With the introduction of Walt Miller, New Girl upheld that time-honored TV tradition of deadbeat dads and the children who despise them, and it did so with more nuance and understanding than we get in most comedies. http://www.tv.com/news/new-girl-a-fathe more

HitFix's Alan Sepinwall reviews "A Father's Love," the January 15 episode of FOX's "New Girl," in which Dennis Farina stops by as Nick's con man dad, and Schmidt and Robby team up. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/review-new-girl-a-fa more

After several episodes focusing on romance, last night’s New Girl centered on a bromance. Onetime enemies Schmidt and Robbie have teamed up in the face of a new foe: the world’s entire population of Indian men. Meanwhile, Nick’s dad is in town, and he’s e more

Not New Girl 's finest hour. While " A Father's Love " did attempt to tug on the viewer's heartstrings, it for the most part failed to actually make me laugh for the majority of the half hour. As always, Schmidt had the winning lines, but tonight's episod more

We’ve been meeting a lot of family on this season of  New Girl , and in this week’s episode, “A Father’s Love,” we got to meet the man  responsible for Nick, his gambling, con-artist father, Walt (played by Dennis Farina). I have to ad more