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shallownessBrooklyn Nine-Nine 5.12 Safe House
I missed the opening tag and started watching it at the briefing, where Terry was wearing a very bright shirt.
Very entertaining episode with Jake volunteering to protect Kevin in the safehouse from Shamus Murphy. Holt was so absurdly mordant (bang, bang, you’re dead/you killed Kevin), and the visiual crawling gag always worked. I thought my favourite bit was Holt’s texts, but Kevin’s relative meltdown at discovering the other Nic Cage movies after all that had gone before made me laugh a lot. Oh, and the slo-mo walk as the library pervs was grand. The emotional throughline of Holt’s genuine worry, and Jake being pulled into the strain being put on Raymond and Holt’s relationship had heft.
Nice variant on the daft names and backstories Boyle and Peralta come up with for Rosa, and her take on Gina’s fake story was funny, as, again was the visual of the terrible hairstyles she’d got.
Also absurdlt brilliant – the room filled with shredded paper, which overwhelmed even Amy, and Scully turning out to be a savant at piecing them together.
A good episode, then.
And all the while I was watching it, I didn't know it had been cancelled. I feel like it could have gone on and on, because, as a workplace-based comedy, it's been able to accommodate things like Jake and Amy's developing relationship and children in a way that many dramas wouldn't. And these are mostly cops that love their work - only Santiago, Holt and perhaps Jeffords's careers have suffered to keep the gang together.
E4 is bigging up the fact that we’re coming to Agents of SHIELD’s hundredth episode (and spoiling us a little/a lot about who’s turning up). We’ll see if it lives up the hype. I like to think that I will be able to judge it on its merits, non on whether Coulson and May kiss properly.
I missed the opening tag and started watching it at the briefing, where Terry was wearing a very bright shirt.
Very entertaining episode with Jake volunteering to protect Kevin in the safehouse from Shamus Murphy. Holt was so absurdly mordant (bang, bang, you’re dead/you killed Kevin), and the visiual crawling gag always worked. I thought my favourite bit was Holt’s texts, but Kevin’s relative meltdown at discovering the other Nic Cage movies after all that had gone before made me laugh a lot. Oh, and the slo-mo walk as the library pervs was grand. The emotional throughline of Holt’s genuine worry, and Jake being pulled into the strain being put on Raymond and Holt’s relationship had heft.
Nice variant on the daft names and backstories Boyle and Peralta come up with for Rosa, and her take on Gina’s fake story was funny, as, again was the visual of the terrible hairstyles she’d got.
Also absurdlt brilliant – the room filled with shredded paper, which overwhelmed even Amy, and Scully turning out to be a savant at piecing them together.
A good episode, then.
And all the while I was watching it, I didn't know it had been cancelled. I feel like it could have gone on and on, because, as a workplace-based comedy, it's been able to accommodate things like Jake and Amy's developing relationship and children in a way that many dramas wouldn't. And these are mostly cops that love their work - only Santiago, Holt and perhaps Jeffords's careers have suffered to keep the gang together.
E4 is bigging up the fact that we’re coming to Agents of SHIELD’s hundredth episode (and spoiling us a little/a lot about who’s turning up). We’ll see if it lives up the hype. I like to think that I will be able to judge it on its merits, non on whether Coulson and May kiss properly.
