User Reviews

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is hands down one of the my favorite comedies of all time, but Season 3 has had a couple of blah episodes. The Mattress is essentially a rehash of the hilarious season 2 episode, Stakeout, but not nearly as funny. Except in this case it's not Jake and Boyle working on a case, but Jake and Amy. Captain Holt is skeptical when they want to work on a case together as they are a couple, but they decide to go with it and much like the much better Stakeout, Jake and Amy get into an argument causing the criminal to realize they're being watched thus ruining the case. It's not really awful or anything, just kind of boring, Amy also pesters Jake to get a new mattress throughout, and in the end he caves in. But, the biggest problem with this episode is how it ends as Jake and Amy are about to go catch the criminal as Jake is buying a mattress on his phone, but it ends there, we never get to see the great action scenes that Brooklyn is capable of, just disappointing. The B-plot along with the C-plot are dull. The B-plot consists of Bolyle hitting Holt's car and Holt getting furious with him. I'll admit there are a couple of funny scenes, but overall nothing special. Then there's the laugh-less C-Plot with Rosa and Terry where Terry doesn't want Rosa to discipline the kid she has in the Big Brother program. Overall, this is one of the few meh episodes of Brooklyn. There are a couple of gems scattered out like Jake saying how creative drug dealers have gotten with the names of drugs and the mattress montage, but really nothing special. I do not recommend it, unless you plan to watch all the episodes, I'd advise to watch the best better episode this one is trying to mimic which is Season 2 Episode 11 Stakeout, the B-plot and C-plot are actually funny, the Jake and Boyle A-plot that The Mattress is mimicking is way funnier, and it's just an A+ episode, so watch that not this.