RATING: VERY NEGATIVE - 4/10
I of course don't want this review to come off as hateful towards the show or anyone involved since Brooklyn Nine-Nine is my all-time favorite show, but this one episode was one I just could not stand. It has stuck with me, but not in a good way like you would want an episode to stay with you.
I should also mention now that this review contains HEAVY spoilers for season 6 episode 12 of the series, and most likely the entire late half of the series as a whole. So view with caution or stop here if you don't want spoilers for the show.
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There was so much wrong with this episode and it was honestly completely unnecessary for the series and the characters in the episode. I think that there was a big shift in the show as a whole when NBC took it over - which wasn't all bad, but a lot of the shows weakest moments came after this switch.
Jake & Amy's relationship is one of the highlights of the show and one of the most well known and well loved sitcom couples there is - and this episode starts as another sweet episode about the two of them after their marriage. It starts off as your normal episode, cheerful, the characters are actually... in character, and the plot seems very sweet overall. But this episode takes a turn for the worst and it's because of Amy.
Late series Amy IS a lot different from early series Amy - which is fair, a lot of the characters developed more and became different people as the series went on, but these other characters (except for Gina) grew and became better versions of themselves, Amy did not.
Amy became more controlling than she ever was. Being a control freak/perfectionist was always a big part of her character but in this episode she became borderline manipulative over an issue you think she would've discussed with Jake long before she got married.
There are some sweet moments at the start of this episode which set it up as a really nice, fresh episode - but Amy brings up the topic of trying for a baby and soon realizes that her and Jake weren't in agreement with this topic. She wants kids, he does not.
She says "we're gonna start trying soon", when it seems that there wasn't any talk about this between the two of them at all. This seems very out of character for Amy since she's the type to keep binders full of information about everything she would possibly need to know. I refuse to believe there was any way that this WASN'T brought up before they got married. I can't see her letting that happen.
So instead of talking to him about it, she makes this assumption and then puts their relationship on the line when Jake says he doesn't really want kids. Amy claims that she talked to Jake about this topic - but the flashback scene shown wasn't even on the topic at all.
Amy decides to do a "structured debate" on the topic rather than just talking it out with Jake, which is another part of this episode that was just so deeply frustrating to me. Amy ended up manipulating Jake into changing his mind after practically threatening to leave him (almost straight after their marriage/honeymoon less than a season before this). She was constantly breaking his trust and their privacy in this episode/during this debate and her behavior here was downright diabolical.
I don't have anything negative to say about this show for the most part outside of this episode. Everything about this episode was uncomfortable and downright confusing to watch, and it added nothing to the plot in the future of the show. They still would've had the kid without the pointless episode of Amy manipulating Jake into changing his view (that we didn't even know he had) about the topic.
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