Season Analysis: Season 2 of New Girl toned down the quirkiness (which was never really that big a part of the show anyway) to become this pleasant, low-key show that anyone can enjoy.

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“Cooler”
I had been a little wary about the Jess/Nick will they/won’t they leading to the two actually getting together, not because I thought they didn’t have enough chemistry, but because will they/won’t they’s have been done so many times on TV already, such that I did not know if New Girl could possibly have anything new to say about it.  But when Nick Miller passionately kissed Jess Day (and then did a whole lot more post-“Cooler”), those concerns faded away.  Those concerns may not have been answered, exactly, but they did not have to be.  The kiss was a chillingly soundless scene, with Nick’s “I meant something like that” punctuating the silence.  Maybe a few years later, we will have settled on the meaning of Jess/Nick (Jick? Ness?) in the Will They?/Won’t They? Pantheon, but for now we can just go gaga over how romantic the kiss was and how beautifully it was staged.