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“New Girl” – Mars Landing (3.20) episode review

March 26, 2014

Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) discuss their future together. Technically speaking, this was a strong episode of New Girl. It was tightly written, allowed moments for all of the characters...

“New Girl” – Fired Up (3.19) episode review

Ally Johnson

March 12, 2014

Jess (Zooey Deschanel) gets Coach (Damon Wayans Jr.) a job at her school. The difficulty I’ve found recently with writing about New Girl is how utterly formulaic it becomes after a number of episodes pass...

“New Girl” – Sister III (3.18) episode review

Ally Johnson

March 5, 2014

Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) decide to move in together. We’ve reached the third and final installment of the sister saga and of course it ends up being the strongest of the bunch, final...

“New Girl”- Sister II (3.17) episode review

Ally Johnson

February 26, 2014

Abby (Linda Cardellini) causes more trouble in this week's "New Girl." Two episodes now have been dedicated to the introduction of Jess’s sister Abby, and I still am not sold. To try and not simply re-...

“New Girl” – Exes (3×15) episode review

Ally Johnson

February 5, 2014

This episode it’s all about the exes and how once you’ve broken up, it’s hard to keep them in your life. Unless you’re Jess of course. Nick and Jess were at a farmers market where they ran into Caroline...

“New Girl” – Prince (3.14) episode review

Ally Johnson

February 4, 2014

We knew there was going to have to be more than glitz and glamour—and yes Prince—in the post-Super Bowl episode of New Girl but did we expect an “I love you?" And did we expect it from Nick? I’m not so sur...

“New Girl”- Birthday (3.13) episode review

Ally Johnson

January 23, 2014

It’s Jessica Day’s birthday in this week’s episode of New Girl and Nick has a fantastic surprise in store for her. Jess, however, has a bad history of birthday celebrations, not because there’s ever been a...

“New Girl” – Basketball (3.12) episode review

Ally Johnson

January 15, 2014

I enjoy New Girl for a number of reasons. I’ve long enjoyed Zooey Deschanel, I think the cast and their chemistry is fantastic, Nick Miller is a hilariously unique leading man character, the writing is smart,...

“New Girl” – Clavado En Un Bar (3.11) episode review

Ally Johnson

January 8, 2014

Who would have thought we’d have an episode that portrayed Nick Miller as the one character who’s fully content in his career? Not this girl, but boy am I happy they did. As a welcome back episode this wee...

“New Girl” – Thanksgiving III (3×10) episode review

Ally Johnson

December 2, 2013

The gang decides to hold Thanksgiving outside in this weeks episode. People voluntarily go camping in November? Seriously, a camping trip? As the girl who has learned to develop a brisk walking pace from po...

“New Girl” – Longest Night Ever (3.09) episode review

Ally Johnson

November 20, 2013

There were three primary duos in this week’s episode of New Girl, “Longest Night Ever”: there was Nick and Winston who worked but it was more of a stepping stone to allow the next pairing, Jess and Schmidt, t...

“New Girl”- Menus (3.08) episode review

Ally Johnson

November 13, 2013

To introduce the episode, this was the synopsis the came up when I clicked "info" for this episode on my television: “The roommates embark on a series of adventures after a large number of Chinese takeout ...

“New Girl”- Coach (3.07) episode review

Ally Johnson

November 6, 2013

It’s incredible how little things turn into big things in the television fanatics circle. When it was announced that Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, would be guest starring on cult favorite Commun...