User Reviews

They're claiming the episode is too preachy and political yet that's the reason they're upset because the perspective doesn't fit their own.

They say the episode doesn't have humor, they had a great scene of Rosa and Amy getting drunk and switching places both pretending to be Amy, Charles kicking Terry's ass with an apple, and Holt getting "Huffy".

It's ironic to me that they never had an issue when the show portrayed cops as being immaculate and always moral or social critique episodes that made the issues with the police force a minor and uncommon issue.

This isn't the best season of the show but I think they're doing a good job directly addresing the common and systemic issues with law enforcement protecting cops from any punishment while not making all cops look bad.

Seasoned imdb users can measure how explosive or provocative a certain episode is by the massive spike in imdb user votes and imdb user reviews, and The Set Up is no exception, especially in the thought provoking season eight of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Anyway, for me the opening scene was hilarious, with Jake's witty references to Speed, Keanu Reeves, Jeff Daniels, and also the punchline of the The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel fan bus which was incredibly funny and made me laugh big time for sure. Anyway, the speech at the end was incredible and emotional and no doubt will trigger spasms of disgust from some.

Most of the episode is alright, though the twist that O'Sullivan was messing with the candy didn't really land. All was ok, until the ending with Jake & Holt. The little speech Jake did was great. I do kinda wish this episode had a few more laughs.

This show, from seasons 1-7, had such a consistent tone and was always hilarious. Season 8 saw such a dramatic shift. It shoves messages down your throat due to modern politics, but never pulls it off. Its clunky, obvious, and takes the place of the shows humor rather than existing with it. Also, as far as this episode is concerned, Jake shouldn't have been suspended. The man was not wrongfully arrested, he ran from a cop who asked to talk to him. That is cause for arrest, whether you are scared or not.

It was a fun episode with a true consequences for the characters. Some people aren't going to like this. It plays a little funnier than it probably should for subject matter but does a solid job of addressing it.

People get upset this is political in nature, but the entire season was made in the shadow of George Floyd and what happened last year. What continues to happen. These episodes are the creators reconciling the cop comedy with the realities of policing. So yeah, this episode good and does well at what they are going for. It's not perfect but it's good.

Jake gets in trouble for wrongly arresting a guy then gets suspended. Apparently everyone forgot the dude was trespassing and ran from a cop.... both of which are illegal and grounds to arrest. But I guess in woke show land nobody thinks about that because political correctness is all that matters.

Yeah it was pretty good. O'Sullivan has become a funny character. Amy and Rosa have funny beer, made me laugh. They did a pretty good misdirection with the whole sweets thing. Overall, a good episode that did their political view thing well.

As someone who was putting B99 episodes on random shuffle to watch when I felt like watching something but not something I needed to give my full attention I can honestly say this Season wont be included in that shuffle.

The Set Up was this weeks Political episode and so had very few actual funny moments (odd for what was a comedy). This episode was perhaps the worst so far since in the previous episode its "heavily" implied that Jake aided Doug Judy in escaping prison (someone who very much should be in prison and is guilty of ALOT) and he is fine with that and suffers no consequences. That episode ends without elaborating on what exactly he had to do to escape (besides using the pen), if it included hurting atleast someone which seems reasonable given he was escaping police custody.

In this episode Jake decided to push and investigate an attempted bombing even though the FBI had taken over. He arrested someone who happened to be at the site of the previous attempted bombing and ran when Jake approached him. The moral of this episode seems to be that Jake should only do what he's told or maybe questioned the guy more after he caught up with him.

Its all very contradictory and confusing, one of the next 2 episodes should really have Jake arrested and up on charges for aiding in a prisoner escape.

The main problem I think alot of people are having with this season is they watch this show for the laughs and as pure entertainment with occasional more serious topic episodes that still kept the humour up. Also that the issues they are addressing now are very one sided like I cant believe its easy or enjoyable to be a Cop in America especially now. The Mouse burger was a setup in Blue Flu but it isnt a stretch to think people would do something like that.

Don't you listen to bad review: this episode is the best Brooklyn 99 episode ever written, specially for a final season. SPOILER ALERT. In this episode Jake is in the wrong, and even if he has good intentions he has to pay the consequences for his action. Is a memorandum for cops and the final lesson in the journey in Jake's adult life. B plot between Terry and Charles is mediocre, but A plot is so good that he has to balance with slapstick comedy.