Uncoolcoolcoolcoolcool! Not noice! After eight glorious seasons – 153 gag-filled 22-minute episodes – Brooklyn Nine-Nine ends tonight. This has happened before. Fox cancelled it in 2018, five years after it premiered on the network, but a social media campaign by outraged viewers – bolstered by high-profile fans such as Lin-Manuel Miranda, Guillermo del Toro and Mark Hamill – saw it picked up quickly by NBC for three more seasons.
This time the goodbye to beloved detectives Jake, Amy, Rosa, Terry, Charles (yes, OK, Hitchcock and Scully as well) and to their boss, Captain Raymond Holt, is for real, as it bows out with a final double bill of episodes on E4. And it’s probably for the best. It goes out on the high it has maintained since it began in 2013, and before the radically changed real-life context hobbled a US show based on the collective belief in the intrinsic goodness of cops.
