crhodey replied to your post “soooooooo am I the only person who doesn’t wanna let themselves like...”
So in the fourth season they had several episodes that addressed race a lot more directly. The one that sticks in my mind was one where Terry Crews gets profiled by a fellow cop and arrested at his own home, and the whole precinct (inc the captain) have to deal with it (and his young daughters' reactions to it). The show 10000% isn't perfect and could do better here, but I think unfortunately they did it after you stopped watching.
https://people.com/tv/terry-crews-brooklyn-nine-nine-racial-profiling-episode/ (Also you're 100000% not wrong to be thinking that you're uncomfortable with the show because of this, and you're also def not alone. Coming from a place of privilege myself, I struggle with it too and I know a lot of my friends do as well.)
I heard about that one and actually watched about half of it, but I couldn’t finish it after Terry confronted the racist cop and he refused to apologize and then Holt doubled down by being a real pig stooge and not supporting Terry when he wanted to file a complaint. Too current, too real, too much for me to laugh at. I’m sure they resolved it in a way that made it all okay but I’m just not in the business of sugarcoating one of the biggest problems in America.
moustachesploosh replied to your post “soooooooo am I the only person who doesn’t wanna let themselves like...”
i feel like this is a reason a good # of ppl are uncomfortable with the show. like, great comedy and it does have an episode here and there that addresses some thing but its also a show showcasing a dream world NYPD & ignoring a lot of problems with police force
Exactly. I read a few articles addressing just now on my lunch break and people seem pretty split - some love the escapism, and then there’s people like me who have had their vehicle’s carpeting ripped out by cops without a search warrant. I can’t giggle at Boyle eating weird food sorry. I’d be really impressed if they dealt with something like stop-and-frisk with one of the main characters. What if Boyle has the most stop-and-frisks of the whole precinct or something, and they realize that’s bad and talk to him about implicit bias? Something, anything like that. That’s the episode I wanna see.
