New Girl: “Cabin”

You’ve got to love the charm. New Girl is so locked into a groove right now of being able to balance ridiculous situations and silly behavior while also making us care about the relationships that Jess, Nick, Schmidt, and Winston try and form not just with their love interests but, maybe more importantly, with each other.

By establishing the bonds so well that these people truly care for one another then, at the end of the day, it’s really fun to just watch Winston mess with Schmidt for his “white guilt.” And even when a resolution is more somber, like Nick getting dumped by a girl he really liked, Jess is there to let him know it was the right thing for him and we all know things will eventually be okay.

The writing was on the wall from the beginning that this wasn’t going to end well for Nick, but unlike how in some shows it doesn’t make any sense for a person to be with someone clearly wrong for them, you can totally understand why Nick would be accepting of someone like Angie at this point in his life. If you ever describe your relationship as “pure anarchy in like a sexy, cool way” or it gets described to you as: “she’s cool, it’s kind of like riding a poorly maintained carnival ride,” then it’s probably not going to work out. But the ride was fun while it lasted and Olivia Munn did a great job playing an eccentric.

Schmidt trying to make Winston feel “more at home” with his black roots was spectacularly fun to watch. It’s great that we’ve just come to expect that Schmidt will go 100% behind any idea he has and follow it through no matter what the stakes. Even if that means helping Winston get his fix of crack cocaine. Nick and Cece got a brief second for this story and Jake Johnsons facial expressions win again as disgust is written so well over his face when he’s forced to listen to Schmidt talk about Winston being black. Great stand-alone story and it’s nice to see the show keeping continuity of Winston struggling with either going to little or going too far with a prank.

Other favorite moments:

• “You were so light and charming. You were like Pixar Winston.” - Schmidt in response to seeing Winston with other black people.
• “Schmidt I could really go for some crack.” - a deadpan Winston.
• “Word games. Word games, word games, word games.” - Jess on absinthe.
• “Dr. Sam, if you were a hat you’d be a top hat.” - Nick on absinthe.
• New Girl has established a very high track record for drunk adventures now with this absinthe incident and True American from its past.
• Only Schmidt could tick someone off by ordering a vanilla-chocolate swirl.

What did everyone else think? Comments are always welcome.