User Reviews

Certainly not a memorable episode, but still kind of entertaining. Bradley Whitford's character was terrible, but Jake and Martin Mull made the most of the scenes. Holt criticizing Terry will never get old either.

As usual, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is spectacular with its characters, humour and storylines. Sometimes however they feel the need to add politically driven propaganda in storylines from time to time. For the most part I agree with what they have to say, in fact for the most part I cheer them on for standing up for what they believe in as a show; this time however it makes no sense. In the B plot of this episode, Hitchcock and Scully have been found out by Amy for hiding evidence to a particular case she is interested in solving for the however it turns out the two of them are covering for an Illegal Immigrant. Amy changed her mind at the end however because; (apparently being an illegal immigrant is a crime we can look away from). I don't know who in their right mind would want to stand up for people who's first act in entering a country is breaking the law. Law enforcement above anyone else would understand that illegal immigrants are criminals simply by entering into their own country, but they play it off as a social issue that needs to be addressed. Legal Immigrants themselves are very much against illegal immigration because it goes against the very thing they stand for. I can get behind a lot of the stuff the Left likes to shove down our throats, but I will never be in the favour of people who feel entitled enough to break the law to enter a country and think its 'ok'. Breaking the law is breaking the law, end of story.

The A plot about Jake's Father and Grandfather was great and even the B plot was good aside from police being ok with criminals breaking their own countries laws. 7/10

Brooklyn Nine-Nine, while still a good show overall, has had a political abd societal agenda since about season 5 now, if I recall correctly. While being preached to through forced dialog which appears inorganic and shallow is never fun (think your conservative grandparents telling you you need God in your life "because it's the right thing to do", to mention an example across the aisle), I just ignore these recurrences as they don't typically extend beyond a one-liner about twice per season or so. However, this episode has very clearly gone out of its way to make an entire B story about just that. Scully and Hitchcock shelter an illegal immigrant from being prosecuted from a crime he/she (can't remember and does not bear relevance) committed (besides illegally residing in our country, that is), which goes against everything that badge can and should ever stand for. The reason? Identity politics. As a matter of fact, that entire B plot is vastly unfunny, uninteresting, and dissatisfying in its implementation. You end up feeling like what you just watched wasn't entertaining, and it didn't even matter, because there is no real conclusion to the "mystery".

Now to talk about the good part of this episode: the A plot. While I found it strange to be seeing Jake's father out of nowhere after he had barely been on-screen for the past six and a half seasons, I very much enjoyed a couple of jokes which occurred during this part of the episode. The A plot revolves around the gender reveal party (which they refer to as "sex reveal" instead as part of identity politics, which is still annoying, but not quite as bad as just about everything the B plot does), which makes for a couple of good jokes about how horribly wrong these things can go when something unaccounted for happens. Aside from that, I also liked seeing the dynamic between the Peraltas being explored.

Overall, I'm disappointed with this episode. Not only was only half of it fun to watch, but I truly do wonder how some very good shows have gone nine seasons and over without getting too political when this one fails to not trip over that in very inorganic ways several times per season (or, in this case, per episode). As a person with moderate views, I'd dislike this just as much if the episode was praising right wing points, which I don't remember any shows I've watched doing. When I consume entertainment media, I try to take a break from real life where everyone only ever talks about politics, and most shows and movies within the comedy genre succeed at accomplishing that, so I would like this one to do the same, as it very much managed to do prior to season 5.

The A plot with Jake, his dad and grandfather, was awesome The end was a little anti-climatic ( the "sex" reveal to Amy), but the rest made up for it.

The B plot with Holt and Terry was so funny. They have such great chemistry.

The C plot though. Lord save me from the liberal agenda. Not only did they (yet again) shove their nonsense down our throats, Amy and Rosa rewarded Hitchcock and Scully for breaking the law.

Literally. Rewarded. Them.

This episode would've easily gotten a 7.5 or 8 if not for NBC force feeding us their garbage.