Brooklyn Nine-Nine review: Jake has to be Captain Holt’s Hitchcock

Kevin needs help solving a case on this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine and it means that he asks Jake but not Captain Holt. So, what happens when it ends badly?

Brooklyn Nine-Nine continues to be one of those shows where, even when things are completely outrageous, we’re still in love with the episode. On this week’s episode, Jake is approached by Kevin to come investigate a case at his college campus but he doesn’t want Raymond to help because of something that happened at their holiday Christmas party.

The problem is that Holt is seen as “less than” because he’s a cop rather than working as a professor like everyone else. So when no one is taking him seriously, Jake keeps trying to make Holt come off as intelligent as Jake thinks he is. But with every new twist to the case, it gives the dean of the school a reason to mock him even more.

By the end though, Jake is realizing that no matter what Holt does, they’re going to treat him as less than and so Kevin stands up for Raymond after they solved the case.

Meanwhile, back at the precinct, Amy and Terry are trying to keep morale up among the Nine-Nine and they decide to start to have a lunch break war, breaking into a mess where no one is really enjoying themselves. But, at the end, Amy and Terry both realize that they focused their energy on the wrong things and make a fun lunch room for everyone to enjoy where they can, essentially, ignore each other.

It was a pretty big week for everyone at the Nine-Nine, all trying to be better than themselves and, in the end, it showed that you can’t force a view upon yourself. Raymond Holt is an exceptionally intelligent human and just because those professors don’t see him as such doesn’t mean that he isn’t smart. It is more a reflection on them rather than Holt.

Luckily, Holt had Kevin finally stand up for him and tell them all that he is better than they perceived him to be. The episode, while just a fun filler episode, still had an important message for us all. Holt kept wanting to change to fit whatever image they wanted of him and it took Kevin standing up for him to realize he didn’t have to.

The same message was there with Amy and Terry and trying to “build morale” by being the cooler sergeant. Maybe everyone in the Nine-Nine needs to be reminded that they’re just amazing as they are and, even if Jake Peralta thinks he’s short, he doesn’t need to learn Spanish and snoop listen to Amy’s parents talk about him to feel better about himself.

Still though, it was a pretty amazing episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and maybe Jake and Holt need to go ‘undercover’ and work on more cases together.

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