Here’s to the Nine-Nine!

Getting home late from work that night – still a bit confused after having been accused of “racism, racism, raaaaaacism/racism baby” for the first time in my life, by an african-american young lady – but this is a story for another time – I started my usual ritual: taking a long shower, burning incense, preparing myself a cigarette and a few songs to go with it, getting in the mood. As I was scrolling up and down on Instagram, I got to a post from Joe LoTrutuglio: a photo of all cast members with the message: “Where it all began. Take nothing for granted. Look around at the love. Be thankful. It all goes by so fast, kids.”

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And then it hit me. They might have actually been cancelled and there might not be a 6th…

And this incredible amount of sadness enfolded me. I could not believe it, I refused to. And I didn’t think that anyone would understand what I was going through. But more messages came, some of disappointment, others of rage, all asking the same thing: “Bring back Brooklyn Nine-Nine!” So it was happening. It was really over. I felt an unbelievable urge to open the window and shout from the top of my lungs, to let someone know how important this show was to me, how much joy it brought and some of the numerous reasons why I needed it in my life, so I thought “Screw that jazz” and did a little research looking for others with symilar…urges.

I had a feeling that many would try to fight for this show to go on. Aaaaaaaand “my hunch, my hunch, my lovely casey hunch” was right!

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(“what you’re gonna do with all that hunch/all that hunch inside your brain/I’m gon’ gon’ gon’ solv’ this case/solve this care up in your face” I said to myself, like a normal person)

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Turns out that there were a lot of petitions contesting FOX’s decision and asking HULU, NETFLIX, HBO or practically ANYONE to please please please pick it up. I myself asked everyone I knew to sign “for their sake, for our sake, for the sake of this great nation” and then, the most beautiful and unexpected thing happened: NBC tweeted “We got your SIX!” and rescued the show (and me, from the first stages of depression) after only one day of cancellation. Hear that, bitches? Nine-Nine is going to last forever!

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Maybe because I grew up with a police-man as a dad and this particular dad was the coolest person I knew, had owned a gun and would tell me criminology-related stories or teach me how to shoot, maybe because we had a huge section in our home library dedicated just to cop/detective and mystery books, maybe because I’ve always been a sucker for comedies and goofy humor (Leslie Nielsen’s Naked gun, Police squad! and Armand Assante’s Fatal instinct come to mind), or maybe because I relate so well with the menthor-mentee relationship – I myself having craved for approval from people I looked up to, or maybe, just maybe because deep down I am a straight-up Peralta (well…maybe minus the fact that I have no idea what Die Hard is) and deeper down, such a Boyle…- needless to say how much I also like using the word ‘succulent’ – I hopelessly fell in love with Brooklyn Nine-Nine and absolutely everything it stands for.

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From cold opens to Fred Armisen’s cameo appearance dancing to a traditional song about a dog losing his virginity,  to Gina who, once hiding from Charles, left on her desk nothing but a piece of paper that said “gone leaving”, to Gina’s “Gina knows best” hoodie, or Gina’s “Gina in a bottle” signature fragrance, or Gina getting hit by a truck, from Boyle’s “shampoo her/his hair” obsessive response for every couple-related question, to Capt. Holt’s “Everything is garbage” speach, from the “never meet your hero” moments throughout the show, to Amy’s “fun, but not too fun” prom queen campaign slogan…or Amy’s actual brag about having been voted “most likely to befriend a school administrator”, from Jake’s impersonations and accents to Terry having a hard time building a doll house (on wheels!!) for his twin daughters, everything is genuine playfulness. But it is so much more than that: a beautifully written script, a wonderful and talentated team,  it’s Andy Samberg, it’s Andre Braugher, it’s a little bit of pizzazz here and there and even a little bit of John Philip Sousa, “the Skrillex of his day”. And it’s personal and social struggle. Also, who would’ve known that dangling prepositions and annunciated denunciations are an actual thing? And who would’ve known who Diane Weist is?

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And here we are, one week later, waiting impatiently as tonight FOX will be airing Season’s 5 last episode, Jake and Amy’s wedding, an episode so much more emotional to watch given the fact that we almost lost them.

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But the precinct will not be shut down, although there will not be a Season 6 until mid 2019. On NBC.

Until then…”did you know there’s a sausage you can drink?”

Nine-Nine!

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