Brooklyn 99
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osprey_archerI've just started watching Brooklyn 99, and you guys, where has this show been all my life? Okay, fine, it's been recced by basically everyone and I just ignored that until now because bad life choices sometimes exert an irresistible pull, but now! Now I have begun to watch it, and it's basically the funniest and I love everyone.
I love Rosa Diaz and her black leather aesthetic and the fact that she covers up her nervousness with RAGE (I may have punched the air when she admitted that being a courtroom witness made her nervous, because her character sort of clicked together for me at that moment), and I love Charles Boyle and his sad, sad crush on her (I don't want this crush to come to fruition, and actually I'm kind of hoping it dies out eventually because drawn out at length it would get tedious, but at the moment it's hilarious) and the fact that the show respects his detective skills despite his total lack of flair. He is, as Holt says at least twice, a grinder, but he does grind out case after case and it's solid police work even if it's not exciting.
And Holt! How much do I love Holt! I love his total deadpan at any and all times - I particularly like the bit where Amy Santiago gets an oil painting done of him and he's all "you would have me hang a Baroque oil painting of myself like I'm a North Korean dictator. What, no ornate gold frame? Why am I not astride my noble steed, clad in armor?"
And I'm digging Santiago's burning desire to turn Holt into her mentor, despite the fact that as yet he shows little interest in the position (I'm only eight episodes into the first season) - like this scene, where Captain Holt wants some information about a jackass reporter who's been hanging around the precinct and Santiago's not sure she should tell him:
Capt. Holt: I'm disappointed in you, Santiago. I thought you and I were close.
Santiago: I know you're manipulating me... (Santiago says, all shame-faced; and then her face lights up): But I love it, and I will tell you anything.
And her general totally uncool dweebishness, I'm just really feeling it.
The show is even winning me over to Jake Peralta, although I savor each and every time that Captain Holt smacks him down, because by God does he deserve it every single time. (The one fly in my ointment is the lowering presentiment that the show might be trying to set up Peralta and Santiago. NO SHOW DON'T DO IT.)
Also, no police brutality so far! Which is such a low bar for a cop show, oh my God, but I will take what I can get.
I love Rosa Diaz and her black leather aesthetic and the fact that she covers up her nervousness with RAGE (I may have punched the air when she admitted that being a courtroom witness made her nervous, because her character sort of clicked together for me at that moment), and I love Charles Boyle and his sad, sad crush on her (I don't want this crush to come to fruition, and actually I'm kind of hoping it dies out eventually because drawn out at length it would get tedious, but at the moment it's hilarious) and the fact that the show respects his detective skills despite his total lack of flair. He is, as Holt says at least twice, a grinder, but he does grind out case after case and it's solid police work even if it's not exciting.
And Holt! How much do I love Holt! I love his total deadpan at any and all times - I particularly like the bit where Amy Santiago gets an oil painting done of him and he's all "you would have me hang a Baroque oil painting of myself like I'm a North Korean dictator. What, no ornate gold frame? Why am I not astride my noble steed, clad in armor?"
And I'm digging Santiago's burning desire to turn Holt into her mentor, despite the fact that as yet he shows little interest in the position (I'm only eight episodes into the first season) - like this scene, where Captain Holt wants some information about a jackass reporter who's been hanging around the precinct and Santiago's not sure she should tell him:
Capt. Holt: I'm disappointed in you, Santiago. I thought you and I were close.
Santiago: I know you're manipulating me... (Santiago says, all shame-faced; and then her face lights up): But I love it, and I will tell you anything.
And her general totally uncool dweebishness, I'm just really feeling it.
The show is even winning me over to Jake Peralta, although I savor each and every time that Captain Holt smacks him down, because by God does he deserve it every single time. (The one fly in my ointment is the lowering presentiment that the show might be trying to set up Peralta and Santiago. NO SHOW DON'T DO IT.)
Also, no police brutality so far! Which is such a low bar for a cop show, oh my God, but I will take what I can get.
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Date: 2015-12-29 04:47 pm (UTC)Furthermore, one of the correctional officers I know at the jail is JUST LIKE Rosa--she looks like her, and she kind of acts like her (actually, she's much more sweet once she gets talking, but her exterior presentation is very like her), so the character rings true!
And I do love how affectionate the show is toward both Santiago and Boyle, who are celebrated, rather than mocked, for their dweebishness. And yeah, Holt's deadpan is awesome!
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Date: 2015-12-29 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-31 06:39 am (UTC)I liked Peralta from the start, but I think my incorrigible manchild tolerance levels are significantly higher than the norm. He's a well-written incorrigible manchild, anyway -- he gets called on his idiot shenanigans even when they get results, and he does grow up, albeit slowly.
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Date: 2015-12-31 04:56 pm (UTC)