Brooklyn Nine-Nine · Season 4 · Netflix
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 4
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 4 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.6/10. 22 episodes on Netflix from 20 September 2016.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Season 4 opened with Jake and Rosa in witness protection, an episode-level genre experiment that demonstrated the show’s willingness to bend its format. The season maintained the ensemble quality and added some of the best cold opens in the series’ run. The Jake-Amy engagement was handled with the show’s usual non-dramatic grace. The only note was that 22 episodes at this pace occasionally felt like the format stretching slightly thin.
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Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E1Coral Palms: Part 1
Witness protection becomes an ensemble mirror: Holt anchors the rules, Jake turns them into comedy, and romance stays character-first.
Full review of E1 → - E3Coral Palms: Part 3
Brooklyn Nine-Nine uses a “small” case to stage a bigger fight over control, and the comedy mostly works because the timing is personal.
Full review of E3 → - E4The Night Shift
This hour opens with the premise that the 99th precinct can be “organized” the way criminals are organized. That sounds harmless until the episode treats procedure like a character, then punishes it like one. The new captain’s straight-backed presence gives every form, meeting, a
Full review of E4 → - E5Halloween IV
BollyAI’s read: Holt’s rules make the case feel real, and the precinct’s chaos still solves it by the end.
Full review of E5 → - E6Monster in the Closet
S04E06 turns precinct dysfunction into investigation discipline, building laughs from misreads and earning its solve through procedure.
Full review of E6 → - E7Mr. Santiago
BollyAI’s read: procedure becomes personality and the squad pops, but a few joke delays blur the case’s urgency.
Full review of E7 → - E8Skyfire Cycle
A comedy-leaning precinct hour that lets Terry’s ethics lead, even when the plot sometimes races ahead of the emotion.
Full review of E8 → - E9The Overmining
BollyAI’s read: It turns paranoia into evidence-based comedy, then pays you back with a satisfying case pivot that lands slightly late.
Full review of E9 → - E10Captain Latvia
An investigation built like a leadership test, where Holt’s rules create friction and the comedy comes from procedure colliding with pride.
Full review of E10 → - E11The Fugitive
BollyAI’s read: the episode turns procedure into a comedy obstacle, then proves Jake can win without pretending Holt isn’t there.
Full review of E11 → - E12The Fugitive
BollyAI’s read: the hour turns Holt’s rules into a moral pressure test, and the precinct laughs through consequences.
Full review of E12 → - E13The Audit7.6
A tight procedural with sharper character braid, but the emotional aftermath arrives, jokes too soon, and the impact fades.
Full review of E13 → - E14Serve & Protect
The case becomes a pressure test for the precinct’s ego and loyalty, and the ending wraps a little fast.
Full review of E14 → - E15The Last Ride
“The Bet” turns a prank into procedural accountability, and the funniest parts land because Jake’s shortcuts keep creating real bills to pay.
Full review of E15 → - E16Moo Moo
Holt’s rule-bent comedy becomes a discipline test, and the case solves the characters as much as the mystery.
Full review of E16 → - E17Cop-Con7.6
Holt’s rules turn the team’s comedy into procedure, and the case advances because their mess is finally intentional.
Full review of E17 → - E18Chasing Amy7.4
The case is just the test. S04E18 mostly wins by turning team flaws into investigative obstacles, even when a few jokes run long.
Full review of E18 → - E19Your Honor
A procedural comedy that turns rules into character pressure, forcing Jake, Amy, and Holt to pay for ego before the case can close.
Full review of E19 → - E20The Slaughterhouse7.6
A precinct comedy that earns its laughs by treating rules as character, not punchlines, even when the landing arrives too fast.
Full review of E20 → - E21The Bank Job
Holt’s procedure turns the case into a character test, and Jake and Amy’s collision is the episode’s funniest, smartest engine.
Full review of E21 → - E22Crime and Punishment
The finale solves fast, jokes harder, and earns its emotional landing through Holt and the crew’s routines more than through heavy closure.
Full review of E22 →
Season Over Season
Season 4 is the first season that isn't quite at the Season 2-3 peak, but 'slightly below B99's best' is still excellent network comedy.