Brooklyn Nine-Ninewas never a colossal hit in its five years on Fox, and no one is probably expecting it to catch fire now that it’sstarted season 6 on NBC.But how good to know that this mood-brightening sitcom is still around — when Foxcanceled the show last May, no less than Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro demanded its return in a tweet: “Brooklyn Nine-Ninehas given us fully human characters, beautiful, powerful, flawed, vulnerable, majestic.” And this from a man who loves monsters!The newNine-Nineis very much the oldNine-Nine: It’s a celebration of a workplace community in which individual neuroses, flaws and eccentricities — problems that should hobble any office into dysfunction — somehow add up to a happy whole.It almost feels nostalgic, reminiscent of the still-missedParks and Recreation.And if you’ll pardon our reach, it’s patriotic: Our republic was founded on the belief that tiffs and squabbles can lead to healthy public resolution and accommodation. Now, instead, we have everyone ready to make a citizen’s arrest of everyone.What really counts, however, is the show’s zingy humor, which can involve coconuts filled with merlot and random jokes about Bonnie Bedelia inDie Hard.Welcome back!Brooklyn Nine-Ninereturns Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.
Brooklyn Nine-Ninewas never a colossal hit in its five years on Fox, and no one is probably expecting it to catch fire now that it’sstarted season 6 on NBC.
But how good to know that this mood-brightening sitcom is still around — when Foxcanceled the show last May, no less than Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro demanded its return in a tweet: “Brooklyn Nine-Ninehas given us fully human characters, beautiful, powerful, flawed, vulnerable, majestic.” And this from a man who loves monsters!
The newNine-Nineis very much the oldNine-Nine: It’s a celebration of a workplace community in which individual neuroses, flaws and eccentricities — problems that should hobble any office into dysfunction — somehow add up to a happy whole.
It almost feels nostalgic, reminiscent of the still-missedParks and Recreation.And if you’ll pardon our reach, it’s patriotic: Our republic was founded on the belief that tiffs and squabbles can lead to healthy public resolution and accommodation. Now, instead, we have everyone ready to make a citizen’s arrest of everyone.
What really counts, however, is the show’s zingy humor, which can involve coconuts filled with merlot and random jokes about Bonnie Bedelia inDie Hard.Welcome back!
Brooklyn Nine-Ninereturns Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.
source: people.com
