Brooklyn Nine-Nine · Season 1 · Netflix
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 1
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.5/10. 22 episodes on Netflix from 17 September 2013.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 1 is a network sitcom pilot season that did everything right. Michael Schur and Dan Goor built a workplace comedy around a precinct - an unusually tonal choice, since the police procedural and the sitcom don't naturally coexist - and made it work by spending the entire first season establishing relationships rather than plots. Andy Samberg's Jake Peralta is a deliberately immature protagonist whose competence gradually emerges; Andre Braugher's Captain Holt is the show's formal anchor and its funniest character. The Golden Globe win for Best Comedy after Season 1 was the correct read.
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The Room
“Brooklyn Nine-Nine earns its laughs with a terrifically game ensemble and a genuine wit that elevates it above most network comedies.”
Rotten Tomatoes (critics consensus)
Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about — premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E1Pilot8.3
The pilot introduces the 99th precinct's cast with efficient comedy economy - every major character gets a defining moment within the first fifteen minutes. The Holt-Peralta dynamic is established immediately: the rigidly formal new captain and the detectve who has made a career of avoiding accountability. The pilot's case is light, but the character work is the actual pilot.
The moment: Holt's first interaction with Jake - the moment you understand exactly what the show is doing and that it will work.
“A promising ensemble comedy with a standout chemistry at its core.” — Rotten Tomatoes (critics consensus)