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shallowness) wrote2020-06-04 06:21 pm
shallowness) wrote2020-06-04 06:21 pm
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B99 quadruple bill
B99 7.7 Ding Dong
I really liked this episode, because the A plot was really Holt working through his feelings about Wench’s death, by way of continuing his barbed insults for most of it, and Rosa and Amy got to accompany him through it. I too thought she’d faked her own death, and the fact she’d recorded all those messages before she died (of what? How did she know it was coming?) was…intense. Rosa’s good detecting skills came through, only late, but it was a good job Holt was Just Paranoid Enough not to fall into Wench’s trap.
This meant that Peralta really had the B plot, for once, as he had to deal with Terry and Charles’s escalating competitiveness over the film tickets. The solution was obvious long before he got to it, but I did love the police tape creating the boxing ring, Charles’s cheating, oh, and Terry’s coin bending before that. I was waiting for both dads to validate Jake’s paternal lecture, judgment and walk-off, but the ending was far more sweet than that, as Amy’s crazy hormones had been a feature of the whole episode. A down-to-earth enough and sweet enough scene, and then the BRILLIANT ending of Boyle realising when Jake knew (hey, better that than Boyle knowing at the point of conception, no?) Good job on paying off one long-running plotline (Holt v. Wench, ironically framed as a twisted romance here) and an important point for Jake/Amy, the show’s main canon ship.
7.8 The Takeback
Given that this involved the return of Doug July AND Trudy July (not that fussed about them), I was glad we had two subplots. The one with Captain Holt’s desk was better – so he’s back!! I did think it might be a sting where Jake would be involved in the actual heist of the diamonds – this was a good heist episode; Jake pretending to be an online star and the naff pop song duets were fun – so I was glad it turned out the way it did, with Jake ultimately being a cop AND the future of their friendship winning through. Won’t Charles be jealous?
7.9 Dillman
A stuck-in-the-precinct mystery with a very well-known guest star! I have to admit, I somewhat suspected Jake of setting it all up so that he could prove his detective skills. Holt’s fanboying of Dillman and how Simmons fed off that was fun.
Good to have an episode where Boyle and his detective skills got the win.
7.10 Admiral Peralta
Why not get Jake’s biological dad (and grandfather) out of the way now, indeed? Emotionally touching to see Jake’s readiness to be a dad recognised by his failboat father. But I think his work!daddy will play a bigger role later on in the pregnancy.
Nice start with the nod to the time the actress playing Amy was pregnant and how they ‘hid’ it on the show. I enjoyed Santiago and Diaz teaming up to clean up Hitchcock and Scully’s mess, only to find it was the kind of mess any decent cop would have made (and the decency of all these fictional American cops lands even more right now). ‘Figi’ and the fake scold tickled me.
I enjoyed how Detective Peralta was the bigger man than Captain and Admiral Peralta.
The time gags with the cake worked, as did the weirder, pettier aspects of Holt coaching Jeffords, and the way Amy found out they were having a boy tied into the rest of the episode.
I’m still behind.
I really liked this episode, because the A plot was really Holt working through his feelings about Wench’s death, by way of continuing his barbed insults for most of it, and Rosa and Amy got to accompany him through it. I too thought she’d faked her own death, and the fact she’d recorded all those messages before she died (of what? How did she know it was coming?) was…intense. Rosa’s good detecting skills came through, only late, but it was a good job Holt was Just Paranoid Enough not to fall into Wench’s trap.
This meant that Peralta really had the B plot, for once, as he had to deal with Terry and Charles’s escalating competitiveness over the film tickets. The solution was obvious long before he got to it, but I did love the police tape creating the boxing ring, Charles’s cheating, oh, and Terry’s coin bending before that. I was waiting for both dads to validate Jake’s paternal lecture, judgment and walk-off, but the ending was far more sweet than that, as Amy’s crazy hormones had been a feature of the whole episode. A down-to-earth enough and sweet enough scene, and then the BRILLIANT ending of Boyle realising when Jake knew (hey, better that than Boyle knowing at the point of conception, no?) Good job on paying off one long-running plotline (Holt v. Wench, ironically framed as a twisted romance here) and an important point for Jake/Amy, the show’s main canon ship.
7.8 The Takeback
Given that this involved the return of Doug July AND Trudy July (not that fussed about them), I was glad we had two subplots. The one with Captain Holt’s desk was better – so he’s back!! I did think it might be a sting where Jake would be involved in the actual heist of the diamonds – this was a good heist episode; Jake pretending to be an online star and the naff pop song duets were fun – so I was glad it turned out the way it did, with Jake ultimately being a cop AND the future of their friendship winning through. Won’t Charles be jealous?
7.9 Dillman
A stuck-in-the-precinct mystery with a very well-known guest star! I have to admit, I somewhat suspected Jake of setting it all up so that he could prove his detective skills. Holt’s fanboying of Dillman and how Simmons fed off that was fun.
Good to have an episode where Boyle and his detective skills got the win.
7.10 Admiral Peralta
Why not get Jake’s biological dad (and grandfather) out of the way now, indeed? Emotionally touching to see Jake’s readiness to be a dad recognised by his failboat father. But I think his work!daddy will play a bigger role later on in the pregnancy.
Nice start with the nod to the time the actress playing Amy was pregnant and how they ‘hid’ it on the show. I enjoyed Santiago and Diaz teaming up to clean up Hitchcock and Scully’s mess, only to find it was the kind of mess any decent cop would have made (and the decency of all these fictional American cops lands even more right now). ‘Figi’ and the fake scold tickled me.
I enjoyed how Detective Peralta was the bigger man than Captain and Admiral Peralta.
The time gags with the cake worked, as did the weirder, pettier aspects of Holt coaching Jeffords, and the way Amy found out they were having a boy tied into the rest of the episode.
I’m still behind.