‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ episode 14 review: The Terry Crews episode

Terry Crews has long been a personal favorite, dating all of the way back to him being a cast member on “Everybody Hates Chris.” So to see him be a part of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” this season has been very fun to watch, especially when it comes to the new episode that aired on Fox Tuesday night.

The story of this episode was basically that Terry was set for his first real mission in the field, where he was forced to go undercover at (where else?) a gym in order to bust a nasty steroid trade going on there. However, he also had Boyle and Peralta breathing down his neck at every turn, mostly because they were absolutely terrified that he would do something dangerous and leave his daughters without a dad. Crews has played this “massive guy with a sensitive heart” character before, but this is the most fleshed-out version of it that he has done.

The biggest problem with the episode, at least from this vantage point, is that it really didn’t really build. Terry proved himself to be ready for the case, and that Jake was just freaking out over nothing. That was about it. There wasn’t really anything uproarious that happened at the gym, and that is somewhat sad given that there was the potential to do all sorts of crazy stuff there.

The B-story was a little different in that it lacked some of Crews’ awesomeness, but was a nice little story about Gina actually being comforted by some of the other cops after a break-in. There have been at times where she has just been Aubrey Plaza 2.0 on this show, but at least there were a few little new wrinkles in here.

The best part of the entire episode, though, was the opening: This little game of “wife, or dog?” was one of the funniest things that the writers have ever come up with by a mile. Grade: B+.

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