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Nov. 12th, 2013 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretHey, let me post about media I'm actually enjoying for a change!
Brooklyn 9-9 started off funny but imperfect, and it has gotten better since the start as characters have fallen into their grooves. The Andy Samberg/Andre Braugher dynamic is wonderful... with time, I think Braugher's Captain Holt has the potential to be like Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock, a senior statesman whose gravitas is more than the show deserves but who manages to fit seamlessly in the world of the show and make everyone around him funnier.
They've managed to take male/female buddy cop UST and turn it on its head with the relationship with Santiago, who probably will end up with Peralta in the endgame and I don't really think I'll mind. The show has already articulated their mutual attraction, and it has rejected a relationship anyway for sound reasons- Peralta completely does not deserve Santiago, and they both know it- while enacting a character arc that suggests Peralta may be able to grow into that relationship.
Meanwhile, Rosa and Terry are absolutely hilarious and so far they haven't pushed the Boyle jokes too far.
At the moment, I am watching three comedies: Parks and Rec, HIMYM, and this show. Parks and Rec I have more overall affection for because I've known the characters for longer, but that the moment I've been enjoying individual episodes of Brooklyn 9-9 more. HIMYM is just the disaster I can't look away from.
Brooklyn 9-9 started off funny but imperfect, and it has gotten better since the start as characters have fallen into their grooves. The Andy Samberg/Andre Braugher dynamic is wonderful... with time, I think Braugher's Captain Holt has the potential to be like Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock, a senior statesman whose gravitas is more than the show deserves but who manages to fit seamlessly in the world of the show and make everyone around him funnier.
They've managed to take male/female buddy cop UST and turn it on its head with the relationship with Santiago, who probably will end up with Peralta in the endgame and I don't really think I'll mind. The show has already articulated their mutual attraction, and it has rejected a relationship anyway for sound reasons- Peralta completely does not deserve Santiago, and they both know it- while enacting a character arc that suggests Peralta may be able to grow into that relationship.
Meanwhile, Rosa and Terry are absolutely hilarious and so far they haven't pushed the Boyle jokes too far.
At the moment, I am watching three comedies: Parks and Rec, HIMYM, and this show. Parks and Rec I have more overall affection for because I've known the characters for longer, but that the moment I've been enjoying individual episodes of Brooklyn 9-9 more. HIMYM is just the disaster I can't look away from.