“I gotta tell my best friend I’m in love with her.”

New Girl (2011-2018)

In addition to Nick's shoulder squeeze, I am also currently obsessed with his face as he stops the elevator and his determined walk toward her. He knows what he wants and he's going to go get her.

Thoughts on the New Girl finale

- Imagine that The Pepperwood Chronicles would play such a big part of this season, that it would make Nick into a writer and also bring him and Jess back together. I would have never imagined. I wonder what will happen with the bar now though – we haven’t seen Nick work there for such a long time. - It was so obvious that this episode was written by Liz Meriwether – it felt like the real, genuine New Girl was back that we all fell in love with in the first Place. Liz has to come back and write for season 7, she just HAS to!! - I can’t believe how quickly Aly has become a part of the gang – she just fits in completely with the rest of the guys. I really really hope she becomes a regular. - Aly found out Winston’s dad (what’s with New Girl and the guys’ dad issues by the way??) and Winston had the courage to call him – that was SO brave. Also so sweet, because he did it to inspire Jess to be brave too. - Max Greenfield really rocked this episode – he went from being Nick’s sincere, encouraging best friend to the hilarious one-liner Schmidt we all know and love: “Winston, stop calling, I’m on social media!!” (Schmidt making Snapchat bunny-faces) - I can’t tell you how impressed I am with Jake’s acting in this episode – we FINALLY saw some revelation in Nick. In just one episode, Jake took the audience on a journey from being oblivious and scared of admitting his feelings for Jess, to realization and determination and enlightenment. It was all in his eyes – I got goosebumps from just looking at them. - This was such a great ensemble episode with just the right amount of screen time for everyone, and almost everyone interacting with everyone. And we got to see Sadie again, yay!! - The parking spot parallel to Cece’s pregnancy was so well executed by Lamorne and Nasim – their sparkling eyes when they congratulated Cece to finding the last spot was…EVERYTHING. - Schmidt standing in the midst of thousands of flowers in their new home, telling Cece they are pregnant was just so…beautiful and romantic and unexpected – and so New Girl. - And….NESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I can’t believe this finally happened – Nick and Jess are back together y’all!!!!! I would have wished for more screen time together with Jake and Zooey, but I chose to believe this episode is the bridge to a well-deserved season 7, so we have many good things awaiting us! - Season 7 premiere speculation: opening credits with Nick and Jess making out in the loft couch, not being able to take their hands off each other. Winston complaining from the kitchen: “Get a ROOM guys – you’ve been acting like this all summer, don’t you ever get tired of sucking each other’s faces??” KEEP FAITH FOR A SEASON 7, ROOM FRIENDS!!! And please please keep tweeting FOX and commenting on FB and IG with #reNewGirl!

I agree with all of this 100%.  I know some people have been critical of Jake’s acting in the past couple seasons and even guessing that he seemed checked out of the show, but I think last night’s episode confirmed that it was solely the material that made it seem that way.  I think Jake has always thought that Nick was in love with Jess so he was having a hard time playing a character that was being written as not showing those feelings.  I have a feeling that season 7 will feature a return to the Nick/Jake Johnson that we all know and love.