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Critic Reviews
Nov 27, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is fine as it is. Tell your DVR to book it. [9 Dec 2013, p.43]
IndieWireJan 11, 2019
Aug 12, 2021
Season 8 Review:
Bad news: Brooklyn Nine-Nine is still a cop show. The good news is, though, whatever a single half-hour broadcast comedy could possibly do to chip away at America’s hero-cop mythology, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is, in this final season, committed to at least trying. ... These episodes are just as joke-dense and fun as their funniest pre-Season 8 episodes have been, everyone from the main cast down to the guest stars putting in their full 9-9%.
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Jan 8, 2019
Season 6 Review:
The first two episodes feature a characteristic blend of low-brow humor (a running gag involving novelty T-shirts, including one boasting a picture of a thong-wearing pineapple and the word slut), detailed deconstruction of said low-brow humor (“Is the pineapple the slut, or is it calling someone a slut?”), office comedy (a turf war erupts over the break-room microwave), and unexpected literary references (Jake reads Walt Whitman--who knew?). It’s smart, silly, good-natured, and very Brooklyn.
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Sep 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Fortunately, you don't have to take the former SNL star too seriously to roll with Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a sitcom from the producers of Parks and Recreation that smartly pokes at police-show tropes and creates a promising comedy playground where the Motherlovin' jester can cut loose.
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Aug 12, 2021
Season 8 Review:
None of the five episodes provided for review contain any reasons for fans to turn it off, I'm happy to report. Indeed, the show incorporates our changed view of policing into a season-long arc involving McGinley while still finding time for farcical misadventures. ... It's about the people, and at the end of the day they still make the case that we can find comfort in hanging out with them for little while longer.
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ColliderFeb 6, 2020
Season 7 Review:
If there’s one downside to this new season is that you can figure out how most of it will play out just by watching these two episodes, which may feel repetitive to some viewers. But when the formula is so fun and the characters are such a delight to watch, why change it? If the premiere of Season 7 is any indication, we could do much worse than seeing the Nine-Nine get into new antics for the next couple of years.
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RogerEbert.comJan 9, 2019
Season 6 Review:
[The jokes are funny] but it’s a bit subdued. The upside is that the aforementioned emotional honesty comes through loud and clear, but one hopes that Nine-Nine will get a bit more of its usual pep in its step as the season progresses. If the writing and direction don’t always benefit from the subdued tone, the performances, and Braugher’s in particular, absolutely soar. Every member of the cast has timing that’s as good as ever.
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Sep 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The strength of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is in the way it summons the communal spirit of those shows [Parks and Recreation, The Office, and 30 Rock] to not only poke fun at crime-show clichés, but also reinterpret them with a fresh and idiosyncratic comedic point of view.
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Aug 12, 2021
Season 8 Review:
Some of the season’s episodes largely ignore the cultural context altogether. Each is compelling on its own, but there’s no overall sense of direction. ... Brooklyn Nine-Nine does the best job possible of acknowledging the problem with portraying cops as uncomplicated heroes while still remaining a good-natured, funny show, but it feels fitting, and fortunate, that this is its final season.
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Aug 11, 2021
Season 8 Review:
I was slightly dubious about how effective the show would be in making this pivot. In the end, though, it works pretty well. ... At the same time, there’s still a good deal of cognitive dissonance inherent to Brooklyn Nine-Nine. ... I’m happy that a sitcom that’s delivered so many hard laughs over the years has had the chance to go out on its own terms—nudging its audience toward a greater awareness of what other cop shows are trying to sell in the process.
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Sep 17, 2013
Aug 12, 2021
Season 8 Review:
It’s admittedly a bit much to ask Mike Schur and a bunch of comedians to try to dismantle the entire policing system brick by brick, especially over a single season of television. But the dissonance is still there, and not even our boys and girls in blue can ignore it any longer. They’re being thoughtful about it, but the jury’s still out as to whether that’s enough, or just (forgive me) a cop-out.
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ColliderSep 20, 2016
Season 4 Review:
If the show isn’t nearly as funny in the first two episodes of Season 4 as the excellent third season, it’s only because the entire cast isn’t together, volleying potent guffaws. For the most part, however, the comedy series feels the same while making minor changes in each episode.
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Sep 17, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The humor quotient in the pilot proves to be a mixed bag. The laugh lines come, but they're fairly inconsistent. Still, when they do hit--particularly during a canvassing door-knock scene that includes a Fred Armisen cameo--it's easy to see Brooklyn Nine-Nine's potential to develop into a good, maybe even great, prime-time comedy.
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Sep 13, 2013
Season 1 Review:
While there's a nice ensemble cast, Mr. Samberg is meant to steal the show and he does--although not often in a good way.... But the nearly laugh-less pilot of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is like one of those SNL sketches that doesn't work but you don't mind too much because it's possible the next sketch will be hilarious.
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