The trailer for Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s eighth and final season is full of heartfelt moments, zany Nine-Nine shenanigans and a whole lot of guest stars.
Kicking things off, the trailer shows Charles, inexplicably dressed in a fur coat, telling Jake he imagined they would continue solving crimes together on through to their nineties, bringing his buddy to tears. It goes on to reveal Captain Holt accidentally sending a “digital phallus portrait,” other districts’ Hitchcocks and Scullys gathering in the NYPD’s 99th precinct, Jake and Amy struggling to do the whole parenting thing right and Jakes trying to teach Holt how to correctly say “Whoop.”
Along with highlighting the antics of the Nine-Nine’s detectives, the trailer teases the many guest stars returning for Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s final season. Their ranks include Marc Evan Jackson as Holt’s husband Kevin, Jason Mantzoukas as former detective-turned private investigator Adrian Pimento and what appears to be Craig Robinson as Doug Judy AKA “The Pontiac Bandit.” Scrubs veteran John C. McGinley also appears as an unknown character presumed to be the NYPD’s new commissioner, as does Holt and Kevin’s prized pup Cheddar.
After delaying the show’s return in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdowns in Spring 2020, NBC announced Brooklyn Nine Nine would end with Season 8 earlier this year. The season underwent a dramatic retooling after George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, leading the show’s writers to scrap their original plan and start over to responsibly portray the actions of New York’s police officers. This is seemingly why the Season 8 poster doesn’t show any of the series’ characters wearing NYPD badges or uniforms.
Andre Baugher, who plays Captain Holt, commented on the challenges facing Season 8 in August 2020. “It’s a very complicated subject, but I think [the police] have to be portrayed much more realistically, in terms of this: The convention … that police breaking the law is okay because somehow it’s in the service of some greater good, is a myth that needs to be destroyed,” Braugher said. He assured that showrunner Dan Goor is committed to address the topic head-on, similar to how the series tackled the issue of racial profiling in the Season 4 episode “Moo Moo.”
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 8 premieres Aug. 12 on NBC.
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