The seventh season of "New Girl" may already be the series' last, but Zooey Deschanel is pretty happy with how things wrap up in what would be a one-hour episode this summer.
Cancellation rumors were plaguing the sitcom for months before Fox's last-minute decision to give the show one final chance last May. That would have given the cast no time to effectively bring down the curtains in a way that will actually satisfy longtime fans and properly bid adieu to their characters, which is why Deschanel is pleased that season 7 was greenlit.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the 2018 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, California, on Thursday, she said she wanted to do a season knowing they were ending at the end.
"It would have been OK if it was season six," she said, "[but] I would have wanted to know at the beginning of season six, so that we could properly say goodbye. I'm really happy we had a final season and we knew it while we were shooting it."
She has not provided specifics about the plot, but did spill that "New Girl" season 7 would be full of Easter eggs paying homage to some of the show's beloved episodes.
"I feel like we covered a lot of our classic sort of scenarios in the last season," Deschanel noted. "The writers did a good job. There are a lot of Easter eggs."
The show's eight-episode swan song has been confirmed to premiere on April 10. It will air uninterrupted for six weeks before coming to a close with an hour-long series finale on May 15.
Picking up three years after the events of season 6, fans can expect Nick (Jake Johnson) and Jess (Deschanel) are already a couple again; Schmidt (Max Greenfield) is now a stay-home dad, while then-pregnant Cece (Hannah Simone) is a working mom to their daughter, Ruth; and Winston (Lamorne Morris) and Aly (Nasim Pedrad) are married and have a child on the way when the series returns.
Damon Wayans, Jr., David Walton, Dermot Mulroney, and Rob Reiner are all set to return as guest stars alongside new ones including "One Mississippi's" Tig Notaro and "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" JB Smoove as Winston's father.
