New Girl really fell off a cliff there at the end

Fiancé and I have been watching it over the past few months in the evenings and we just finished last night. I had never watched it start to finish. Overall, it’s a good show and I think the name doesn’t fit the show.

First few seasons were great, but I think it started to decline around season five, going into season six, ultimately culminating with the complete disaster that is season seven. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a show fall off a cliff quite like new girl did in it’s the seventh and final season season. The show was basically unwatchable at the end, they seemed to gut all of the good characters. Schmidt became a background character. Cece, who was never and will never be funny, became one of the most prominent characters. Nick was good up until season 7 and even had a couple classic moments during that season, but it was almost like a completely different character. Winston is basically the only character that didn’t change and he certainly saved the finale. The prank was an incredible ending.

I think the most annoying part was for the first five or so seasons, it wasn’t political. There would be minor comments here and there (Outside of the presidential election episode) but overall the focus was elsewhere. Season 7 was just propaganda out of a fire hose in every scene. Schmidt and Cece flipping gender roles, naming their kid after Ginsburg, the woman empowerment birthday party, Jess telling the dude who hired her to essentially be a secretary that they are “equals” and him agreeing. The entire season was just silly, like they knew the show was ending so they wanted to throw in as much propaganda as possible with their fate already decided.