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New Girl: parents' guide

14+our pick

Best for ages 14 and up. Rated TV-14.

A goofy, good-hearted roommate comedy best for teens, since most episodes revolve around dating, hookups and drinking. Jess, a quirky teacher, moves in with three single guys in Los Angeles, and the friends stumble through relationships, jobs and growing up over seven seasons. Sex is implied often but never shown, a bar is practically a second home, and marijuana and meth come up in jokes. Language stays mild for network TV. In season 2 a main character's father dies. Age 14 reflects the steady sexual content and heavy drinking.

What's in it

Violence

Mild

Comic punches and shoves without blood, plus a brawl among drunk parents in the final season. Fights are never threatening, and nobody is badly hurt.

Language

Mild

Mild for network TV: hell, ass, damn and bitch, with douchebag a running word and an occasional crude insult like slut. Crass gestures appear, but the reviews we read noted no s-words or f-words.

Sex and nudity

Moderate

Frequent sexual talk, hookups, infidelity, and references to strippers and group sex. Characters make out, straddle each other and appear shirtless, in underwear or implied naked under sheets, but no nudity is shown.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Moderate

Drinking is constant and often leads to drunkenness, since one lead tends bar. Characters joke about marijuana, pot cookies and methamphetamine, and one pretends to be a recovering alcoholic.

Scary or intense scenes

Mild

Nothing scary. Emotional beats include breakups and a season 2 episode built around a father's funeral; in the last season the friends mourn a pet cat that died offscreen a year earlier.

Sensitive topics

  • Death of a parent
  • Animal death

Worth talking about

The roommates become each other's family; ask what makes a friend group stick together through breakups and big life changes.

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.