When we left the on-going saga of the “New Girl” characters Nick and Jess, Jess had runaway from Nick and Nick was finding new success being a writer. Spoilers ahead. And here we go.
This episode involves Jess about to tell Nick she wants to give their relationship another chance, but at a reading of his book he tells fans that the two main characters based upon him and her will never get together. His audience of teen readers are instantly crushed as he goes into an explanation about how adult relationships are complicated and he can’t force second chances between characters based on real people.
Heartbroken by his explanation, Jess pretends she is not back in L.A. and hides out at the house of Schmidt and Cece. She makes plans to move away and be away from the complicated adult relationship. She also get involves in the Winston and Aly B story about contacting Winton’s dad. “You can move with me to Portland!” Jess tells them and Winston responds with a resounding no. “Portland hella white”. All of this goes on through the chaos of discovering that Cece is pregnant and everyone accidentally found out before Cece.
Meanwhile, Schmidt goes with Nick to meets an editor and publisher interested in the Pepperwood Chronicles. The editor is more willing to make the deal if Nick kills off Jess’s character in the next book, a moment that makes Nick run to find the real-life Jess.
The episode does have a happy ending for what no one was sure would be the show finale (they get one more season). But I’m more focused on the interactions between Nick and the publisher that signs him. Their first encounter is very unprofessional and Nick downright rude.
Then when they have the meeting in the man’s office, Nick tells him in no uncertain terms that all of the publisher’s ideas are bad and asks if he’s ever done this before?
Yet, in the final season they are in business together. Pepperwood as a series became so popular that Nick’s publisher and his husband accompany Nick and Jess on European book tour! How? How would that possibly be a thing? How would any agent, publisher, or editor ever once allow a writer to speak to them like that and in up in business together for three years? I thought this show was supposed to take place in the real world, not cuckoo-bananas writers do whatever they want world.
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