Poor audiences, Golden Globée twice, increasing quality, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a bit of a surprise this year in terms of comedy.If we were to take stock of the audiences for 5 years, we would see that many series are painful to see, Brooklyn Nine-Nine miraculously survived its season 1 with audiences peaking at 3 million. New Girl, its lead-in, being responsible for these figures, we cannot say that the series is catastrophic. Strangely, people don't come to the show more when it's been awarded two Golden Globes for the show and lead actor (Andy Samberg) or when it's been thrust into the spotlight after a post-Superbowl airing. No, Brooklyn Nine-Nine did not shine and yet the reviews are positive and the series is perhaps the best comedy of the year.
You had to get up early to bet on Andy Samberg and the Brooklyn Nine-Nine series in the same way as New Girl, which pursues almost the same destiny. Zooey Deschanel's allergy sufferers had a hard time when the series was just an irritating Zooey Show and then turned into a well-made show. B99 follows the same path. After a few stammering episodes, the series has gained in quality, in rigor and the characters have imposed themselves step by step. We even forget the worn camera side to go in a more square diagram by forgetting its own fundamentals. Brooklyn Nine-Nine has shown many qualities over the course of the episodes, notably with a freewheeling Andy Samberg who gave it his all and put water in his wind to support his colleagues.
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Michael Schur and Dan Goor, screenwriters of the late The Office, managed to transform a somewhat messy series into a real team comedy. The character of Captain Holt is the character who managed to thwart the pitfalls of the monoexpressive character to become one of the funniest characters on the show. This development was beneficial to the series whose sum of the parts was still less than the whole. From now on, B99 is an effective set-show, with oiled and functional mechanisms.
Andy Samberg finds a role to his measure and allows himself welcome fantasies when necessary. If the series lived through him, Brooklyn Nine-Nine managed to make the rest of the team live independently of him. The character played by Andy Samberg, Jake Peralta, has become a less free electron than at the start and also exists through the eyes and actions of the other characters and vice versa. And what would a series be without love-interest? B99 brings Santiago and Peralta together in a pattern reminiscent of fond memories of a mid-decade Jim/Pam.
The end of the season was conducive to this pleasant red thread which gave an additional cachet that we thought was devoid of feelings. This first season ends with new threads that will prove decisive for the future. Renewed last March, the series will have to play on new dynamics with a Peralta on the cover and an embarrassed Amy Santiago. If the ratings continue in the same direction as this year, it will be difficult to survive another year, or even an entire season. New Girl will live its last year and it is hard to see Brooklyn Nine-Nine changing box unless it is left to die quietly on Friday.
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With intrigues that are never light, always fresh, Brooklyn Nine-Nine succeeds in recreating this group dynamic that we had more in The Office during the final seasons. Incursions into the private life of the characters or changes of scenery manage to revive the series perpetually. If it could create appointments such as festive meals or training-day, the series would gain in sympathy, attractiveness and consistency. The series never forgets its characters, and even its stakes installed from the start such as the race for results between Santiago and Peralta or the team management by Jeffords (impeccable and amazing Terry Crews). Served by excellent supporting roles (the very The Officers Scully and Hitchcock, Gina, Rosa and Boyle, each lit in their own way), Brooklyn Nine-Nine has constantly improved and drawn on its own experience to rectify the shooting at the start of the season and becoming a staple of ensemble comedies. And then when Brooklyn Nine-Nine allows itself to be a series of which we sing the credits AND the end panels (Not a doctor, shh, FREMULOOOOON), we cannot say no.
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