New Girl: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best

7. Season Seven

The show's shortest season by far, New Girl's seventh and final chapter almost didn't happen, with the season six finale originally envisioned as the series' last episode before Fox renewed it for one last hurrah.

Over eight episodes - including an hour-long finale - this season takes place three years after season six's heartwarming conclusion, with Jess and Nick happy in love but unable to take things to the next level, Schmidt and Cece tackling the mounting hardships of parenthood, and Winston and Aly dealing with pregnancy.

It's tightly focussed throughout, allowing each character and each relationship to hit new, emotional highs, but in the end the season is actually quite underwhelming. Not only does in lack the comic urgency of what came before, but much of the drama feels somewhat anticlimactic.

Whether it's Nick's inability to propose or Schmidt becoming a stay-at-home dad, some of the joy is there, but most of it comes across as predictable and hollow. It's still funny and touching in the big moments, but the rushed pace and low episode count let it down massively overall.