This was another interesting season. Nick (Jake Johnson) and Jess (Zooey Deshanel) had some of the best kissing scenes on TV this year, and that includes my favorite couples from The Middle. Hot was an understatement. Then they slept together. We also saw how the various characters, including Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Winston (Lamorne Morris) and CeCe (Hannah Simone) lost their virginities. We also met the great character of Schmidt's first girlfriend, Elizabeth (Merrit Wever) who loved Schmidt back before he lost weight.
On the other hand, CeCe is getting married Shivrang (Satya Bhabha), though she and Schmidt dated in the first season and until Elizabeth was introduced, I was hoping that the two would get back together. That's the problem, Schmidt can't decide between Elizabeth and CeCe and neither can I.
The finale involved CeCe's wedding which Schmidt decided to sabotage which included scaring the horse, playing a loud song and finally letting a badger loose in the air ducks above their heads. Jess is furious when she finds out about the events that have been occurring, and though Nick tried in vain to stop them, she still believes that he's behind them, and gets mad at him, never mind everything her dad (Rob Reiner) said about him.
However, Jess finds out from Schmidt, who finally admits that they went too far, that Nick only recently joined in with the pranks and tries to take back her cruel words. In other words, she winds up in the air ducks as well, falling out of them with Nick and badger in tow. She tries to save the wedding, but CeCe says that she doesn't want the wedding to be saved as there is another person. Her fiance is also fine with that and professes his love for Elaine, aka Taylor Swift, in a fascinating cameo role. She does get one of the best lines of the episode, "Will you take me away from this madness?" And he literally carries her out of the wedding.
Nick decides to pull the plug on his relationship with Jess, and immediately heads out to the bar to drink his troubles away. Winston finally bursts out of the air ducks, bleeding from the badger bite, he says that there are other moves.
Nick runs after Jess and she doesn't want to pull the plug and they drive off into the starry night. Yes, I love these romantic endings. On the other hand, Elizabeth and CeCe literally made Schmidt pick between the two of them, considering she did call off her wedding because of him and even apologized to Elizabeth about the whole thing, but he can't decide and runs away from both of them.
The season ended strongly, considering I didn't really like the first half of the season, not that there was anything wrong with Jess's tall, doctor boyfriend, Sam (David Walton), but once she and Nick kissed, the chemistry was back. The series is far from perfect, with Winston getting some horribly crappy plot lines, but the guest stars truly shine, and I'm looking forward to season three much more than I was for season two. Season: B+, Finale: A-
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