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shallowness) wrote2022-04-24 02:05 pm
shallowness) wrote2022-04-24 02:05 pm
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Back to the precinct
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back on All4, and its eighth series will be its last. The first made me happy, the second made me a little sad.
8.1 and 8.2
I’m presuming these first two episodes aired in the States last year. E4 has pretty much always aired episodes as double bills weekly. My overall reaction was a little melancholy and I think some of that was because these episodes were of their moment, and several months on and in a different continent, I get that they had to face Covid and Black Lives Matter and applaud how they did it while bringing ridiculous comedy – I laughed, I did. But with Rosa no longer a cop, Hitchcock having retired – even if both were around – and Holt’s personal life a mess, it carried the sadness of 2020-21, although I absolutely can’t fault this show for facing up to BLM and American policing. And I applaud the show for the way it did it, with Jake having to face his own defensiveness over Rosa’s choice and Charles over-compensating in front of Terry. At the same time, we had Jake getting to dress up as his fake character, Terry pretending the sex book wasn’t his and the opening to the episode/series was funny.
Amy trying to make Ramy a thing, trying to get thing back on an even keel with Holt after her extended, weird maternity leave was a totally legitimate plotline, but I felt cheated of one or two lines about her response to Rosa becoming a PI.
I was glad that they faced the Ray and Kevin separation and Jake’s OTT need to fix it, even though I will gloss over where Jake’s need for his work daddies to be together led him vis a vis Amy.
The mating calls and the deadpan way they played it was funny, as was high! Rosa hanging with Scully. (Is there a Doylian reason for Hitchcock’s retirement and the actor joining via video conference?) I liked seeing mama bear/overfussy Amy balanced against Charles.
So, I laughed, but and I’m glad we have a final season, but I was not really where the show was at, and will acknowledge that as well as the timeshift and geography, some of that is my privileges. This may be the first fictional show I’m invested in that has had to face Covid etc realistically instead of escaping it for various reasons, which says something about the shows I watch. (One of those shows that has blanked the pandemic out being Killing Eve. I have watched the final two episodes – I felt obliged to to avoid spoilers, so I’ll post about them eventually.
Okay, I'm tagging this as 'tv in 2022', which is how I experienced it, but also as 'tv pre-2022' because that's relevant too.
[Edited for typos 14/1/25.]
8.1 and 8.2
I’m presuming these first two episodes aired in the States last year. E4 has pretty much always aired episodes as double bills weekly. My overall reaction was a little melancholy and I think some of that was because these episodes were of their moment, and several months on and in a different continent, I get that they had to face Covid and Black Lives Matter and applaud how they did it while bringing ridiculous comedy – I laughed, I did. But with Rosa no longer a cop, Hitchcock having retired – even if both were around – and Holt’s personal life a mess, it carried the sadness of 2020-21, although I absolutely can’t fault this show for facing up to BLM and American policing. And I applaud the show for the way it did it, with Jake having to face his own defensiveness over Rosa’s choice and Charles over-compensating in front of Terry. At the same time, we had Jake getting to dress up as his fake character, Terry pretending the sex book wasn’t his and the opening to the episode/series was funny.
Amy trying to make Ramy a thing, trying to get thing back on an even keel with Holt after her extended, weird maternity leave was a totally legitimate plotline, but I felt cheated of one or two lines about her response to Rosa becoming a PI.
I was glad that they faced the Ray and Kevin separation and Jake’s OTT need to fix it, even though I will gloss over where Jake’s need for his work daddies to be together led him vis a vis Amy.
The mating calls and the deadpan way they played it was funny, as was high! Rosa hanging with Scully. (Is there a Doylian reason for Hitchcock’s retirement and the actor joining via video conference?) I liked seeing mama bear/overfussy Amy balanced against Charles.
So, I laughed, but and I’m glad we have a final season, but I was not really where the show was at, and will acknowledge that as well as the timeshift and geography, some of that is my privileges. This may be the first fictional show I’m invested in that has had to face Covid etc realistically instead of escaping it for various reasons, which says something about the shows I watch. (One of those shows that has blanked the pandemic out being Killing Eve. I have watched the final two episodes – I felt obliged to to avoid spoilers, so I’ll post about them eventually.
Okay, I'm tagging this as 'tv in 2022', which is how I experienced it, but also as 'tv pre-2022' because that's relevant too.
[Edited for typos 14/1/25.]