Once again I found New Girl
thoroughly enjoyable this week. The highlight of this episode for me was
definitely Nick’s storyline where he was dealing with the fact that his con
artist dad, Walt, had unexpectedly come to town for a visit and was teaming up
with Jess to buy a horse, while Jess was determined to play peacemaker between
them.
I know I’ve said this
before, but one thing that I feel the writers have always done a really great job
of is writing the relationship between Jess and Nick. While this episode didn’t
really address the whole will they or won’t they dynamic of their relationship,
I feel like it did a really good job demonstrating how much they really care
about each other even though they are just friends at this point. Nick was
furious that his dad had come town since his father’s con artist ways have been
causing him problems his entire life, and he got even more upset when his dad
persuaded Jess to buy a horse with him, which they named A Father’s Love, after
Walt told her a made up story about Nick wanting a horse his entire life. In
terms of the writers showing how Jess cares about Nick, the same could
definitely be said Jess’ behavior in this episode since she was determined to
play peacemaker between Nick and Walt.
I have to say that I like
that Nick pointed out to both Jess and his father that Jess has the tendency to
be very naive and that she believes almost anything that people tell her
sometimes. He proved this by telling her that his name was actually Jamil,
which she immediately believed, prompting him to quickly tell her that his name
wasn’t Jamil and that she was being too trusting of his father. The whole thing
with the writers really emphasizing the idea that Jess is too quick to believe
almost anything people tell her at times in this episode felt very true to the
way the writers have always written the character Jess, in my personal opinion.
Apparently the reason why
Walt wanted to buy the horse was because he wanted to sell horse semen to
people Dubai, because it’s apparently very valuable and worth a lot of money
there. I don’t know if that’s actually true, but either way that’s just…gross.
For a part of the episode the characters were saying the word semen so many
times that it seemed like the writers were trying to create a drinking game for
the viewers watching the episode where they would take a shot every time
someone said the word semen when they wrote this episode.
This episode once again
reminded me of why I view Jake Johnson as the true breakout star of show, which
I discussed in my review of last week’s episode (My thoughts on episode 2x12 “Cabin”). I feel like Jake
stole every scene that he was in, especially the scene where Nick and Walt were
trying to sell the horse to several guys and Nick pretended to have a diabetic
reaction to some gum after the men insisted that he take his pants and shirt
off because they thought he might be wearing a wire under his clothes in order
to record their conversation. The writers did a really good job of setting up
Nick’s behavior in that scene by mentioning that Nick starts sweating a lot
when he’s lying and how his father used to have him pretend that he was having
diabetic reaction as a way to get out of a business deal that wasn’t going very
well when he was a kid.
