Honestly, during the scene where they were both missing one another going into and out of the building, I thought, "Oh, they're gonna save this episode. Nick and Jess are going to remember how irritating and unproductive they are when they're together and make the right choice." But no. Nope. Just a very unearned…

"Pointing to the first episode of this season and saying "Megan Ganz wrote that one so shut up" isn't helping dude." - Good thing my post doesn't say, then. Like, at all.

"Frank's Brother" was written by David Hornsby (Rickety Cricket) and "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell" were written by Rob, Glenn, and Hornsby. In addition to writing this episode, Ganz has also served as Co-Executive Producer on 5 episodes this season, including the season's excellent debut.

i've been looking out for the review, too, because i thought this week's episode was very good. possibly a defining moment for the show.

thank you for pointing this our. i thought she did a great job of conveying precisely the emotions the reviewer notice during the bookstore freak out, it's just that people don't like those emotions (even though they're much more true to how people really are with one another.)

they definitely have chemistry. the blackout episode demonstrated that. i think the reason for what you're picking up on is two-fold: 1. nick and reagan's chemistry mostly takes place offscreen because reagan is a much more private, reserved character than jess and so not as demonstrative in the group setting, which…

reagan routinely challenges herself for nick. her whole inclusion into the gang is a huge step outsider of her comfort zone. she got over her weirdness about relationships for him, invited him to go to new orleans with her, and has made career decisions based on their relationship. the show has done a good job of…

i feel the same way. i'm very resistant to re-shipping jess and nick. i like reagan. i think she balances the group's outward wackiness, but also complements them in her own subtle ways. plus, she's sacrificed a lot for nick! she invited him to new orleans, she's made career decisions based on their relationship, she…

"hello, models." "*confused* i'm a lawyer…" and nadia's, "if it runs, i catch it." are two of the funniest, subtlest new girl moments.

i think that what you're saying is fair. in the finale, the writers reduced reagan's role to a plot device. but i think that has something to do with re-balancing the ensemble. reagan's not in the loft anymore, so she gets the same level of screen time as sam or coach or any other of the ancillary signifiant others…

i really don't get the hate for reagan. i think the nick-reagan pairing is completely in-keeping with the show's philosophy on relationships. the show stresses couples that work because the two people are so different: cece and schmidt, coach and may, winston and aly. jess and nick are different, but they are also…

i've always seen nick's character as willfully dumb and only in an outward way, so i take all of his ultra-dumb moments with an extreme grain of salt. you can tell that in his dealings with his friends he has a high level of interpersonal and emotional intelligence, and he damn-near graduated law school, so you know…

it's not nick's arc, right now. i think the writers sense, in my opinion correctly, that the nick-jess relationship resulted in some over-saturation. they both stopped being funny. this season, the focus is more on schmidt & cc and winston's love life, and nick gets to just be funny again. i thought he was hilarious…

i think this show's problem is that, aside from garrett, every character is unlikeable. they're either rotten to one another and petty, or they're overly weird and off-putting.