Jake tries to help “parent trap” the pair, but his efforts go hilariously array, before eventually actually proving that there may be life in Holt and Kevin’s relationship after all. The entire gang, minus a missing Hitchcock, who unfortunately has retired, accompanies Holt to his lake house, which is just a lake house in name and not near an actual lake, to help him move through his feelings about Kevin. However, second episode “The Lake House” does feel slight in comparison. “The Good Ones” is an excellent starting point for Season 8 with many new status quos to navigate. It’s moments like this that make Brooklyn Nine-Nine more than a silly hang-out show. In one of Andre Braugher’s finest moments of the series, he relays how the year has been hard to be a Black man, a police officer, and with COVID, just a human in general, and his relationship with Kevin has suffered as a product of those hardships. Eventually we learn that Holt’s distance has little to do with Amy he and Kevin have separated. It’s more of a lighthearted approach to what might be this season’s overarching themes.įinally, Amy returns to the force, but finds that her relationship with Holt has suffered in her absence. Charles is the perfect person to embody the well-meaning, but misguided “ally,” performatively showing his support of Black lives and rights while still doing some cultural appropriation and general Charles much-ness. It’s funny, but in a terribly bleak sort of way.įunnier is a subplot showing Charles trying to prove his “woke-ness” to Terry. Many of Jake’s “I’m one of the good ones” talking points are thrown back into his face and we’re shown just how much work still needs to be done to ensure fair repercussions against corrupt officers. Jake and Rosa eventually overcome their differences and recover a key piece of evidence that implicates the offending officers, but are brutally shown just how purposefully difficult it is to prosecute against bad cops. He’s also making the case about himself than the victim.īrooklyn Nine-Nine has shown how deft they are with dealing with sensitive topics in the past, and once again they prove to be incredibly measured and economical with their discussion about the responsibility of the “good” police officers here. Jake feels like Rosa is judging him for his choice to remain a police officer despite the injustices that are routinely occurring in the country, but it is not Rosa’s job to help him feel secure in his decisions. McGinley, but Jake also lets his defensiveness about his decision to remain on the force impact his ability to meaningfully support Rosa and her client. Not only is there an obnoxious union representative played by the great John C. Working the case together ends up being trickier then Jake realizes. Why Brooklyn Nine-Nine is Ending By Alec Bojalad We have an opportunity and we plan to use it in the best way possible,” Terry Crews told Access Daily. “This is an opportunity right now for us all to unite and get together and understand what this is and that we have to battle this together.” “We’ve had a lot of somber talks about it and deep conversations and we hope through this we’re going to make something that will be truly groundbreaking this year. Creator Dan Goor threw away four scripts for the final season in order to make sure that his show was not glossing over relevant conversations around policing. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, the cast and crew of Brooklyn Nine-Nine spoke at length about their discomfort portraying light-hearted cops on television and discussed ways in which they could meaningfully address painful, complicated issues. Besides a historic pandemic that has changed the way we operate at work and in public, America also reckoned with egregious examples of police brutality that found many discussing police reform, systemic racism, and even abolishing policing as we know it altogether. It would an understatement the size of Terry’s pecs to say that the world has changed a lot since Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s last episode. Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 8 Episodes 1 and 2 This Brooklyn Nine-Nine review contains spoilers.
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