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| Left to right: James M. Connor, Michael Grant, and Andy Samberg |
Welcome to a weekly recap of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which is one of the funniest and freshest new comedies currently airing on TV. Follow us every Thursday as we break down the episode into all of the important beats from the plot to character moments that are worth giving another shout-out. With an all-star comedy cast, this recap series will hopefully give you the information you need as well as reason to watch Fox on Tuesdays.
Crime of the Week: A tagger is painting pictures of penises on cop cars.
Peralta's Problem: While an efficient employee, Detective Peralta (Andy Samberg) is incapable of showing up to work on time in uniform.
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| Left to right: Joe Lo Truglio and Chelsea Peretti |
Subplot of the Week: Charles (Joe Lo Truglio) continues to try and hook up with Detective Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz) with the help of a psychic (Artemis Pebdani) whose best qualifications involve getting discounts on lady's footwear and figuring out cases in a hangman style elimination. By the episode's end, Charles ends up stuck in a chair with fear that he will be hurt if he stands up.
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| Left to right: Peretti and Artemis Pebdani |
Best Joke: To prove that the psychic is legitimate and can help with the drug case, Gina (Chelsea Peretti) reveals that she predicted that Gina would have a sensuous evening with a man named Mark. In a cutaway, she asks patrons in a bar for somebody named Mark and picking one of them. It doesn't disprove the psychic's skills, but also reflects on Gina's promiscuous nature and desire to help her shoe-selling friend out.
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Culprit: The tagger was Trevor (Michael Grant), son of Deputy Commissioner Podolski (James M. Conner), whose influence makes it hard to finally arrest him.
Resolution: Peralta arrests Trevor in order to be a hard working police officer despite it potentially harming his relationship with Deputy Commissioner Podolski. Charles is no closer to landing a date with Diaz, though is proven wrong about the phony psychic when Gina reveals that the psychic did predict quite a few things in the most roundabout way possible. Also, Peralta solves his lateness issue by sleeping in a tent in the meeting room, though he still is no better at waking up on time.
Verdict: So far, Brooklyn Nine-Nine has proven to be the best new comedy on TV largely because it knows what it is doing. Even if there were parts of the episode that didn't gel, the comedy so far is proving to be very strong, especially as an ensemble piece. I loved the take on the psychic who was actually just a shoe salesperson, as it proves the level of satire that the show is striving to succeed at. I wonder if Charles and Diaz's bizarre relationship is going to be a running gag or if it will eventually resolved. However, both are just so adorably different that I don't care at the current moment. I even like the tagging scenario, which manages to turn an episode-long series of penis jokes into something kind of intelligent and silly. The final touch is Podolski's influence being an issue, as it makes for an interesting case of moral ethics. This show manages to be ridiculous without going too far. It manages to satire the genre without being insulting about it. I look forward to whatever the show does next and see if it succeeds as one of the great procedural comedies of our time.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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