But the show is quietly breaking ground (it has yet to crack five million viewers) with one of the most ethnically diverse casts on broadcast television. Samberg’s star detective is a goofball but skilled investigator whose two bosses are black men—one of whom is gay—and two of his detective peers are Latinas. In the same way that ensemble dramas like “ER,” “Lost” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” paved the way for multiculturalism without tokenism, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” defies stereotypical comedic expectations and finds the humor in humanity—not skin color or ethnic background or sexual preference.
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This is really interesting to me because of the new comedies this season, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is consistently the funniest, so both the best new comedy and new drama (Sleepy Hollow) are being praised for their diversity, and yet, that’s not why I’m watching them. They aren’t coasting on having more PoC, they’re just plain good. And they’re absolutely proving wrong all those people who would claim that having PoC leads makes everything about race or that all the white-dominated shows just had the “best actors for the job”.
I think where Brooklyn 99 failed in bringing in its audience was its marketing; I went in expecting Samberg to be the typical annoying white male lead who gets away with everything by showing he’s smarter than everyone else and/or has his heart in the right place, and yeah, there’s a bit of that, but it’s so much more. I really did not think I would like it at all, let alone this much.