Last night's episode of New Girl saw the introduction of Jess's sister, Abby. I must say, I like Abby. She is the wild child of the Day family, and Jess had to pick her up from jail. When Nick hears about it, he wants to meet her. Jess doesn't want that to happen. Jess and Abby (played by Linda Cardellini) have very good chemistry with one another. I am 50/50 on Cardellini staying on for more episodes, though, mainly because the writers seemed lost on what to do with CeCe and Winston. Their story was thrown into the episode tonight. There was a mention of a dinner party with his girlfriend Beatie until everyone except Coach and CeCe bailed. They weren't heard of again until the last part of the episode for about two minutes, at which point the writers cleaned up Cece and Coach's brief fling. Nick and Scmidt meanwhile, were at a bat mitzvah trying to get Schmidt with a girl. This was a funny story. Nick and Schmidt got back to their wing man days, with Nick wing manning for Schmidt, and we got to see some hilarious throwbacks to their old attempts. Just flat out funny. I also enjoyed Jon Lovitz's cameo. Brief, but fit in the story and was also funny. This was a solid episode meant to introduce Jess' sister. It was one of the best episodes in a while.
Highlights:
- Nick and Schmidt wing man throwbacks
- Linda Cardellini
- Schmidt talking with Lovitz