![]() Same with the B-plot, which finds Holt getting on a dating app at the behest of Rosa and Amy. Perhaps if this came earlier in the episode, the writers could have made more of a meal out of a spiraling Charles, but this resolves itself far too simply. The family says whoever opens the jar is said to be the One True Boyle, so Boyle’s crisis is over before it really has a chance to get going. It all sends Charles into an identity crisis, but it’s quickly overcome when Charles miraculously opens his family’s Grandmother Starter, an extremely old sourdough starter with a very tight lid. This reveal was engineered by Charles’ jealous cousin, Sam, but it’s beside the point. ![]() While Charles resembles the Boyle family because the Boyle family cuddles their children so hard it reshapes their bones (the episode’s best joke), he’s not a true Boyle. But that’s not the twist the real twist is that the DNA test reveals that Charles is not actually a Boyle. In a classic twist, it turns out that the hair belonged to a nutria who got into the poison, and since Pappy naturally drank the nutria’s milk, he succumbed to its effects. The Boyle black sheep Lyndon is suspected of killing his father, and once a suspicious hair is found near some rat poison, Jake decides to DNA test each Boyle to determine who it belongs to. This leads to a classic whodunit in the mold of Rian Johnson’s film, complete with conflicting flashbacks and witness testimonies from strange Boyles. Trying to escape the demands of fatherhood and support their friend, Jake and Terry accompany Charles to the Boyle family farm, but they discover that something is amiss with Pappy’s death. The plot centers on the death of Charles’ great Uncle Pappy. Look, I’ve always been a mark for Boyle jokes, like the weird unintentional sexual innuendos and the beige outfits, and while “Game of Boyles” gets laughs out of one Boyle calling a head massage an “HJ” and their affinity for drinking nutria milk, by the end of the episode, it all starts to feel repetitive. Also feeling stale are the Boyle family jokes. The problem here is that by this point, the film is almost two years old, and the parody feels stale. ![]() “Game of Boyles” is first and serves as a pseudo-parody of Knives Out. Brooklyn 99 cast series#And “half-hearted” has never been a word to describe the series before. While “Game of Boyles” and “Renewal” each have their moments, with “Renewal” neatly, if too quickly, tying up the season’s arc, the entire affair feels rushed and half-hearted. The dramatic moments don’t quite land and can feel heavy-handed, while the laughs simply have been few and far between. ![]() By trying to serve two masters - responsibly telling stories about policing in a post-George Floyd world while also telling silly detective stories - Brooklyn Nine-Nine has given viewers tonal whiplash. The uneven final season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine continues this week with two episodes that feel like by-the-numbers installments that do little to dramatically improve the feeling that Season 8 has been a disappointment. This article contains spoilers for Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 8 episodes 7 and 8. ![]()
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