B99 - Final double-bill
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shallownessOf course had to be one last heist, but with a whole secret motive. I don’t know how I felt about Jake also leaving the 99, after Rosa, Holt and Amy, but it is the way they’ve gone this final season. I still had yet another moment of thinking I’d want a more fiscally responsible house husband, myself, The first episode felt particularly frenetic, I’d been spoiled for Gina’s return by ‘Goodbye Brooklyn Nine Nine’ and, eventually, like Charles, I didn’t know whether she was lying about stealing diamonds from the locker or not.
That there would be a lot of shock betrayals was fairly clear. I never fully brought Rosa going off with Pimento, but the pay-off of Rosa telling Amy she loved her was beautiful, and the warm and fuzzy didn’t drop off as Scully and Hitchcock embraced, and Scully having left the food stain there for him to smell actually made me bark with laughter. Good to see Hitchcock along with all the cameos. I wouldn’t have been surprised if Bruce Willis had turned up, but I presume the orchestra lady was Andy Samberg’s wife.
The heist worked as a self-referential way to bring back all these old faces with nods to important moments. I did think they were working a touch too hard with Jake trying to get them all to the Brooklyn bridge, although that got swerved away from, as it should.
I suppose there were even more treats and pay-offs in the second ep: Holt making a speech about Terry and the interview really being a fake, how huge Amy’s prank was on Jake, Terry proving he was captain material by getting them all together after all their attempts to win/get to say goodbye to Jake had got in the way, and getting them out of a tight spot. Papa Holt and Jake’s final conversation, and yeah, Holt getting to deliver ‘title of your sex tape’ was perfect. And after the apt enough downbeat sadness of saying goodbye, the well-judged tag where they all came back for another heist, because it was wrong that Hitchcock had won last, absolutely.
I went back to watch the spoilerific tease for the finale in 'Goodbye Brooklyn Nine Nine’ and Joe Le Truglio made the valid observation that the finale had given each character their moment for their important relationships, most of which I’ve noted as highlights, but also a moment for each character to celebrate who they were now, who they’d become in part because of their eight years together as a squad, and so it did feel like a good send-off for a show that’s earned a lot of affection over the years.
[Edited on 27/1/25 for typos.]
That there would be a lot of shock betrayals was fairly clear. I never fully brought Rosa going off with Pimento, but the pay-off of Rosa telling Amy she loved her was beautiful, and the warm and fuzzy didn’t drop off as Scully and Hitchcock embraced, and Scully having left the food stain there for him to smell actually made me bark with laughter. Good to see Hitchcock along with all the cameos. I wouldn’t have been surprised if Bruce Willis had turned up, but I presume the orchestra lady was Andy Samberg’s wife.
The heist worked as a self-referential way to bring back all these old faces with nods to important moments. I did think they were working a touch too hard with Jake trying to get them all to the Brooklyn bridge, although that got swerved away from, as it should.
I suppose there were even more treats and pay-offs in the second ep: Holt making a speech about Terry and the interview really being a fake, how huge Amy’s prank was on Jake, Terry proving he was captain material by getting them all together after all their attempts to win/get to say goodbye to Jake had got in the way, and getting them out of a tight spot. Papa Holt and Jake’s final conversation, and yeah, Holt getting to deliver ‘title of your sex tape’ was perfect. And after the apt enough downbeat sadness of saying goodbye, the well-judged tag where they all came back for another heist, because it was wrong that Hitchcock had won last, absolutely.
I went back to watch the spoilerific tease for the finale in 'Goodbye Brooklyn Nine Nine’ and Joe Le Truglio made the valid observation that the finale had given each character their moment for their important relationships, most of which I’ve noted as highlights, but also a moment for each character to celebrate who they were now, who they’d become in part because of their eight years together as a squad, and so it did feel like a good send-off for a show that’s earned a lot of affection over the years.
[Edited on 27/1/25 for typos.]
