Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an American sitcom created by Daniel Goor and Michael Schur. The series is created in the genre of a police comedy and is considered one of the best comedy series about police officers. The show began on September 17, 2013, on Fox and ran until September 16, 2021, with eight seasons and 153 episodes filmed. Although the series is a high-quality comedy sitcom, however, some important topics are raised in it. In the first episode of the first season, the author shows how a young and infantile, although talented detective begins to understand his harsh new boss, and introduces the rabid characters.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a comedy series about a young, gifted detective who has to collaborate with a new boss. The childish behavior characterizes the main character (a young detective), and the new boss works strictly according to the rules, which formulates conflict and comical situations (Netflix, 2021). In the first episode of the first season, the author shows the main characters and their features and builds a clash between the protagonist and the new boss (Netflix, 2021). The intended audience can be of any age, starting from the conscious one, although it seems to be most interesting to young people. The series covers a wide range of audiences as it talks about topics interesting to everyone: relationships with bosses, colleagues, and success at work.
The purpose of the first episode coincides with the author’s goal of the entire series: namely, to show how a childish young man changes over time. Thus, at the beginning of the first episode, the detective tried in every possible way to subvert his boss, ridiculing his desire for severity. However, at the end of the episode, Jake (the main character) understands why the boss forced him to wear a tie. Moreover, he learned the prehistory of the new boss and was imbued with him, brilliantly completing the task and finding the necessary information in the archive. Accordingly, the director’s main thesis is to show Jake’s change for the better through interaction with the team and the boss.
Through natural characters and comic situations, the author inspires credibility in the background and in the director, showing the hero in real circumstances. The principal claim of the director is that no matter how irresponsible the hero may be, one can always turn out to be better than he seems. Even though this is only the first episode, one may notice some of the author’s conclusions. They consist of the fact that the main character made the right conclusions with sufficient information and a clear conscience despite childish behavior. The evidence used by the director is the scene at the end of the first episode when Jake says he got it all. Thereby, Jake understood the goals of the new boss and realized mistakes, showing a change in the main hero’s behavior for the better.
In the context of the methods of analysis used by the director, one can designate those by which the main character was depicted. Considering that one may notice a change in his actions, one can conclude that comparative analysis was used. In other words, the author compares two models of the protagonist’s behavior: the initial and the final, moreover, the final model reflects changes for the better. One may also observe some contradictions with alternative interpretations of the problem: for example, when the main character does not change in any way, despite all the circumstances. In other words, the author pursued other goals, namely, to focus on changing the character for the better, showing it in a comic form.
Further, one can conclude that the author has achieved the main goal: to display the character change, and the director’s thesis has been proven. One can make such a conclusion considering the initial scenes of interaction with the new boss and the final ones. The series seems convincing since it has inartificial characters, natural reactions, and truthful comic situations. In order to attract a larger audience, it seems that one may focus more attention on mature characters. Thus, the series would have hooked the youth spectrum of viewers and the older part. The use of evidence is adequate since everyone can project it onto oneself since changing for the better is inherent for many people. However, one may also notice a certain issue related to the supply of evidence.
The problem lies in the character’s behavior changing too quickly, thus, the scene at the end of the episode, which is evidence of this change, also falls under this. Namely, it may seem that more events should have happened before the change in the protagonist’s behavior. However, this is neutralized by the fact that it is a comedy series, and some overdoing can be tolerated. The structure of the idea corresponds to the norms of order since there is a display of the initial model of behavior firstly, then the influencing events, and after this a change in behavior. The series is worth watching when one wants to relax and unwind, and one will not be disappointed in the quality and ideas.
As a result, one might conclude that the show is a quality comedy sitcom about cops. The author achieved his primary purpose: to reflect the change in the hero’s behavior for the better, which was noticed in the first episode. Moreover, funny and natural characters are involved, the features of which are the basis of comic situations in the series.
Reference
Netflix. (2013). Web.