![]() The good news is, though, whatever a single half-hour broadcast comedy could possibly do to chip away at America’s hero-cop mythology, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is, in this final season, committed to at least trying. Bad news: Brooklyn Nine-Nine is still a cop show. But it’s hard to argue, even in light of the shitshow that was 2020, a left turn that sharp would be staying true to the characters-nevermind the personal, socially conscious growth they’ve all dedicated themselves to for the last eight years. It was nice to dream about Jake, Rosa and the rest of the 9-9 resigning en masse to, I dunno, start a pizza empire or something. On the other, though, I don’t know what more we could reasonably have expected. The bad news is, for all the fun fans and critics had imagining the most audacious turns the series might take to get away from the taint of the NYPD- USPIS, anyone?- Brooklyn Nine-Nine still looks committed to ending its run as a cop show. ![]() Having screened the first five episodes of this final season, I can officially say: I have good news, and I have bad news. Still, with only a 10-episode order in hand to tell that Season 8 story, and a literal century of collaboration between cops and Hollywood to confront while doing so, it was at the same time hard to imagine how they might possibly pull it all off. Given the series’ consistently progressive approach to what justice both can and should look like-well, and the fact that Goor, together with the cast, donated $100,000 to the National Bail Fund Network, stating explicitly that they “condemn the murder of George Floyd and support the many people who are protesting police brutality nationwide”-it was easy to imagine what direction that new story might take. Already deep into the writing process for what will be the series’ final season when the Black Lives Matter protests kicked into high gear last summer, the creative team (as star Terry Crews told Access Daily in late June), made the decision to scrap the four episodes of Season 8 they had already broken in order to start a new story from scratch. Unsurprisingly, this is a sentiment that showrunner Dan Goor, along with the rest of the creative team behind B99, both empathized with and anticipated. I can’t speak for every longstanding Brooklyn Nine-Nine fan out there, but even in the darkest moments of the winter surge, the very last thing I wanted to do was queue up Jake Peralta’s Greatest Hits. The conditions in our actual timeline being, of course, the murder of George Floyd, the righteous anti-police protest movement of mid-to-late 2020, and the damning sea of copaganda all those goofs, gags and mutually supportive hangs were swimming around in. ![]() Full of warmhearted goofs, silly running gags, and the kind of mutually supportive workplace friend group that just about everyone in the world has either been too socially isolated (working from home) or too hazardously harried (working on the pandemic front lines) to be able to enjoy IRL since March of 2020, the NBC ( née FOX) comedy could well have been a binge-y balm during some truly dark times.Ĭould have been. ![]() – Rappler.In another timeline, I imagine a lot more of us would have spent our pandemic winter mainlining Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The Golden Globe-winning TV series stars Andy Samberg, Andre Braugher, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz, Joe Lo Truglio, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller. It was quickly saved by NBC, which picked the series up for a 6th and 7th season in February 2019. In 2018, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was dropped by its original network Fox after 5 seasons. The #Brooklyn99 squad will be coming back for Season 8 on NBC! /bQsGYA4oG9- Brooklyn Nine-Nine November 14, 2019 The #Brooklyn99 squad will be coming back for Season 8 on NBC,” the post wrote. On Thursday, November 14, the show’s official Twitter page posted an adorable clip of the Nine-Nine cast excitedly receiving the renewal news during a table reading. MANILA, Philippines – The 9-9 is here to stay! In an early move, NBC renewed hit cop comedy show Brooklyn Nine-Nine for an 8th season, months before season 7’s Februpremiere.
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