watch brooklyn nine nine season 3 episode 6

With “The Suicide Squad” opening with a scene tied to the Kelly story, Holt’s podium becomes the season’s final pre-credits comedy sketch.

It was hilarious anyway, because the character is so well-established and because it was so unsettling to hear Andre Braugher laugh quite that much in this role. From the moment Jake moves Holt’s podium a half-inch in the “Sicko” teaser, I knew Holt would be utterly thrown and amused by it. * Laughter can come from surprise, but it’s often more effective for jokes to be predictable, in that we understand characters well enough to know how they’ll respond in a situation. * Technically, that’s a fake Durrells in Corfu gif, featuring Nine-Nine writer Madeline Walter. This turned out to be one of Brooklyn‘s best seasons, and this was one of the series’ stronger finales. More importantly, though, the idea of dignified, stentorian, uptight Raymond Holt having to direct traffic is a lovely visual joke, and one the show should be able to mine for a bit until he inevitably winds up back in his old office. It’s largely an all’s-well-that-ends-well situation… until acting commish Wuntch pulls some bureaucratic strings to force Holt from plainclothes back into uniform.Īs these cliffhangers go, this one seems pretty easy to overturn.

All seems well, and even Terry‘s pending transfer to Staten Island gets overturned. Instead, it’s another heist of sorts, as we find out that Jake and Wuntch have been sneaking around behind Holt’s back to trick Kelly into providing them with evidence via his unlocked phone. And if Stentley is more Homer Simpson than ever (he also wouldn’t answer to Homer Thompson), Marino relaxes so deep into the cartoonishness that it works.Įventually, “The Suicide Squad” seems on the verge of repeating ideas from past finales, particularly with Jake and the other detectives arrested for their fake kidnapping of Stentley. It has a lot of the great character development and friendship of Bones, without all the gore and violence that's hard to watch these days. It makes me feel as happy as Great British Baking Show.

It's a show with so much kindness and genuine friendship. It's so unusual - always always funny, but never mean. The Holt/Wuntch enmity in particular is a bottomless source of humor for the show, so any excuse to bring Sedgwick back is welcome. Brooklyn Nine-Nine is my happy place now. It’s an obviously terrible idea that’s just an excuse to let Dean Winters, Kyra Sedgwick and Ken Marino do their thing again, which is fine. This takes us right into “The Suicide Squad,” where Jake recruits some of the show’s greatest past nemeses - the Vulture, Madeline Wuntch and C.J. “Sicko” resumes the rivalry between Holt and Commissioner Kelly with the introduction of Kelly’s anonymous tips app, HotClues, then takes a twist at the end revealing that the app is just cover for Kelly’s Dark Knight-esque illegal wiretapping operation. And at first, that’s where “Sicko” and “The Suicide Squad” seem to be going. With the Season Seven renewal coming relatively early, it seemed inevitable that we’d head back into cliffhanger territory.

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