I actually think Winston is the one that has matured the most over the seasons. He started out as this weirdo which the writers didn't quite know what to do with but now he has a stable job he likes and a long-term girlfriend. He's still weird, but more functionally weird. Everything is coming up Winston!
Jess and Nick stopped acting like real people somewhere in S3.
Jess was pretty hard to take in the pilot but they mellowed her out a few episodes into S1, she got worse in S3, then she just kind of floated around from relationship to relationship in the last two seasons. Her rock bottom was "300 Feet." I think her character is on the upswing again, but that Robby thing could sink her again depending on how they play it.
Nick used to be my favorite character, but I really didn't like what they did to him in S3 and he never really recovered from that. They did dumb him down a lot. They undercut him passing the bar by making him a *beep* lawyer. That whole not being able to step over a pile of laundry was just cringeworthy. His character seems to be on the upswing again as we see him struggle with what he wants out of life in an organic way like he did in S2. I hope they keep that version of Nick around.
They made Schmidt too soft when they put him in relationships, but they seem to be bringing back all those character quirks from single Schmidt now. Max Greenfield has been killing it on the reaction shots in S6 so I'm happy with where Schmidt is now.
I hope they give Cece something else to do other than be "Schmidt's wife" since they wrapped up that whole community college storyline. I heard she's going to open her own modeling agency, so that could be good.
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