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Episode 01: Coral Palms (1) -

—the Season 4 premiere of Brooklyn Nine-Nine —is a masterful subversion of the show's status quo, dropping Jake Peralta and Captain Holt into a pastel-colored, Florida-themed witness protection purgatory. Review Highlights

: Maya Rudolph shines as their witness protection handler, U.S. Marshal Haas. Her deadpan delivery and obvious disdain for their constant "detecting" provide the perfect foil to Jake’s inability to stop being a cop. Episode 01: Coral Palms (1)

: The episode thrives on the forced intimacy between the two. Seeing their professional respect translated into a bickering, neighborly rivalry provides some of the series' best character work. —the Season 4 premiere of Brooklyn Nine-Nine —is

: Shifting the action from the gritty streets of Brooklyn to the humid suburbs of Florida allows the show to lean into a fresh, surrealist brand of comedy. The sight of Holt as "Greg," a power-walker with a passion for local municipal issues, is worth the price of admission alone. Her deadpan delivery and obvious disdain for their