TMC
01-19-2019, 09:00 PM
https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/brooklyn-nine-nine-hitchcock-scully.html
Sure, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller's characters are "paragons of mediocrity who failed upward and are living in a changed world they can’t fully understand," says Marissa Martinelli. "But they work so well on the show because they occupy a middle ground between the two, neither villains nor saints, just buffoons. It helps that there are two of them, too: Their colleagues might be cruel and their home lives might be a mess, but Hitchcock and Scully always have each other—and, as it turns out, they’re happy to be underestimated together." ALSO: Stephanie Beatriz finds it hilarious that the bisexual woman on Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the "straight man." (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/arts/television/brooklyn-nine-nine-stephanie-beatriz-rosa-diaz.html)
Sure, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller's characters are "paragons of mediocrity who failed upward and are living in a changed world they can’t fully understand," says Marissa Martinelli. "But they work so well on the show because they occupy a middle ground between the two, neither villains nor saints, just buffoons. It helps that there are two of them, too: Their colleagues might be cruel and their home lives might be a mess, but Hitchcock and Scully always have each other—and, as it turns out, they’re happy to be underestimated together." ALSO: Stephanie Beatriz finds it hilarious that the bisexual woman on Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the "straight man." (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/arts/television/brooklyn-nine-nine-stephanie-beatriz-rosa-diaz.html)