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shallowness) wrote2016-06-02 07:51 am
shallowness) wrote2016-06-02 07:51 am
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Mega Brooklyn Nine-Nine post
I started catching up on these episodes last week, but thought I'd wait until I was caught up to post my reactions. I watched them in batches of two.
B99 3.20 Paranoia
Rosa and Pimento’s engagement and sudden marriage was worthy of a ‘Wait, WHAT?’ Jeffords had a point about Pimento’s instability, as we all knew. Anyway, of course Boyle got to be one of the co-maids of honour and of course he, Gina and Amy got competitive about who could hold the best bachelorette party. Surely it was a team win. Cops/mean adults vs. kids in paintball was a good start, but Amy getting them all drunk probably made Rosa even happier. I did wonder if it would turn out that Charles got them demolishing the wrong restaurant. Of course, Rosa was chipper the next morning.
Meanwhile, there could have been a dozen reasons why the guy wasn’t after Pimento really, but no, he was for real. Terry being dubious about Rosa/Adrian, Adrian proving Terry's points with Jake as referee, putting a positive spin on it all, not to mention the Hitchcock and Scully interjections was also fun.
Rosa and Adrian are so epic but nuts. But it all works as something for the 99 to fight together for in the next few episodes.
3.21 Maximum Security
This episode got more wry chuckles than anything, but they were well earned, especially Gina’s face as she got Holt to okay the nickname ‘Scarjoe’. The lampshading of Fumero’s pregnancy was ace, and I liked that they went deeper than Amy trying to prove she’s as tough as Rosa – I mean, she isn’t, though she’s competitive, but she’s tough enough to be an NYPD detective, which is tough enough – to Jake being rubbish at letting her be in danger as her handler. Charles as the inappropriate shippy chorus, overidentifying with ‘the baby’ was a good addition.
Meanwhile, the team secretly trying to smoke out the FBI guy is fun and odd, and although I felt the exposition was a bit much solely because I’d just watched the previous ep on catch-up, the follow-through of Terry trying to be there for Rosa now that Adrian had left, even though he hadn’t approved of the engagement, was rather nice.
3.22 Bureau
I’m glad Dennis Haysbert is getting to play some variety, because B99 is no Undercover. The montage of daft preparation to break into the bureau was really amusing. And I couldn’t quite believe Hitchcock and Scully would let the crime numbers slip on purpose or by accident.
Meanwhile Andersonn and Holt and their lint thing (there’s two of them!) were funny – Braugher’s line reading of the final ‘oh Bob’ was hilarious. I howled.
Amy and Charles’s subplot was the relatively weak link, but the worthy pay-off was the reveal that Bob was a bad guy, which I hadn’t consciously suspected but didn’t feel like too much of a surprise. (Boyle is going to adopt a kid?)
All these characters’ world views are so amusingly skewiff.
3.23 Greg and Larry
Heh, heh – all of it, from Hitchcock and Scully’s ‘help’ to the hospital shenanigans to Boyle’s feelings about 27 Dresses (so MUCH random popculture these last two episodes) and a baby who hadn’t met Jake! to giving up and going along with the flow with Fumero’s pregnancy. Oh, and Holt’s continuing disappointment in Bob!
Their various interrogation techniques were pretty funny, and I thought Jake ruining jazz would do it, but I liked that it was teamwork that broke Bob. Despite Amy's spiral about Holt, it was Jake who got the 'son'. Then finally we got to the reason for the title. I guess Jake didn’t move in with Amy after all.
It has been uneven, but when it's been on song, it's been hilarious, and without getting all Charls Boyle about it, I love that they went there with Jake/Amy.
B99 3.20 Paranoia
Rosa and Pimento’s engagement and sudden marriage was worthy of a ‘Wait, WHAT?’ Jeffords had a point about Pimento’s instability, as we all knew. Anyway, of course Boyle got to be one of the co-maids of honour and of course he, Gina and Amy got competitive about who could hold the best bachelorette party. Surely it was a team win. Cops/mean adults vs. kids in paintball was a good start, but Amy getting them all drunk probably made Rosa even happier. I did wonder if it would turn out that Charles got them demolishing the wrong restaurant. Of course, Rosa was chipper the next morning.
Meanwhile, there could have been a dozen reasons why the guy wasn’t after Pimento really, but no, he was for real. Terry being dubious about Rosa/Adrian, Adrian proving Terry's points with Jake as referee, putting a positive spin on it all, not to mention the Hitchcock and Scully interjections was also fun.
Rosa and Adrian are so epic but nuts. But it all works as something for the 99 to fight together for in the next few episodes.
3.21 Maximum Security
This episode got more wry chuckles than anything, but they were well earned, especially Gina’s face as she got Holt to okay the nickname ‘Scarjoe’. The lampshading of Fumero’s pregnancy was ace, and I liked that they went deeper than Amy trying to prove she’s as tough as Rosa – I mean, she isn’t, though she’s competitive, but she’s tough enough to be an NYPD detective, which is tough enough – to Jake being rubbish at letting her be in danger as her handler. Charles as the inappropriate shippy chorus, overidentifying with ‘the baby’ was a good addition.
Meanwhile, the team secretly trying to smoke out the FBI guy is fun and odd, and although I felt the exposition was a bit much solely because I’d just watched the previous ep on catch-up, the follow-through of Terry trying to be there for Rosa now that Adrian had left, even though he hadn’t approved of the engagement, was rather nice.
3.22 Bureau
I’m glad Dennis Haysbert is getting to play some variety, because B99 is no Undercover. The montage of daft preparation to break into the bureau was really amusing. And I couldn’t quite believe Hitchcock and Scully would let the crime numbers slip on purpose or by accident.
Meanwhile Andersonn and Holt and their lint thing (there’s two of them!) were funny – Braugher’s line reading of the final ‘oh Bob’ was hilarious. I howled.
Amy and Charles’s subplot was the relatively weak link, but the worthy pay-off was the reveal that Bob was a bad guy, which I hadn’t consciously suspected but didn’t feel like too much of a surprise. (Boyle is going to adopt a kid?)
All these characters’ world views are so amusingly skewiff.
3.23 Greg and Larry
Heh, heh – all of it, from Hitchcock and Scully’s ‘help’ to the hospital shenanigans to Boyle’s feelings about 27 Dresses (so MUCH random popculture these last two episodes) and a baby who hadn’t met Jake! to giving up and going along with the flow with Fumero’s pregnancy. Oh, and Holt’s continuing disappointment in Bob!
Their various interrogation techniques were pretty funny, and I thought Jake ruining jazz would do it, but I liked that it was teamwork that broke Bob. Despite Amy's spiral about Holt, it was Jake who got the 'son'. Then finally we got to the reason for the title. I guess Jake didn’t move in with Amy after all.
It has been uneven, but when it's been on song, it's been hilarious, and without getting all Charls Boyle about it, I love that they went there with Jake/Amy.