This week on Brooklyn99, J.K. Simmons’ Detective Dillman stops by to help solve a mystery in a bottle episode that rivals the show’s best. Alan Sepinwall’s recap
Depending on when this was produced, it might have been fun to swap out Jake’s bad attempt at a Hercule Poirot accent for him aping the Foghorn Leghorn cadence of Benoit Blanc in the very Christie-esqueAs the squad and Dillman try to figure out who planted the glitter bomb on Jake’s desk that destroyed a crucial piece of evidence, the episode does, indeed, work as a mystery. Various revelations from the end of the episode are seeded early on.
Boyle has generally been presented as a lesser detective than Jake, Rosa, or Amy, but never as an idiot like Hitchcock and Scully. He’s good; just not as eager to impress as Jake and Amy, nor as fundamentally terrifying as Rosa. Giving him the task force job is a nice way to acknowledge that he deserves more respect than his fundamental Boyle-ness would suggest.“Pimemento,”
there’s still a lot of laughter to wring out of making these usually close-knit characters all fight with one another. Here, the levels of hostility and paranoia were very high, including Jake suggesting that suspenders were the entirety of Terry’s personality and Jake being upset that Rosa steals his “Title of your sex tape!” joke.
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