![]() Holt compares the approach to a trident, nearly driving DCEU fan Jake Peralta insane (though the tridents in Aquaman and Justice League, which Holt has clearly never seen, have five prongs instead of the correct three). The effort to do so leads to a three-pronged attack. Once again leaning into a season that clearly wants to dismantle this show’s role in copaganda, the writers make it clear that their officers would never put a mouse in a burrito - they’d catch the guy who did. Of course, the Vermin Burrito story is supposed to recall similar cases of police officers making up stories - like the Shake Shack Milkshake or the nonsense about an officer having the word “pig” written on a cup from McDonald’s - hoping to gain some viral support. ![]() It opens with a news report of an NYPD officer who finds a dead mouse in his burrito, which Frank O’Sullivan calls an act of “political violence.” Holt points out that the to-go order was placed without the restaurant knowing the customer was a cop, which made the whole thing suspicious. If the series premiere was about the “bad apples” concept, the third episode is about how often officers band together to protect their rotten fruit. Let’s hope the pattern doesn’t continue for a third week. They both contain enough moments of humor and insight to work reasonably well on their own terms, but they’re also both in the shadow of superior outings from just a week ago. The result is a pair of episodes that kind of feel like an echo of last week rather than pushing forward any sort of season momentum. The creative team behind Brooklyn Nine-Nine has trotted out the same formula as the show’s premiere week for its sophomore double feature, once again chaining an episode that tackles real-world concerns with one more centered on the personal lives of the members of the Nine-Nine.
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