Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best (So Far)

In preparation for the sitcom's final season, let's relive the best and worst of the 99th Precinct.

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NBC

The recent revelation that Brooklyn Nine-Nine's upcoming eighth season will be its last hoorah has hit the sitcom's fandom hard. Despite nearly coming to an end after season five - before being saved NBC and some impressive fan outcry - the show has had a fantastic run, covering numerous episodes and having a blast bringing the laughs.

It'll be hard to say goodbye to the 99 after all these years, but following the finale there will be a total of 153 episodes for fans to happily binge on, spread over a remarkably consistent set of seasons.

With the final stretch on the horizon and plenty of people binge-watching the series in preparation for its last days, now seems a good time to take a trip down memory lane and attempt to answer a seriously tough question: Which season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the best of the best?

From the early days of the ever-brilliant Halloween Heist to the heartwarming union of Jake and Amy, this article will have a crack at answering that seemingly impossible question by pinpointing which seasons are the show's strongest, and which ones don't quite live up to the hype...

Major spoilers will follow.

7. Season Seven

Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Fox

Brooklyn Nine-Nine's most recent season was a slight drop in quality compared to other seasons, despite sporting some of the show's most rewarding emotional payoffs and character set-ups to date.

The reason for this is simple, since season seven features only 13 episodes, compared to the previous season's 18, 22 or 23 episode count. Unfortunately, this reduced episode count means less time spent with some of the season's more intriguing developments, such as Holt's time as a beat cop and Debbie's turn to crime, both of which are rushed and almost alienating in parts.

This is still Brooklyn Nine-Nine, mind, so there's plenty left to love, including the brilliant finale - Lights Out - which sees the birth of Jake and Amy's son, McClane "Mac" Peralta, and the inspired J.K Simmons-led bottle episode Dillman, which sees Jake trying to prove his skills to Holt once more.

The witticisms are all there and the relationships are as exciting as ever, and if it wasn't for the bizarre Debbie subplot and the surprisingly lacking Halloween Heist episode, Valloweaster, season seven would probably rank as an all-timer.

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