As a show about police, Brooklyn Nine-Nine makes an effort to go out on the right note.
that “90% of what cops deal with should be handled by well-paid social workers.” It was fun to imagine season eight kicking off with the entire squad resigning in protest or shame, becoming social workers instead. Alas, that’s not what happens in “The Good Ones,” the season eight premiere—though one character’s soul-searching about the job does lead to a significant career change.
The episode also focuses on a police-brutality case, illustrating how legal protections for police officers prevent the prosecution of such incidents. Our heroes want the offending cops fired, and so does their captain —but she explains in detail why their quest is futile. The sequence is grimly funny, if dispiriting in its truthfulness, but the episode also has lighter gags that are still on theme. Boyle goes over the top in his anti-racist self-education and showy allyship.
I was slightly dubious about how effective the show would be in making this pivot. In the end, though, it works pretty well. Is that partly because this series has always been more of a wish-fulfillment fantasy than copagandistic productions like, say,? Sure! Though if there ever were a TV precinct that would create a pilot program advocating for its own defunding, it’s the 99.
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