TV #73 of 2021: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 8 Over the course of its history, the writers and cast on this police sitcom have appeared increasingly uneasy with its role as copaganda, leading to public statements and scripts that openly engage with institutional abuse and other social justice issues. For this last season, written in the …
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TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 7
TV #11 of 2020: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 7 Another solid run of this police workplace comedy (sitcop?), reliably delivering jokes but not really knocking it out of the park anymore. Brooklyn Nine-Nine has an unfortunate tendency to shy away from follow-through on any big narrative moves, and sure enough, this batch of episodes swiftly reverts …
TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 6
TV #17 of 2019: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 6 This show isn’t really surprising me anymore, but it’s still nice as a hangout sitcom with funny writing and great, only-somewhat flanderized characters. This first season on NBC is also a bit of a retooling for the program, with some occasional infodumps for the new audience members …
TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 5
TV #24 of 2018: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 5 It’s been a whirlwind time to be a Brooklyn Nine-Nine fan, with the show getting canceled by Fox and then saved by NBC in roughly the span of a day. I’m super glad that show isn’t ending now, but if it had, it would have absolutely gone …
TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 4
TV #19 of 2017: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 4 B99 is getting a little long in the tooth, but it’s still regularly delivering a funny character-driven story with a diverse cast and a definite focus on inclusive feminist storytelling (with regular callouts of sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and more). The major end-of-season plot twists generally don’t …
TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 3
TV #44 of 2016: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 3 My wife was still catching up on this show, so I’ve been rewatching it while she does. And now we’re both ready for the new episodes – including that New Girl crossover – starting soon! My reaction to the season this time is that it continues to …
TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 2
TV #41 of 2016: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 2 The main accomplishment of Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s second season is definitely delivering on the Jake-and-Amy romantic tension that developed over the course of season 1. But watching this season for the second time, I was also struck by how much the character of Madeline Wunch adds to the …
TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 3
TV #19 of 2016: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 3 One of the reasons I like to both consume and review TV shows in season-length portions is that that’s by and large how they are planned out, with the whole year’s character and plot arcs determined by the writers over the break. That’s not always so important …
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