Show With Promise Alert: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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No one wants to go down with the ship.  I just finished watching Dexter and my TV life is worse for it.  That being said I am extremely careful with the shows I sample now.  I watch them, I follow their ratings, and I even check to see how many/what hashtags a show can generate.  This is all in an effort to never go down with the ship again.  The following series of articles is designed to give you an idea of the new broadcast shows I’m sampling in hopes they stick around for a few years. 

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Lets start right out by saying that Brooklyn Nine-Nine is funny.  It’s probably the best out of a weak network crop of comedies this fall.  The premise is not all that new (funny cops), but the cast is excellent.  Coming from the creators of Parks and Recreation, Dan Goor and Michael Schur, the show was already going to have a long leash for me.  If you look back on Parks’ first season, it was pretty terrible.  It had a great cast, but it wasn’t very funny.  It takes time to build that proper ensemble chemistry.  To that end, I think BKNN has already figured out a great deal of it’s issues.  I’d like to see it focus on the minutae of work as an officer and less so on the actual cases themselves.  Murders aren’t too funny, so hopefully it keeps that balance in check.

The chief concern of the writers of BKNN should be Andy Samberg’s character, Jake Peralta.  In the pilot, while everyone else at least SEEMED like they could work in a Brooklyn police precinct, Andy’s character, didn’t look like he had any business working anywhere.  He was drawn as far too silly to ever be a legitimate cop.  In subsequent episodes, it looks like they’ve taken some strides to dial his goofiness down, but that’s the big tonal issue.  Joe Lo Truglio, Chelsea Perretti, and Terry Crews, should really shine in a format like this.  The only complaint I would have to say is it’s lead-in, Dads.  We all know Dads is awful, but a bad lead-in can kill a quality show.  Community has been the worst lead-in possible for most of Parks and Rec’s life, so if they really want Brooklyn to succeed, they should drop it behind New Girl.

All that being said, if you want to watch a funny show, that has all the potential in the world to get even better, you should check out Brooklyn Nine-Nine

About Russ Stevens

Russ Stevens is an editor and writer at Rookerville and a guidance counselor at Nyack HS. He mostly writes about either loving or hating things. In his spare time, he performs Improv comedy with his troupe Priest and The Beekeeper and is a co-producer of their monthly variety show Pig Pile. He loves all the New York sports teams that are historically bad, and he hates lateness more than anything in the world.

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