Chelsea Peretti’s awesome and one of the best characters on the show in my opinion.
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Best new show? I have to question that. I do like the actors and enjoy the show but I do not recall ever laughing a big laugh at anything yet on the show. I think the concept was once an hr and 1/2 movie that they decided to drag out every cliche police joke and make it a series. Also Dads … how can 4 great actors make this such an unwatchable show
Well, they work together well. Braugher’s stoicism without Samberg’s manic performance would just be boring and unfunny. I think this show has a wonderful balance between straight and goofy characters. Braugher balances Samberg, Beatriz balances Joe Lo Truglio, etc. The show leans towards more of the silly side (but, as pointed out above that the silliness doesn’t fall into stupid humor), but you have enough ‘straight guys’ to get a good mix.
Personally, I really enjoy Samberg’s Peralta. He’s incredibly silly, but in a fairly realistic way - I’ve met people who have that same sort of charismatic silliness.
This is definitely my favourite new show – like The Office or 30 Rock in a police station.
My favourite actor is Joe Lo Truglio. Everything he does is funny!
Pretty much everybody I’ve mentioned this show to is watching and loving it. I enjoy it far more than I expected to, and it’s one of the few sitcoms I still watch. (If fact, I think it’s 50% of all the sitcoms I watch. :)) For some reason, Terry Crews completely cracks me up with almost every word out of his mouth, and Andre Braugher is just absolutely amazing.
Sure, it’s goofy and sometimes it’s a little silly, but it somehow feels fresher than most of the stuff I’m seeing these days.
I tried watching the more touted new sitcoms, like the ones with Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes. Let me summarize them. Sitcom cliche line, sitcom cliche scene, sitcom cliche character, sitcom cliche plot. The end.
The only two that weren’t straightout cliches were The Crazy Ones and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. They’re oddly alike once you dig beneath the surface. Both have goofball comedians as stars, but the plot usually plays against their goofiness and they are far more self-deprecating than expected. Both are single camera shows without being fake documentaries. Both have outstanding supporting casts. Both nod to sitcom cliches but spend as much time rejecting them.
The Crazy Ones is spoiled by Sarah Michelle Geller, who either can’t act at all or is totally miscast. Dump her and bring back Brad Garrett who makes every scene funny.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is allowing its characters to become slightly more human and less crazed caricatures but the in-office hijinks are still too over-the-top. Good writing, though. The best of the new bunch by a hair, with lots of room to grow.
It’s the best show on the air that doesn’t star H. Jon Benjamin.
Trophy Wife is also pretty good. Check it out if you haven’t.
Strangely enough, I find you can just turn the channel at 8:30 (or set your DVR) and not have to see a single moment of “Dads”.
I also like The Goldbergs, which is, I think, on before Trophy Wife.
I love 99 and I love The Goldbergs even more. Embrace the silly, the precinct isn’t in the real world, it’s in a sitcom. And it’s wonderful.
Best thing on TV right now. I get where you are coming from, though. At first you think that the whole thing is just a protracted SNL sketch about a police detective who acts like Jim Carrey, but once you start getting it, it’s just plain wonderful.
And Lo Truglio totally steals the show,
I am loving Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Andre Braugher is one of my favorite actors. He is the only reason I gave this show a chance, and I’m so glad I did. His character in this is very like the character Frank Pembleton from Homicide: Life on the Streets, only played for laughs.
The Goldbergs doesn’t work for me. Ideally, Brooklyn Nine Nine and The Goldbergs would swap timeslots. Then I could watch Agents of Shield, Brooklyn Nine Nine, and Trophy Wife in a row. Now I watch Agents of Shield and catch Brooklyn Nine Nine the next day on Hulu.
Everyone be aware that Brooklyn 99 is moving to 9:30 Tuesdays.
I really enjoy the show too.
Looking at the ratings, I notice that Brooklyn Nine Nine has significantly better numbers than Dads - and all the shows they’re up against are hour long shows. That means people are either watching the first half of another show or leaving their TV off before watching Brooklyn Nine Nine at 8:30. They’re making a conscious decision to not watch Dads.
Are these promos indicative?
They certainly seem to look like the show. It’s hard to judge how accurate the content is however.
Did you like the promos?
Pretty much. The last two moreso than the first two. The cold opens sometimes are just improv game-type scenes like the 3rd promo. Last week it was one of the officers coming in and saying they had a wonderful weekend with Kelly at the park but it’s unclear if Kelly was his dog or his wife so they ask questions.
What’s Kelly’s favorite food? Peanut butter.
What’s Kelly’s favorite thing to do at the park? Just walk around but it’s hard to do after she was hit by that car.
What was she doing that she got hit by the car? Getting the morning paper.
Sometimes she eats it right out of the jar!
Given the availability of 200+ channels, Video on Demand, or DVR-ed shows, people aren’t necessarily watching 1/2 of another show and leaving to watch B99. Lots of 30 minute options out there, assuming someone didn’t start an hour show off the DVR at 7:45. Most viewers are no longer chained to the schedule.
But yes, they are rightly making a conscious decision to not watch Dads. Every actor on that show should be renting, not buying…and they should leave it off their resumes.