Note: Do not read on if you have not yet seen Season 2, Episode 20 of Fox’s “New Girl” titled “Chicago.”
After the incredible episode we were rewarded with last week, this week might seem at first like a let-down, but it isn’t. It’s life. And real life sometimes changes your plans and keeps you grounded, just like in Nick’s case when his dad, Walt, unexpectedly passes away from a heart attack. The grieving gang heads out to Chicago, Nick’s hometown, for the funeral.
The trio arrives at The Miller home, where Nick spent his childhood except for the fall of ’88 to the spring of ’89 — which was their van year — to find his crazy family being it’s crazy self. His younger brother Jamie is understandably yet overly distraught (and is a spitting image of Nick, by the way), his mother doesn’t have anything planned and the irresponsible Nick Miller we know and love is forced to take on a different role: that of the grownup. Turns out, with his father coming and going, even as a young man Nick had to step in and take care of his family.
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