Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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Yes, I watch a lot of TV. 

I am liking (or desperately trying to like) Brooklyn 99. Andre Braugher is the best thing about the show. But it still needs to be funnier.

Brooklyn 99 has hit it's stride and is very funny, much funnier than last year. 

I'm really enjoying Brooklyn 99 especially Andre Brauer.

Been thinking about Brooklyn 99...it's funny, is it?  Trying not to get hooked to another show.  

Tara is into Brooklyn 99 so there’s a panel & experience.

I approve of Tara's appreciation of Brooklyn 99. How that show fits into Comic-Con I have no idea.

Comic con is now advertised as ‘pop culture’. There’s a huge NBC experience that offers Brooklyn 99, superstore & the good place. It’s outside the convention center with pop up constructions & a restaurant repurposed as a good place pancake house.

Started watching Brooklyn 99, the other portion of my SDCC deal with my daughter.  Binged the 1st 10 eps already.  Entertaining cast chemistry.  What a role for Terry Crews.  Fun to see other SNL peeps make cameos too.  But there's a lotta eps, 6 seasons with 20+ eps per season.  But they're short, less than a half hour each, and episodic in that way so they don't really need to be watched in order.

I've watched Brooklyn99 since the beginning. I've really enjoyed. It has a very quirky sensibility. Holt is the character that has shown the most change over the seasons. But they are all funny.

Holt and Kevin are my favorite part of the show.

I'm not deep enough in to have favorites yet but Santiago is basically a redux of Maya from Just Shoot Me.  I could relate to that show because it's about magazine publishing.  If Hitchcock and Sully were millennials, they might remind me of some of my coworkers.  I probably remind them of Gina.  It's a very entertaining show though.  You had mentioned it earlier on one of this TV season threads Greg.  Took me a while but I finally got around to it.  There was a set mock up at SDCC, and we thought about checking it out, but it was outside of the venue, in the gaslight district and the line was absurd.

i've been trapped in the brooklyn nine-nine rabbit hole.  so many eps.  i haven't even finished season 2 yet.  but they're short - less than 25 mins each.  it's been my go-to whenever i have a moment to kill.

Our discussion of B99 goes back to 2013.  Mostly it's Greg's obsession for Capt Holt.   I cut&pasted all the previous mentions that bore repeating above. I watch a few eps when I'm caretaking for my mom.  It's very distracting from her routine news>kelly ripa>let'smakeadeal>murdershewrote>emergency>ellen>news>maskedsinger.

I just start s4 & finished e5.  It's a great ensemble cast.  I didn't care for Samberg when he was on SNL - I thought he was too cheesy - that was until laser cats which was so ridiculously cheesy that it worked for me.  He kills it on B99, as does the rest of the cast. Luv the show. It's like comfort food for me now. I was chatting with Tara on the phone last night.  Looks like we'll be getting pro passes for SDCC again (assuming covid-19 doesn't cancel that too) and we promised each other that if there's another B99 pop up, we'll wait out that line this year.

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S4e8 had a sword in it.  Sarge cosplays to catch someone sending death threats to a fantasy author who inspired him as a child.  No sword fight but we'll take the sword joke.

[Drunk Monk]

Finished s4.  Still satisfying.  The cameos are great.

[Drunk Monk]

Finished S5. Danny Trejo as Rosa's dad was fantastic. What an amazing heartfelt coming out ep. This marks the final Fox season, for which I'm grateful because I disdain Fox.  I stopped watching Simpsons because of Fox's politics.  
S6 is NBC. Two more seasons, with S8 greenlit.  Still luvin this show.

[Greg]

You are so far behind. Not like us cool kids who are all up to date.

[Drunk Monk]

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finished season 6.

might just take season 7 slowly to savor it. 

nbc's take is better because they can swear.

[Greg]

It is good.

[Drunk Monk]

Finally finished S7. I was watching one a week to savor it but just finished it now. Still great all the way through. Will there be a S8? I’m ready. 

Nine nine!

[Greg]

In light of the Defund the Police movement, I don't know how this will play.

[Drunk Monk]

They're working on it. 

'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Writers Have Been Consumed With the Best Way to Approach Season 8
Abeni Tinubu | MORE ARTICLES
August 13, 2020

When Brooklyn Nine-Nine premiered back in September of 2013, plenty of people were fighting against police brutality. But now, in 2020, the discourse surrounding police brutality and policing is even more prevalent in mainstream U.S. society. In light of recent events, more and more people are questioning the function of the police and demanding that cities rethink the budgets that they allocate to their police departments. This national shift has caused Brooklyn Nine-Nine writers to rethink the way they approach the show ahead of Season 8.
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[*]Brooklyn Nine-Nine cast | Photo by FOX Image Collection via Getty Images

[*]But, just how can fans of Brooklyn Nine-Nine expect the show to change, and what is happening behind the scenes to ensure that there is sensitivity to current events? According to some of the cast members, the writers have “taken a step back” to think about how to approach Season 8 in a way that they feel morally good about.
The ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ writers have taken a step back ahead of Season 8
The process has, apparently, not been an easy one. In a recent interview with Vulture, Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s co-creator, Mike Schur, got candid about how preoccupied the writing staff and his fellow co-creator, Dan Goor, have been with serving the tone of the show while also acknowledging the current political climate. Though Schur admits that he’s no longer involved with the show on a daily basis, he has spoken to Goor at length about how the writers plan to address season 8.

“We’ve had a bunch of conversations about it,” Schur shared about his Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator, Goor. “I know that it has been, I would say, all-consuming for him and his writing staff. How could it not be? It’s not very frequent that you’re making a TV show and then the exact subject of your TV show becomes the dominant national conversation everyone is talking about,” the talented producer shared.
A double-edged sword
Schur admitted that the Brooklyn Nine-Nine writers are operating from a fairly tricky spot. On one hand, they want to be respectful of what’s going on in the world. But, they also want to do so in a way that serves the overall story and tone of the show.


“It’s a tricky thing,” Schur began, explaining how the writers for Brooklyn Nine-Nine were in a difficult spot. “They want to address it more than anything, and they’re going to. But also the show has a very specific tone and it’s very silly and fun, and you can’t just turn on a dime and make the show into something it isn’t. The show is not designed to be a vehicle for the intense and drama-filled discussion of social justice. So if you suddenly make it that, it’s not going to work,” the co-creator confessed.

The writers want to ensure that they aren’t alienating their viewers
Schur added that changing the tone of the show completely would only manage to alienate the Brooklyn Nine-Nine audience. “Whatever message you’re trying to get across won’t be received, because people will be like, ‘What the he*l is this? This isn’t the show that I know.’ At the same time, if you don’t address it at all, then it’s absurd — you’re doing a show about police officers in New York City who are completely, utterly failing to address the dominant issue of the day that has to do exactly with them and their behavior. So it’s a really dicey thing.”


It will be interesting to see how the creatives behind Brooklyn Nine-Nine go about writing Season 8. Though it’s certainly not an easy task, it’s absolutely a necessary one. We’re sure that fans of the show are anxiously awaiting the next season.

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And then there's this:

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[color=var(--color-grey-900)]Brooklyn Nine-Nine Problems Addressed in Depth by Andre Braugher[/color]

[color=var(--color-grey-500)]Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Capt. Raymond Holt says that even he has "fallen prey to the mythology" of policing in America.[/color]

By [color=var(--color-grey-900)]Kirsten Howard[/color]

[color=var(--color-grey-400)]|September 17, 2020[color=var(--color-grey-400)]|[/color][/color]



[b][i]Brooklyn Nine-Nine[/i][/b] star Andre Braugher has been talking about the issues that the show faces going into Season 8, now that the writing team behind the comedy series have decided to [color=var(--color-grey-900)]scrap their initial scripts in the wake of global Black Lives Matter protests and continuing police brutality in America, and start over from scratch.
Braugher, who has played Capt. Raymond Holt on the beloved sitcom since 2013, notes that when addressing its lighthearted portrayal of police behavior, [b][i]Brooklyn Nine-Nine[/i][/b] has – [color=var(--color-grey-900)]for the most part[/color] – been no different to other shows in sweeping the more distressing facts under the carpet for entertainment purposes.
The actor previously starred in NBC’s acclaimed cop drama [b][i]Homicide: Life on the Street[/i][/b] for six seasons before landing the part of Holt on [b][i][color=var(--color-grey-900)]Brooklyn Nine-Nine[/color][/i][/b], and has spent some time thinking about what these roles have contributed to the public’s perception of the police.
“I look up after all these decades of playing these characters, and I say to myself, it’s been so pervasive that I’ve been inside this storytelling, and I, too, have fallen prey to the mythology that’s been built up,” Braugher said in a new interview with [color=var(--color-grey-900)]Variety[/color]. “It’s almost like the air you breathe or the water that you swim in. It’s hard to see. But because there are so many cop shows on television, that’s where the public gets its information about the state of policing. Cops breaking the law to quote, ‘defend the law,’ is a real terrible slippery slope. It has given license to the breaking of law everywhere, justified it and excused it. That’s something that we’re going to have to collectively address — all cop shows."[/color]
He added “the myth that the outcomes of the criminal justice system are not dependent upon your race has to be confronted.”
Braugher admits that it’s going to be hard to keep the jokes coming when it comes to facing the situation head-on in [color=var(--color-grey-900)]Season 8, and that co-creator Dan Goor’s efforts to incorporate a more realistic version of policing in America may ultimately fail, but he still seems to feel positive that it’s the right thing to do.
“[b][i]Brooklyn Nine-Nine[/i][/b] has to commit itself, as a comedy, to telling the story of how these things happen, and what’s possible to deal with them. I don’t have any easy answers, nor do I have a window into the mind bank of this writing staff. Can you tell the same story? Can anyone in America maintain any kind of innocence about what police departments are capable of?
“Can a comedy sustain the things that we’re trying to talk about? I don’t know. It could be a really groundbreaking season that we’re all going to be very, very proud of, or we’re going to fall flat on our face. … But I think this is a staff, a cast and a crew that’s willing to take it on and give it our best. I think we have a damn good chance to tell the kinds of stories that heretofore have only been seen on grittier shows.”[/color]
NBC has not yet set a premiere date for [b][i]Brooklyn Nine-Nine[/i][/b]’s eighth season, but we’ll keep you posted.

Written by
Kirsten Howard [color=var(--color-grey-400)]| [color=var(--color-grey-900)]@emotionalpedant[/color]
Kirsten Howard has been a news editor and social manager at Den of Geek UK since 2016[/color]

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[Greg]

Sad, but I'll accept it.

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