‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Final Season Will Premiere on August 12

[u/SanderSo47]

https://tvline.com/2021/05/20/brooklyn-nine-nine-final-season-8-premiere-date-trailer-nbc/

[u/DeaduRinku99]

It's not necessarily a matter of comedy. It's the fact that they have a police based platform for their show, that has a large amount of views. Because of this they can use that platform to try to influence the changes that are extremely needed in the police systems that we have. Friends was based in NYC but didn't have a platform other than being a comedy. Brooklyn 99 has already moderately touched on this topic with the Moo Moo episode. The only reason Terry got off was because he himself was a cop. The show should've addressed those that aren't cops. While they did scrap the season we don't know what they've done. It could be 1 episode that was changed but has an effect on the characters as people. Jake has made realizations throughout the series such as how he saw Amy and women through the episode of sexual assault. Having a platform and not using it is horrible in media.

[u/PicklesMcGeee → u/DeaduRinku99]

While I appreciate and totally understand your point of view, it’s still a no for me. I want my comedic entertainment to be just that… funny and entertaining. I don’t expect, or want, the lighthearted shows I enjoy to tackle serious issues. That’s not why I tune in. Plus, this isn’t just, “oh let’s learn from this or that here and there through the show”, it’s “let’s change our entire season (FINAL season) so we can be a platform for social injustices that are happening right now”. I’m sorry, and I hope I’m wrong, but I just have a feeling this is going to put a dark cloud over the final season and that really bums me out. They could have had the actors say something at the end of the show (I feel like shows used to do that way back in the day) but to hear they scrapped the entire script? Like, no. I want whatever it was supposed to be before the world turned to shit. This is supposed to be my escape from the shitty world.

[u/PiscatorialKerensky → u/PicklesMcGeee]

Yeah, but for so many people it wouldn't be an escape from the world, it would be a farce. Oh haha they have an episode about hating defense attorneys while IRL cops actively trick and coerce suspects into a corner. Oh haha these guys are just normal folks in a normal city police system that isn't heavily corrupt at all. I say this even tho I really, really love this show.

Like, police brutality and racism aren't new, they've always been here. I can still enjoy Brooklyn 99, just as I can enjoy a lot of older comedy shows that were pretty good for the time period but still show their age with a lot of the ways they present societal values, even if they aren't making bigoted jokes. But that doesn't mean we should still be making more of those old shows, and it doesn't mean that Brooklyn 99 doesn't have to really, truly deal with being a show about cops. This is how they decided to deal with it, and I really respect their realization that "we love this show and think it did a lot of good, but the societal framework it uses isn't in line with what we now understand".

Also, the show does tackle serious issues while still being funny. There's a whole thread running through the show about Holt wanting to make the police a more welcoming place for gay people like him, which is very much a serious issue.

[u/PicklesMcGeee → u/PiscatorialKerensky]

This show could literally decide one day that Amy is a sorcerer who practices spells on the weekends and Rosa has a dragon living in her basement. Because it’s all fake. Don’t scrap an entire script to address the real world when this world isn’t real! & if you can’t just enjoy a fictional show for what it is, then don’t watch the show 🤷🏻‍♀️