New Girl: What Nick And Jess Taught Me About Relationships

Scully and Mulder never gave in. And it lasted nine seasons. We wanted to believe.

Earlier this month “New Girl” announced that Jessica Biel will Late in the first season, Jess begins dating the father of one of her students.

When New Girl first hit the airwaves in , it was billed as being all about Jess Zooey Deschanel , a quirky teacher trying to figure out her life after a serious breakup by moving into a Los Angeles loft apartment with three dysfunctional men. If there were any doubts about which character was the primary focus of the show, the opening credits did their best to dispel them, with the male characters acting as stagehands while Jess sang and mugged for the camera.

But this season of New Girl has proved how much that can disable storylines and characters, and how sitcoms might benefit from drastically shaking things up. The show has always thrived on unpredictability. It worked better than it should have, partly because Deschanel and Johnson had tremendous chemistry, but it also unsurprisingly robbed the show of its dramatic tension.

So a year later Meriwether broke them up, an equally surprising move considering the popularity of the pairing. Which leads to Megan Fox. Since breaking up Nick and Jess, New Girl has leaned hard into its status quo as a wacky sitcom about somethings struggling to master life.