Since the dawn of time, mankind has struggled to answer one single question above all others:

Can exes ever really be friends?

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Just kidding: I'm sure at the dawn of time, people were much more concerned with figuring out what the sun was, or the temperature at which you needed to cook mastodon meat at in order to not die from eating it.

But the question of exes and friendship has preoccupied us for many of the post-mastodon years, and finally New Girl Season 3 Episode 15 came in with a definitive answer, in one of the best episodes of New Girl Season 3: no, no, absolutely not.

And if you have a happy new relationship, why would you even want to? Phew! What a weight off my shoulders! Now, I can finally go back to thinking about mastodon meat.

And some more happy news: after a sluggish start to the season, New Girl has been (very) slowly finding its way back to the sharp-but-goofy comedy that made New Girl Season 2 such a delight.

In this half hour, I think they finally made it home: the excellent New Girl quotes flew fast and furious, Schmidt was the Schmidt-iest he's been in months and the episode utilized techniques like flashbacks without becoming completely dependent on them.

But perhaps most importantly, this episode - along with New Girl Season 3 Episode 14 - proved that the show can squeeze comedy out of Jess and Nick's total and utter commitment to each other.

Which, when you think about it, is a pretty big deal; I'm hard-pressed to think of a sitcom with a couple on it that doesn't rely on some "will they or won't they?" tension to keep it spicy, or some marital disgust to keep things from being too mushy (Modern Family, I am looking HARD in your direction).

In fact, I was worried for a while that it might be an undoable feat - that this show had burnt itself out by getting Nick and Jess together too soon, and in that act doomed itself (instead of, you know, stringing us along for 10 agonizing seasons with the "will they or won't they" stuff like some friendly hit sitcoms that I could name ).

But New Girl did the undoable. It did so by facing down every single possible source of relationship tension in this episode, easily extinguishing all of them and showing itself to be perhaps the funniest show in recent memory about passionately committed monogamous love. You crazy kids/show! You're gonna make it after all!

But surely you've heard just about enough about successful relationships - after all, everyone knows that the failed ones are what's really interesting.

So, what do you think: Can exes ever really be friends?

Jess thinks that exes can be friends. Jess thinks that exes should be friends.

In fact, in New Girl Season 3 Episode 15, Jess thinks that Nick should be friends with his ex-girlfriend, the tightly wound Caroline.

In fact, Jess thinks her ex, Berkley (Adam Brody), should be the one to teach Nick to be friends with his own ex.

What could possibly go wrong? Oh, what was that? Literally everything? Literally everything in the world could go wrong with this plan?

Well, you're right, gentle reader--in what might just be the best half hour of New Girl Season 3 so far, Nick and Jess deftly probe the horror that can only come from trying to befriend an ex.

But don't take our word for it: watch New Girl online, and see if you don't end up deleting some old numbers from your phone book.

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How exactly does one become the most adorkable woman in America?

After recovering from a late 2013 flirtation with mediocrity, a fit and fierce New Girl Season 3 endeavored to answer that question this week in one of the season's funniest episodes.

And according to  New Girl Season 3 Episode 16, the road to adorkability begins by growing up in the shadow of a delinquent and eyeliner-soaked older sister.

Tonight's half-hour marked the debut of former ER and Freaks and Geeks star Linda Cardellini as Abby, Jess's mess of an older sister, who is slated to star in a multi-episode arc.

Abby is not only an entertaining train wreck in all the usual entertaining train wreck ways (boundary issues, hotel bar trickery, excellent earrings), but provides an interesting insight into how Jess Day became the gluten-free cupcake of a human being that we know and love today.

And even if Abby and her amazing hoop earrings stepped straight out of "troubled bad girl" central casting, her existence provides some much needed insight into Jess's development as a character. Yes, you too might want to surround yourself with sunshine and lollipops well into your early thirties if you life involved bailing your sister out of jail on the regular. It all finally makes (some) sense.

Abby's appearance was also a more realistic-than-usual stress on Nick and Jess's relationship, rather than the wild flights of romantic-tension-fancy this show sometimes sails on.

Though the "kooky sister" is an easy narrative card to pull, it also establishes that the show is once again committed to telling stories about its characters that go a little deeper, like New Girl Season 2 Episode 20's expedition to Nick's childhood home. And that's nothing but good news for a show like this that falters when it gets too superficial

This episode also saw what felt like the final and full absorption of Coach into the ensemble machinery. His work at Bertie's dinner party with Cece was as dynamic, neurotic, and fun as any of the New Girl quotes to come out of Nick Miller's mouth this week. It was both a triumph, and a relief. I'm so happy to no longer be holding my breath for this show.

So New Girl is back on top. But will things stay that way? Will the show be able to resist that alluring siren-song of low-stakes plot devices and too many flashbacks that held it hostage for the first half of the season? And, most importantly,

Is Jess's sister really that bad?

How do you become the most adorkable girl on the block?

Well, as New Girl Season 3 Episode 16 showed, it helps to have a totally troubled sister (Linda Cardellini), who always expects you to bail her out of trouble and scares you with her criminal ways.

Add in one mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) who thinks you're the "good one," and a compulsive need to please so that no one confuses you with your angry, outlaw sis, and bam! You're Jessica Day.

Okay, it might not be that simple (results with your own grown-up delinquent sister may very).

But watch New Girl online, and I swear you'll see the connection between being a cupcake-loving cutie and having a sister who starts fights in jail. Watch it with a sister you love and/ or are terrified of!

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They may appear on some of our favorite shows, and they may even have their shining moments.

Overall, though, they sort of make us want to throw our television sets out the window.

It's rarely the faults of the actors or actresses behind these characters, it's just that they don't belong on the show in the first place. Or they're worn out their welcome. Or they just... won't... stop.... whining.

These irritating individuals are lawyers, witches and super agents; they are young and they are old. But they have one thing in common:

They are super annoying! Flip through the following photo gallery and decide if you agree with us and/or who you would add to this list from across the TV dial:

12 Characters That Make Us Want to Punch the TV

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1. Laurel Lance

Consider us proud members of Team Felicity. Laurel is more often than not a (very pretty) thorn in Oliver's side.

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Consider us proud members of Team Felicity. Laurel is more often than not a (very pretty) thorn in Oliver's side.

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2. Skye

Skye is new to the Agents of SHIELD team. But we're sort of sick of her being used as a conduit for the audience when it comes to explaining how this universe works.

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3. Dr. Alan Farragut

Dr. Alan Farragut acts like the man in charge on Helix. But he doesn't seem to actually really now anything.

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4. Charlotte Grayson

Revenge has already rid us of Declan. Can't his ex-girlfriend be next?

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5. Alexis Castle

From bringing home Pi to sleep on the sofa for weeks on end without ever asking if it's okay... to slamming the door in her father's face when he came to apologize... Alexis is experiencing major growing pains.

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6. Ted Mosby

When did this lovable goofball become such an annoying whiner? If he's not lamenting about not finding the love of his life, he's see-sawing over whether or not he and Robin should try and make it work again.

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7. Bonnie Bennett

Has Bonnie Bennett smiled in three seasons? This Vampire Diaries character is either moping or swooping in with random spells to save the day.

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8. Scarlett O'Connor

Scarlett has a whiney little girl voice, can't handle the career she chose... now she's getting addicted to speed. She also dared to yell at Connie Britton!

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9. Evan Lawson

Evan Lawson of Royal Pains has really been wearing on us the past few seasons. He just never seems to grow up or get any smarter.

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10. Coach

We all love Damon Wayans Jr. But just because he appeared on one episode of New Girl a long time ago doesn't mean we want him back on a full-time basis, disrupting our favorite loft.

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11. Girls

Yup, every single Girl. Can someone remind us why these people are friends again?

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12. Gloria Pritchett

STOP SCREAMING ALL THE TIME!

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Never have the lyrics to New Girl's theme song seemed quite as loaded as they did in New Girl Season 3 Episode 17, where they applied to Abby Day as much as they did her more mild-mannered sister. Hey girl, whatcha doing? Probably something sexual and horrifying with Schmidt--and on a communal cooking surface, no less. Who's that girl? It's AGGGGGH.

In this second part of a three episode arc that included New Girl Season 3 Episode 16, we went deeper with Abby, the nefarious Jessica Wakefield to Jess's innocent Elizabeth (yes, the Wakefields of "Sweet Valley" fame were twins, but just go with me on this).

We went so deep, in fact, that Abby actually started to seem like an alternate reality version of Jess, when you think about it--both are a smidgen detached from reality, love trickery, dress in a manner that seems incompatible with traditional full-time work, etc.

But really--is sitting on a car at a museum that different from something New Girl Season 1 Jess would have done? Need I remind you folks about the time when she threw those car keys into the desert?

Oh my god, is Abby some kind of mutated, time-traveling Jess from the past? Sent to warn us about...war? Famine? Schmidt's troubling sexual habits?

Probably not. But clearly, Jamie Lee Curtis and Rob Reiner made some very questionable, but very intriguing, parenting choices along the way with these two, and the characters are pure pleasure to watch together.

Though Abby was dropped into the New Girl eco-system rather suddenly, she almost immediately became an enjoyable part of it, because there was no pressure on the viewer to like her. Which, ironically, made her much easier to like (this was the opposite of my own experience with Coach's similar crash-landing in the beginning of New Girl Season 3).

Abby functions as a much-needed bad idea tornado on a show that's still good, but has grown a bit sedate. Now that Jess is semi-sensible, Cece's depressed, and Schmidt is off weirding around his own apartment, away from our prying eyes, who will stir the pot? Who will make the entertaining mistakes? Who will do the things that would totally get you arrested in the real world? Who's that girl? IT'S ABBY!

Though I assume Abby will be departing our screens for greener pastures/ mandatory minimum sentencing soon, I do wish she could stay. For all her ungrounded outrageousness, she made a great foil for Jess and I think her character could develop into a real multi-faceted high-wire-act of a human being. Imagine the adventures we could have with Abby! She could get into fistfights at the bar! She could get into fisfights at Coach's gym! Basically, this show just needs more fistfights!

But seriously--Abby had been a great addition as the show has righted itself mid-season. This arc--while as hilarious and clever and New Girl quotes-filled as ever--also comes as close as the show ever has to making a serious statement about growing up: no matter how much we've been able to trick friends and lovers into thinking that we're semi-normal, to our families, we're always going to be the nuts, pathological liars, and control freaks we are in our most vulnerable moments. And struggling to live with and make sense of that knowledge is one of most difficult endeavors of adulthood.

In case that was too serious an ending for you, here is an alternate version: In the words of that classic Eurythmics song, "Sisters/ are doing Schmidt/ for themselves" (yes, that is probably the worst joke I've told in my entire life, but once I thought it up, I couldn't make it go away, and now it is your problem, like the videotape in The Ring. Sorry!)

But enough about my compulsive need to make up parody songs that mash-up 80's pop hits with the plots of popular half-hour comedies:

How will Abby's adventure with the gang end?

As the Saga of Abby marched on in New Girl Season 3 Episode 17, we found out some surprising similarities between the Day sisters:

They both believe their way is the best way, they both are a bit unpredictable, and they are both maybe into some weird sexual stuff.

Of course, Jess's hijinx still aren't getting her thrown in jail or out of museums, so she's got that on her big sis.

But with Abby's new connection with Schmidt, it kind of feels like all bets are off. Will Abby learn to play nice? Or will the entire loft end up in jail alongside Abby sometime soon? Both scenarios seem just about as likely.

Of course, we won't know for sure until next week's conclusion to the three episode arc that also included New Girl Season 3 Episode 16.

Until then, you'll just have to watch New Girl online and place your bets.

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Pop quiz, hot shot: There's a sensible Day sister. But which one is it? Is it law-abiding schoolteacher Jess? Or Abby, who, as implied by one of tonight's New Girl quotes, is a felon who can't legally vote? Who do you pick?

What do you do??

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If you're anything like me, you answered that question wrong - because, in a move that confused everyone (including Abby herself), Abby Day revealed herself to be the more together Day lady in New Girl Season 3 Episode 18.

Reasoning with Jess about her troubled reasons for wanting to shack up with Nick, and moving back to Oregon in order to get her act together, Abby was a regular competent problem solver, a classic older sister, and someone you'd never guess was recently starting jail fights for fun.

It was a good, if predictable, note for Abby to go out on.

The culmination of a three-episode arc that included New Girl Season 3 Episode 16 and New Girl Season 3 Episode 17, this half-hour brought few shocks - I mean, who actually thought Abby was sticking around Loft City to become a permanent bad influence on Schmidt? - but many satisfactions, and a few insights into the weird but well-oiled machine that is the Nick-Jess romance (and perhaps romance itself).

In Nick and Jess, New Girl presents perhaps the most reasonable, low-drama love match depicted on prime-time TV.

Ross and Rachel they're not, and the low stakes of this episode - does it really matter that much if you move your stuff into a room across the hallway from your old room, really? - brought that all the more delightfully home.

Nick and Jess aren't fun to watch because you're a distraction from our hum-drum love lives; they're fun to watch because they ARE our hum-drum love lives, and they help us realize how interesting our little dramas really are.

Is real love about breezing through certain relationship milestones in a timely and dramatic manner? Or is it about being comfortable with each other?

Nick and Jess come down firmly on the latter, a side thoroughly unfashionable for a network sitcom universe where the How I Met Your Mother crew seemed to be proposing to some new stranger every 45 minutes or so for a few years there.

And I love How I Met Your Mother! But New Girl is about the thrills and pleasures of being kind of regular, of finding happiness and excitement in the tiny, day-to-day triumphs of regular love and work and friendship. Even when New Girl detaches from reality a bit (c'mon, Abby totally would have gotten arrested for sitting on that car in New Girl Season 3 Episode 17), it's only in service of proving that the lives we have right under our nose:

The friends we love, the talents and strength we already have, are better and more exciting than any sitcom wackiness we could possibly brew up, if only we'd pay attention to them.

As it rounds the corner towards the season finale, I have to wonder - is New Girl Season 3 the greatest-ever small screen celebration of how funny and compelling our regular lives already are? Perhaps I'll leave that one for Abby Day to decide. But I know I can think of few shows that make me feel more comfortable about my own life than Jess and Co.

Is the secret to lasting love never changing in front of a partner? Is is never daring to wear a male nightgown in front of your girlfriend? Or admitting your need to sing "The Trolley Song" to your boyfriend? And if, so:

Will Nick and Jess make it in a single room?

In a last-second switch that no one saw coming, Abby Day proved herself to be the more sensible sister in New Girl Season 3 Episode 18.

She talked sense to Jess about her troubles living with Nick, reflected honestly on her own failings, and high-tailed it back to Oregon to learn to become self-reliant. How's that for a mid-season twist ending?

Of course, there are many twists still to come - like, is Schmidt really going to move back into the Loft, leaving Nick and Jess stuck in that single room? Is Coach going to be happy keeping it platonic with Cece? And what is going to happen to that storefront that Schmidt rented?

I personally feel these plot threads will all come together, in a glorious/ horrific climax that will probably end with at least one, if not all, members of the Loft Gang living in Schmidt's storefront.

But you'll have to watch New Girl online to find out if I'm right, or just taking my Ambien a little too early in the evening these days (probably the latter, but who knows!)

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Fox has picked up one drama and three comedies for the 2014-2015 season.

The network announced today that The Following and The Mindy Project will both return for a third seasons, New Girl for a fourth and Brooklyn Nine-Nine for a second.

Said Kevin Reilly (Chairman of Entertainment) and Joe Earley (Chief Operating Officer, Fox Broadcasting Company) in a statement:

“These shows are some of the best and acclaimed series on television, with influential, culture-driving stars, and some of the best, most creative talent behind the camera. All four are core assets within our 2014-15 portfolio of content, and we’re really happy to bring them back to our FOX fans for another season.”

Fox had already renewed Sleepy Hollow for Season 2, Glee for Season 6 and Bones for Season 10.

Our 2014-2015 renewal scorecard has been updated accordingly.

Much like the lamp in Schmidt's accidental home furnishings store, New Girl Season 3 Episode 19 was eye-catching, even if it wasn't quite plugged in.

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But anyway, stop talking about lamps! After the epic undertaking that was the "Abby Trilogy" - New Girl Season 3 Episode 16, New Girl Season 3 Episode 17, and New Girl Season 3 Episode 18 - this light half hour was something of a place holder.

But it held that place very well, moving forward some plot points that had gotten dropped in the Abby tornado (Jess is a vice principal now! Nick is maybe a lawyer again!), dropping in some killer New Girl quotes, and re-introducing a lot of unexpectedly Looney Tunes-style physical humor (Nick on the bicycle, Jess getting hit in the head with the volleyball over and over) which New Girl Season 3 has been light on.

However, I'm most excited about the expanding universe of Jess's school - especially the creepy biology teacher, played with slimy aplomb by Brian Posehn - which represents a new and exciting playground for the show to develop in (since it basically has only 2 other backdrops, just like a Barbie playset).

The school represents not just a new set of wacky situations that the gang can get into (though I do look forward to the inevitable episode where everyone gets locked in a broom closet together), but a place to reveal new sides of Jess, a chance to flesh her out even more as a character.

Though her professional life has always been an element of the show, the school's increased profile represents an opportunity to have her work and personal lives collide, creating some much-needed dramatic friction.

At home, she's a sweet goof, but at work she's an authority figure who fixes people's computers? Who is that girl? And how will she reconcile the many contrasting aspects of her personality?

Of course, this could all be just another passing trend. I mean, do you think Jess is cut out for the administrative life? Or is she a sparkly balloon of a woman who needs to be free?

Will Jess stay employed as vice principal?

Who's the boss? It's Jess!

But does it really suit her?

In the short time we saw her wield her vice princi-power in New Girl Season 3 Episode 19, she had to fire Coach, balance the school budget, get yelled at by her boss, and get hit in the head with volleyballs a seriously unhealthy amount of times - not exactly the most thrilling introduction to life at the top.

Will Jess continue her climb to the top of the middle school administrative food chain, stomping everyone else in her way? Probably not. But the only way to know for sure is to watch New Girl online.

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And if you get repeatedly hit in the head with a volleyball, for pete's sake, go see a doctor. That stuff is serious!

Even on a show that frequently delivers the unexpected, New Girl Season 3 Episode 20 seemed intent on raising that bar, delivering the absolute last thing that I (and probably you) expected to see during this half hour.

After 19 episodes of getting along pretty danged well with each other (not to mention two prior years of non-stop sexual tension), JessiNick's end came as suddenly and unexpectedly as their first kiss in New Girl Season 2 Episode 15.

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JessiNick - or were they Nickica? Ness? Jick? Was the lack of a good compound nickname what eventually tore them apart? - ended with not a bang but a whimper, which is perhaps true to real life... but didn't necessarily feel true to the show.

Jess and Nick's break-up seemed less the inevitable product of some obvious incompatibility, and more a function of phenomenon that has plagued New Girl Season 3: lack of dramatic tension.

Which is unfortunate: after floundering through the season's first half, the last few episodes of New Girl  seemed to show that the writers had finally figured out how to create dramatic tension without using Jess and Nick's relationship as a point of friction.

The recent three-episode arc featuring Linda Cardellini as Jess's troubled sister in particular seemed to prove that there was a way to create interesting conflict (and great New Girl quotes) on the show without needing Jess and Nick to be at cross-purposes.

So, where can things possibly go from here?

A reconciliation is clearly in the cards somewhere down the line, not only because these two crazy love birds are meant for each other, but because if they were actually permanently broken up, why the hell would they still be hanging out all the time?

(Yes, yes, Schmidt and Cece, I know, I know... but having two broken-up couples constantly hanging out together would push the limits of reality even further  on this show - and the idea  that a group of at best semi-employed people can all afford such a nice loft has already pushed them pretty far).

But what do you think?

Is this the end for Jess and Nick?

That can't be...it...right?

On New Girl Season 3 Episode 20, we saw a rousing game of 'True American' usher in the beginning of the end - and also the actual end - for JessiNick, in a move as sudden and shocking as their first kiss in New Girl Season 2 Episode 15.

But, I mean, was that the end end? I have my doubts. And not just because is probably super-difficult to break up with someone who lives 15 feet away from you.

But we'll just have to watch New Girl online to see if little Reginald VelJohnson Day-Miller still has a fighting chance of being born. I believe in you, little buddy! I'm rootin' for ya!

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Prepare your DVRs and plan your vacations accordingly, TV Fanatics.

Fox has announced the following season finale air dates for the following programs...

Oscar Nunez and Kerri Kenney are on their way to Fox.

The former Office star and Reno 911! alum will both guest star on the New Girl Season 3 finale, according to TV Guide.

Nunez (pictured), will come on board as a cruise employee who gets involved with a frightened Coach; while Kenney will portray the ship’s captain and attempt to fend the romantic rift between Nick and Jess.

The New Girl Season 3 finale, directed by series creator Liz Meriwether, was shot on location onboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA and will air on May 6.

The series, meanwhile, returns on April 15 and you can watch New Girl online in order to catch up before then.

In the following photo gallery, we promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth:

TV is full of some great lawyers!

Or at least some entertaining lawyers, from those who actually work as bartenders to those who have learned to fight crime outside the courtroom as well as inside of it.

Below, we've compiled a rundown of the small screen attorneys we'd want on our side if we ever needed some legal assistance, keeping the list to one lawyer per show.

Sorry, fans of The Good Wife and Suits. It just wouldn't be fair otherwise... 

11 TV Lawyers Who Raise the Bar

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1. Harvey Specter

Harvey Specter is all about winning. At all costs. No matter what.

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Harvey Specter is all about winning. At all costs. No matter what.

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2. Alicia Florrick

She's come a long way from simply being the State's Attorney's wife. We'd want her on our side for any big case.

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3. David Rosen

David Rosen has been a terrific addition to Scandal. The character is portrayed by Josh Malina.

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4. Nick Miller

He may be serving as a bartender, but he also passed the bar. And proved on a Season 3 New Girl episode that he's still got it... sort of.

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5. Tyne Patterson

She has her sights set on SAMCRO on Sons of Anarchy. We love the club, but we can't exactly blame her, either.

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6. Mitchell Pruitt

He doesn't look like a top-notch lawyer in this Modern Family scene. But he fights for the environment.

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7. Jeff Winger

Drink up, Jeff Winger! Your legal knowledges has come in hand often throughout your travails at Greendale Community College.

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8. David Vasquez

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Vasquez has become a prominent player in the Justified universe.

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9. Jane Bingum

Jane Bingum is at the center of Drop Dead Diva. She's found contentment in her afterlife.

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10. Saul Goodman

The man can launder money with the best of them. But can he carry his own show?

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11. Laurel Lance

A non-profit attorney, Laurel is learning to fight crime outside the courtroom as well as inside of it.

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Like the panicky ex-couple at its center, New Girl seems unsure of what to do with itself these days.

After spending an uneven first half of the season fishing for plot conflicts, New Girl Season 3 started coming together over the last few months, evolving into a clever, sweet paean to the pleasures of being content with a perfectly imperfect romantic relationship.

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New Girl Season 3 Episode 20 blew that conceit up with an out-of-nowhere (and none too sensible) break-up, of course.

But though I was disappointed, I can't have been the only one who thought the break-up would at least herald a return to New Girl Season 2-style emotional pyrotechnics between the series's two star-crossed-ish lovers, the motor that always powered this show.

New Girl Season 3 Episode 21 seemed to be a statement of purpose about what to expect from the post-Ness/ Jick show, and unfortunately, it wasn't a jump back to the show's New Girl Season 2 glory days.

Rather, it seemed like the break-up has made the show hop all the way back to the often confused and convoluted world of New Girl Season 1, where jokes and New Girl quotes often didn't quite connect, plot threads appeared and disappeared at random and deep feelings were conveyed almost exclusively via monologue.

I feel a little bad for ragging on New Girl for reverting to the "Beautiful, Wacky People Having a Hard Time Solving Fairly Simple Problems" plot formula - our entire sitcom culture is built on Beautiful, Wacky People who can barely open a can of tuna, and it has served us very well through the decades, if I do say so.

But New Girl had the opportunity to show us how two of those wacky, beautiful people found each other and stayed together... and I think that they were beginning to succeed at it even.

The show had a chance to step away from the romantic theatrics that typifiy a lot of recent sitcoms (like the last few seasons of How I Met Your Mother) and build unique comedy out of the ways two very different people struggle to build a life together.

It's not just a missed opportunity to break new comedy ground; it's one that I think would have served the show better than putting Nick and Jess on the "break up, make up" carousel that they seem headed for.

It certainly doesn't help that their reasons for breaking up were even more absurd than all those reasons they trotted out over the course of New Girl Season 2 to keep from getting together.

Those two maniacs complemented each other in their madness; a double-Jess or double-Nick relationship seems like an actual waking nightmare (and a terribly boring show).

So tell me:

Where can New Girl possibly go now?

It wasn't just all a hangover-induced hallucination, as we found out in New Girl Season 3 Episode 21: Nick and Jess are most definitely actually broken up.

This will, of course, bring great turmoil to the loft, so Jess and Nick decided to keep a secret the only way they knew how: by dressing up as a cat and taking someone else's prescription medicine, respectively.

Was it a good idea for them to break up? Will it stick? Will the show be able to get by if they just start dating other people and stuff?

The answer to all of these questions is obviously "no." But to know for sure (and to check out Winston in full-on Tom Wolfe/ Colonel Sanders-style dress whites), you'll have to watch New Girl online.

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Wedding bells will ring.

Familiar faces will return.

And special guest stars will make dramatic and/or hilarious appearances.

Indeed, at various points over the next few weeks, your favorite television programs will leave you laughing, gasping and hanging from a cliff following their season finales - and we've got a primer on what to expect from 26 dramas/comedies across the dial.

Consider yourself spoiler warned and click around below for hints on how a number of shows will say goodbye for the summer: 

26 Season Finale Scoops: Spoiler Alert!

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1. The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory wraps up its latest season on Thursday, May 15 and will feature Sheldon meeting a psychic.

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The Big Bang Theory wraps up its latest season on Thursday, May 15 and will feature Sheldon meeting a psychic.

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2. Arrow

The Arrow finale airs on Wednesday, May 14 and fans should expect to see a few familiar faces pop up.

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3. The Blacklist

The Blacklist closes Season 2 on Monday, May 12 with the team reacting to a major death and with viewers learning more about Berlin.

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4. Bones

Bones will end Season 9 on Monday, May 19 with David Boreanaz as director and Booth's future with the FBI in question.

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5. Castle

Castle and Beckett will engage in their final investigation on Monday, May 12 on an episode titled "For Better or Worse." Hmmm... what could that be referring to?

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6. Chicago Fire

Sophia Bush will cross back over to Chicago Fire for the May 13 finale.

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7. Criminal Minds

Look for Criminal Minds to bow out with a two-parter that concludes on May 14 and features the BAU heading to Texas.

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8. CSI

Treat Williams guest stars on the CSI finale, which airs May 7 and features Brass facing a major decision.

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9. The Following

Hardy and Joe actually come together on April 28 to stop Mark and Luke from seriously terrible.

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10. Glee

Brittany will appear on the May 13 finale, which Ryan Murphy has teased will shake Glee up BIG time heading into the final season.

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11. The Good Wife

The Good Wife Season 5 ends on Sunday, May 18. Michael J. Fox will still be around as Louis Canning and an old case will cause problems for Alicia.

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12. Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy fans will say goodbye forever to Cristina Yang on Thursday, May 15. Bring tissues.

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13. Grimm

Monroe and Rosalee get married on the Grimm finale, which airs on Friday, May 16.

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14. Hawaii Five-0

Hawaii Five-0 draws to a close on Friday, May 9. Look for Wo Fat to return... and Nick Jonas, too!

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15. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ends on Tuesday, May 13. Expect explosions, chases and a big-time death.

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16. The Mentalist

Lisbon will face multiple questions on The Mentalist finale, airing May 18: Will she move to D.C.? Will she get engaged to Pike?

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17. Modern Family

Modern Family airs a two-part finale that is centered around Cam and Mitch getting married.

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18. NCIS

The NCIS finale (May 13) will be a special tribute to Ralphe Waite, as Gibbs heads home due to news of his father passing.

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19. NCIS: Los Angeles

Callen and Sam must find a submarine on Tuesday, May 13; a submarine with a lot of cocaine in it.

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20. New Girl

The gang goes on a romantic getaway on May 6, one booked by Nick and Jess before they broke up.

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21. Once Upon a Time

Michael Socha will be a series regular on Once Upon a Time Season 4. Will he therefore show up on the two-hour, May 11 finale?

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22. The Originals

The French Quarter will be left in chaos on Tuesday, May 14 after one faction makes a very aggressive move against the others.

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23. Revenge

One character will be in jail and another will die on the May 11 finale.

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24. Supernatural

Sam, Dean and Castiel will take the fight to Metatron on the Supernatural finale. Airs Tuesday, May 20.

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25. Two and a Half Men

With his wife as Alan's fiancee, Brad Paisley will guest star on the Two and a Half Men finale (May 8).

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26. The Vampire Diaries

A couple familiar faces will show up on The Vampire Diaries May 15 finale, which will shake up The Other Side change the series for good.

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