Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Sal's Pizza

LADIEZ IS PIMPS TOO
I still need to finish my TV-every-night blogging, but I just needed to share fifteen seconds of amazingness from last week's Brooklyn Nine-Nine:



A Breakdown of the Amazingness

1. Terry Crews is a brilliant, brilliant man and I would watch this show for his scenes alone.
   
   
2. Andre Braugher, as the captain to Crews's sergeant, plays off that moment perfectly. His character is typically deadpan, and in contrast with the oft-times too-sincere lunacy of Crews's character, it's kind of perfect.
   
   (Note: I wanted to say "the straight man," but as Braugher's character is very specifically a gay man who is finally in charge of his own precinct after years of steady, unquestionable work, I thought that would either be too on-the-nose as an ironic pun, or too oblivious-sounding.)
   
   
3. These are three men of color, all in one scene together, and well, let me just direct you to Sonia Saraiya's article: Fox is changing the landscape for black men on TV. The fact that they're two black men working together adds some subtext and depth to their interactions, but it's never an explicit conversation.
   
   Similarly, in another of the episode's storylines, the two detectives played by Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero, could very well have been about how two Hispanic women might have struggled in their particular line of work, but instead is very rooted in the characters as we know them. The demographics add layers, but aren't the story. I love it.
   
   
4. BABIES CAN'T BRUSH THEIR TEETH.

This show is taking some time to settle in--it's still crazy-uneven sometimes, and Samberg is the least interesting part of it, despite being the star--but it does make me laugh sometimes.