If anyone needs more growth it's JESS. I have high hopes for this sister arc, because for as much as each story revolves around her as the main character, I don't feel like she's evolved much at all.

I totally agree with this. I don't understand why season 2 continues to get all the praise, when this last string of episodes has raised the caliber again IMO (although this wasn't my favorite). Most of the arguments people use just don't even make sense to me, especially ones involving Nick and Jess. The end of…

The whole thing served a much larger purpose though, and that was helping to explain why in 3 years we haven't heard about Jess' sister.

The writing for Schmidt hasn't been great this season, but I find Max completely overacting and taking things way over the top.

Yeah, he did say that, but it was BEFORE Jess told him about the fact that she had been in jail. And then once she told him, he related to her reasons why she might be embarrassed and that was the end of it. I think it was just a way to showcase Jess' feelings towards her sister, which also help to explain why she…

The Bar Mitzvah was too weird and random. And Lovitz should be funny. WHY ISN'T HE?!?!

Lovitz is just not funny. I don't know why he isn't, but he doesn't work with this show at all. I just sit there feeling uncomfortable.

I think they've found a good balance between the two extremes of season 1 and 2.

For me it was FINALLY seeing Jess be "real" about something. She clearly has has a lot of conflict with her sister and her sister's behavior probably had a huge impact on her childhood. I was just glad to see Jess confronting some of that, even if it was just her admitting that she was hiding her family's black…

I thought she was too (regarding F&G), but I think it was because we were supposed to find the emotional connection to her character AND find her funny. I think the main character in a show sometimes ends up the least developed because of it. I'm really finding it that way with Jess too. They've developed someone…

He comes in and nails each line so flawlessly, that I think we'd start to be disappointed if he had longer monologues at once. It wouldn't have the same effect and we'd start scratching our heads like I know I've been doing with Schmidt a lot lately.

The show manages SUCH an impressive list of guest stars all the time, that sometimes an episode is almost too much to take in. I wasn't really loving all the Bar Mitzvah scenes, but at least this show is always self-aware; Schmidt's monologues have been borderline annoying lately. I disagree with everyone saying…

Not that she wasn't excellent on Mad Men, but this is exactly her kind of comedy.

I really can't see Emily pulling off this kind of comedy. I did love Linda though.

From the birthday episode on, I do feel like something would be missing from the episodes if Coach weren't around, so I think he's FINALLY starting to fit in as the season progresses. I'm still not crazy about his loud, cartoon yelling though, although they've toned it down considerably. I actually don't mind…

Most of the first season was way too over the top for me. Jess was…..too much. Awkwardness is one thing, but childishness is another. I felt like the story line with Russell matured her enough to at least believably be able to function as an adult on her own. LOL!!

I still wish they would have left out the triangle, had Schmidt continue to date Elizabeth for a couple episodes (I know she's on NJ), and then have Elizabeth dump him HARD/break his heart. They could have gotten to the same place where we see Schmidt reverting a little, but without ruining his character. He still…

And both those shows stretch reality so far, that you aren't going to ever relate to them on an emotional level. They're only there to make you laugh. Which is FINE. We all think different things are funny. You just can't have it both ways. (although yes, AR and NG, possibly Parks and Rec come close) You can't…

They did what they do best here, they took a common idea/perception and added a truth behind it that we don't always get to see played out. Sure, we've all seen the "crazy ex" thing done before, but then we got to see why people IRL DO look "crazy". There's real emotion and pain behind those actions. I loved…

The stories they tried to tackle all at once at the beginning of the season set them up for some rough times from the start. A new relationship, 4 of 6 characters dealing with cheating all at once, the addition of a new character…… I don't think it really could have gone any other way than it did in the that first…