As Brooklyn99 returns with a two-episode Season Seven premiere, Holt is forced to walk the beat. Alan Sepinwall’s recap
Second, as I alluded to earlier, the show rarely escapes these cliffhangers gracefully, so better not to even try. It should be easy to get through one season — and a shorter, 13-episode season, at that — with Holt enduring this lowly status, and then it should be even easier to slide him back into his old office at the start of Season Eight . I’m sure in the end, it will prove more complicated than that, but it certainly doesn’t need to be.
That said, this week’s episodes were a mixed bag, particularly in how they leaned on other overused aspects of theformula. “Captain Kim” in particular returned to a couple of concepts the show should have outgrown by now: the replacement captain who is quickly pushed out, and Jake behaving in a stupid and self-destructive fashion for an entire episode, despite everyone else telling him what’s really happening.
The latter type of story happened a lot early in Season One, usually with Holt as the one trying and failing to get Jake to wise up. It’s not a coincidence that the series took a major step up in quality once Jake stopped such a petulant man-child , along with Holt and Jake beginning to develop a mutual respect.
“Captain Kim” offers a few twists on the formula, the first being that Holt is behaving just as petulantly as Jake typically does. And Captain Kim herself turns out to be exactly the nice and smart commanding officer she presents herself to be, which means Jake and Holt were being particularly stupid in chasing her away. It might be that giving the squad a good and sane temporary boss would have made it harder to generate comedy.
Still, the two episodes offered some promising new story ideas and gags. A depressed, impotent Holt is a note Andre Braugher has played well in the past , and he did it again here as Holt adjusted to his new station and to having to work with Debbie.
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