And I've got to say, even with all the praise this show has received (particularly on reddit), it's consistent quality is vastly underrated.
Jake (Andy Samberg) has managed to develop into a good character while keeping the same sense of humor. High praise from me since I couldn't make it through half of Hot Rod. And I rank Dodgeball as one of my favorite movies.
Amy is still a bit neurotic but flexible. The actress (Melisaa Fumero) is really very good at showing a range of emotion, and feels very genuine. I'm surprised I've never seen her before.
Captain Holt manages to be a gay black captain without coming off as some sort of prop for jokes or belittled. Really he's the way I think homosexual characters should be treated in television. His sexuality is shown as no weirder than any other character trait, he is treated fairly by those close to him and is protected by his friends and family, yet strong enough that he doesn't really need it.
Terry Jeffords (Terry Crews) is every bit as good as I could had heard. The episode where he gets harassed by a white cop was powerful, even if the other cop was a bit of a strawman. It's a half hour show, not like there's time to introduce a nuanced sub character. Terry's interactions with Holt were FANTASTIC in that episode.
Gina Linetti (Chelsea Peretti) is a great balance to all the more serious characters. In the few episodes when she left on maternity leave (after the actress had a baby with her real life husband Jordan Peele), you really could miss her.
Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz) is bad ass and stays that way. Her romance are with Adrian Pimento was great. I'm sorry he's off the show now; but the show has handled her bisexuality very well.
Charles Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) is absolutely perfect in his role as dedicated father, foodie, and Jake fan-boy, without being grating; which is a tough balance.
Scully and Hitchcock make for great background characters that never seem to progress. But that's kind of the point of them. They put in their time and are just waiting for retirement, so the fact that they don't develop feels perfectly natural.
Somehow the show has managed to go 5 seasons without becoming a caricature of itself. The characters have been consistent, while still developing, the emotion in the right scenes is powerful (for a comedy) and the humor is thoughtful and perverted, all at the same time. I'm really impressed by whomever put the show together.
But the thing that I like the most is that Jake and Amy's relationship has never gone through the stupid clichés that television almost always uses. No arguments that could have been resolved by simple communication, no empty misunderstandings of common issues, no trying to change each other out of some thinly veiled attempt at drama. You have two people who clearly love each other, respect each other, and support each other. It's a healthy relationship between two very different people, which you don't see much of on television anymore.
Anyway, this is a lot longer than I'd intended. 99!
Submitted December 30, 2017 at 01:33PM by AccidentallyUpvotes http://ift.tt/2DB4pli
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