![]() ![]() On the one hand, this feels fairly true to life, as much of the recent discussion surrounding police reform has pointed to the unchecked power and influence of unions. The season’s chief villain is revealed to be the head of the police union, Frank O’Sullivan, placed by ace character actor John C. There’s a running gag in that first episode about how Jake keeps insisting he’s “one of the good ones,” then acknowledging how false that sounds, yet Nine-Nine still treats him and the other regulars (well, maybe not Hitchcock and Scully) that way. It’s just very tough sledding for a workplace comedy - even one as smart and sincere as this one - to tackle such a messy, seemingly intractable problem while still squeezing in jokes and more or less letting the main characters behave as normal. It’s admirable that Goor and company have chosen to directly address some of the problems that Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter protests placed more directly in the public spotlight. After all, the best parts of the series have had little to do with law enforcement and everything to do with the interaction of these colorful characters played by one of TV’s deepest comedy ensembles. Why not just call it a day and leave viewers with fond memories of Jake doing the Full Bullpen across the squad-room floor, or Charles Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) complaining about his Dianne Wiest infection?ĭuring that long hiatus - which ends tonight with the premiere of back-to-back episodes on NBC and streaming on Peacock - Nine-Nine fans on social media would periodically say, only half-kidding, that the show would be best served coming back with Jake and the others now all working at the post office, or in some other less emotionally-charged profession. Nine-Nine had been created in a different time, and was already showing its age in that seventh season, after all. As Covid delayed production on what was now an abbreviated eighth and final season, it was hard not to wonder if perhaps the birth of little Mac Peralta shouldn’t have just been the conclusion of the series. Every cop show would likely need to wrestle with this altered perception in some way, but Brooklyn Nine-Nine - both an unabashedly progressive show, as well as one that largely used police work as fodder for broad laughs - would seem to have one of the more challenging tasks ahead of it. A little over a month later, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and as the video of this heinous crime went viral, our country’s relationship with cops - real and fictional - changed irrevocably. It was not necessarily meant as a series finale, since NBC had already ordered an eighth season of the long-running sitcom, but Season Seven was also the first Brooklyn year to conclude without any kind of cliffhanger. It was a gently silly moment on a show that had long made gentle silliness its stock in trade. ![]() ![]() ![]() Join Jake, Holt, Amy (Melissa Fumero), Terry (Terry Crews), Charles (Joe Lo Truglio), Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz), Scully (Joel McKinnon Miller) and Hitchcock (Dirk Blocker) as the Nine-Nine gears up for one last ride!Ĭast: Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Andy Braugher, Joe Lo Truglio, Chelsea PerettiĪspect ratio: 1.When last we saw the gang from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Andy Samberg’s Jake Peralta was passing his new baby son McClane - named, of course, for Bruce Willis’ character in Jake’s beloved Die Hard - off to wife Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero) so he could watch a cell phone video of Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) and Terry Jeffords ( Terry Crews) performing a hip-hop dance routine together. In the eighth and final season of the Golden Globe® Award-winning comedy sensation, Jake and his lovable colleagues face a challenging year both personally and professionally, packed with plenty of laughs and the return of many familiar faces along the way. Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher) and the rest of the beloved squad are reporting for duty one last time. ![]()
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