Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 5
Overview
Season five opens in a prison, which is not where you expect a workplace comedy to go. Jake and Rosa are doing time after being framed by the dirty Lieutenant Hawkins, and the show splits its focus — the squad working the case on the outside, Jake doing his best to survive a cellmate with a taste for human flesh (he's weirdly sweet about it) and a warden nobody should cross. They're out a few episodes in, and from there the season plays like a victory lap. The fifth Halloween heist doubles as the most romantic episode the show ever made, Amy steamrolls her sergeant's exam, Holt runs for commissioner, and Rosa comes out to her parents as bisexual in an arc handled with real care — people still point to it as one of the best coming-out storylines TV has done. In the background, a wedding builds: venues, vows, Charles campaigning to be the world's most intense best man, and a bomb threat landing on the day itself. This was also the season Fox cancelled and NBC rescued about a day later, which honestly tells you everything about how loved this ensemble had become. Joyful, confident television.
