Brooklyn 99 (TV Series, Seasons 2 and 3)
Dec. 5th, 2017 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroThe continued adventures of Jake Peralta and the detectives of the 9-9. Which are still funny.
Nice how they manage the supporting cast by bringing people's significant others / private lives in and out of storylines. They do a bunch of Kevin stories, then get a lot of good Holt drama out of sending Kevin to France for six months. They get solid storylines with several characters' significant others, then end those relationships when they've run their course.
I also appreciate that they manage to pair off different characters with differing relationships to each other, and make plots out of each type of interplay. Rosa/Jake produces a completely different vibe (and style of humor) from Rosa/Holt, but both really work.
Season 3 starts off weak—the interactions with The Vulture as the captain are often more cringy than actually funny. Which is particularly irritating given they managed to avoid that so well in the first two seasons. Once he's gone and Wunch stops showing up, everything hits a more even keel.
And as much as I'd like to think of myself as any other character, I'm totally Charles. And Jethrien is more Amy than anything. (“There's a binder!? Why didn't you lead with that?”)
Overall: I don't actually have much commentary beyond “this is funny, it made me laugh and I enjoyed it.”
Nice how they manage the supporting cast by bringing people's significant others / private lives in and out of storylines. They do a bunch of Kevin stories, then get a lot of good Holt drama out of sending Kevin to France for six months. They get solid storylines with several characters' significant others, then end those relationships when they've run their course.
I also appreciate that they manage to pair off different characters with differing relationships to each other, and make plots out of each type of interplay. Rosa/Jake produces a completely different vibe (and style of humor) from Rosa/Holt, but both really work.
Season 3 starts off weak—the interactions with The Vulture as the captain are often more cringy than actually funny. Which is particularly irritating given they managed to avoid that so well in the first two seasons. Once he's gone and Wunch stops showing up, everything hits a more even keel.
And as much as I'd like to think of myself as any other character, I'm totally Charles. And Jethrien is more Amy than anything. (“There's a binder!? Why didn't you lead with that?”)
Overall: I don't actually have much commentary beyond “this is funny, it made me laugh and I enjoyed it.”
