Man it's kinda hard to really enjoy B99 at the moment.
I have been thinking the only thing to do with that show at this point is go full Archer and just completely abandon premise and do a new thing with the same characters
It is literally the only thing that will bring me back, as someone who watched every season and has been a fan since it premiered
I have zero time for anything portraying cops and quirky, hilarious regular folks like you and I at this point in my life
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Have them all be working at a public library. Holt is the branch manager.
I wonder if/how B99 will handle everything that is going on with the protests.
For that matter, how the hell is any TV show going to handle the real world implications of Covid-19?
I fully expect them to acknowledge them with a BOY SOME COPS ARE BAD AND MAYBE WE HAVE TOO MUCH POWER BUT THANK GOODNESS THE 99 IS SO LOVABLE episode and that's about it
I wonder if/how B99 will handle everything that is going on with the protests.
For that matter, how the hell is any TV show going to handle the real world implications of Covid-19?
I trust the B99 team on this. I honestly think they've laid groundwork to cover police corruption in depth. literally every character on the show has been affected negatively by it either in their backstory or in the show proper.
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I wonder if/how B99 will handle everything that is going on with the protests.
For that matter, how the hell is any TV show going to handle the real world implications of Covid-19?
I trust the B99 team on this. I honestly think they've laid groundwork to cover police corruption in depth. literally every character on the show has been affected negatively by it either in their backstory or in the show proper.
The problem is that the issue right now isn't police corruption
It is that the police, as an entire organization and power structure, are fundamentally broken and corrupt and cannot continue as is
For that matter, how the hell is any TV show going to handle the real world implications of Covid-19?
I'm currently in a writers room, and the general consensus is, "Nobody wants to be reminded of The Big Inescapable Thing in their escapism." Characters are gonna be broker than usual, struggling to find their feet again after losing work, but there ain't gonna be a quarantine bottle episode or anything interminable like that.
It's a no win situation for them. Addressing it in any real way breaks the show, addressing it half heartedly won't come off as good.
And since I imagine we won't get a new season for a while simply due to Covid19 and depressingly I see a lot of the country moving away/forgetting about this, just as it has done so often.
For that matter, how the hell is any TV show going to handle the real world implications of Covid-19?
I'm currently in a writers room, and the general consensus is, "Nobody wants to be reminded of The Big Inescapable Thing in their escapism." Characters are gonna be broker than usual, struggling to find their feet again after losing work, but there ain't gonna be a quarantine bottle episode or anything interminable like that.
co-sign
I'm in a lot of circles with beginning and mid-level writers, and for every one person thinking about writing a quarantine piece there's a hundred people screaming not to do that
Make the entire next season of Better Call Saul black and white Saul stuck inside
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
frankly I'm ready for B99 to end
it had a good run, now it's time for like a half-season victory lap and a finale episode where like, I dunno, we see Jake in old man makeup, maybe a scene at Scully's funeral where it's revealed that he died like, flipping his harley or something instead of three simultaneous heart attacks
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the one show I might trust to handle police brutality or Covid and successfully ride the line between meaningful commentary and entertainment is Bojack Horseman, but that's all done.
Brooklyn 99 pretty frequently comes back to the idea that the 99 are basically the only good cops around, but the only meaningful change they ever try to make was Holt trying to be commissioner, and that couldn't succeed because it's a sitcom and things can't actually ever change. If they'd ended when it was originally cancelled they could've said that he got the job and changed things for the better, but Hulu picked it up so yeah.
There will almost definitely be a Sunny in Philadelphia episode where Frank is desperate for a haircut or manicure but the governent wont let him, although they may make it an analogy crisis than actually go with Covid.
Y’all think when It’s Always Sunny ends, they’ll one up Seinfeld and just have the entire gang get murdered by everyone they’ve wronged over the years?
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Y’all think when It’s Always Sunny ends, they’ll one up Seinfeld and just have the entire gang get murdered by everyone they’ve wronged over the years?
Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I don't know enough about the show to guess at what it might be, but I bet rob and glenn either know exactly how the show's going to end, or they have no idea and the thought keeps them up at night
Y’all think when It’s Always Sunny ends, they’ll one up Seinfeld and just have the entire gang get murdered by everyone they’ve wronged over the years?
Y’all think when It’s Always Sunny ends, they’ll one up Seinfeld and just have the entire gang get murdered by everyone they’ve wronged over the years?
I imagine it would be like, a full Orient Express affair
Or them constantly surviving increasingly improbably vengeance plots only to die in some sort of tragic but completely avoidable accident that they caused themselves
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Or NBC or whatever happened I forget - I just remember the last episode when it first got cancelled ending with Holt getting the message about whether or not he got the job and going "Well I'm sure you can all see by my face what happened."
There will almost definitely be a Sunny in Philadelphia episode where Frank is desperate for a haircut or manicure but the governent wont let him, although they may make it an analogy crisis than actually go with Covid.
They've confirmed that they'll do "something" with Covid.
It's Always Sunny already did a disease-quarantine episode though, so they'll have to approach COVID in another way.
oh they've remade episodes before
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they'll try and be disease profiteers by making hand sanitizer that you can drink and the still will explode or mack will got temporarily blind from drinking it
Considering Dennis' obsession with being pure and clean contrasted against Charlie and Frank living like rats, there is some pretty incredible grounds for comedy in the situation.
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For that matter, how the hell is any TV show going to handle the real world implications of Covid-19?
I'm currently in a writers room, and the general consensus is, "Nobody wants to be reminded of The Big Inescapable Thing in their escapism." Characters are gonna be broker than usual, struggling to find their feet again after losing work, but there ain't gonna be a quarantine bottle episode or anything interminable like that.
Frankly I expect lots of shows to basically continue to inhabit parallel universes where COVID-19 never happened at cops are still ostensibly "the good guys". My theater is/was gearing up to do a bunch of shows that are about as escapist as you can get. The closest they were going to get to approaching reality was going to be Evita and Les Mis, and even those two were met with a fraught argument over propriety in the current political climate.
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Theatre is where I expect to see a lot of incredibly lukewarm takes, personally
I mean also probably some good stuff, one of my favorite theatre companies has transitioned their show to online and has already been on that
But I'm fully expecting to see a shitty production of Julius Caesar where everyone wears face masks or whatever
For that matter, how the hell is any TV show going to handle the real world implications of Covid-19?
I'm currently in a writers room, and the general consensus is, "Nobody wants to be reminded of The Big Inescapable Thing in their escapism." Characters are gonna be broker than usual, struggling to find their feet again after losing work, but there ain't gonna be a quarantine bottle episode or anything interminable like that.
Frankly I expect lots of shows to basically continue to inhabit parallel universes where COVID-19 never happened at cops are still ostensibly "the good guys". My theater is/was gearing up to do a bunch of shows that are about as escapist as you can get. The closest they were going to get to approaching reality was going to be Evita and Les Mis, and even those two were met with a fraught argument over propriety in the current political climate.
I cannot get into specifics because I don't wanna be fired, but "What do we do about cops?" was actively discussed in both of the rooms I was in today
The conversations were more fruitful than I worried they might be, but we'll see how the Beverly Hills set feels about shit once they go back to being insulated
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I have zero time for anything portraying cops and quirky, hilarious regular folks like you and I at this point in my life
For that matter, how the hell is any TV show going to handle the real world implications of Covid-19?
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I trust the B99 team on this. I honestly think they've laid groundwork to cover police corruption in depth. literally every character on the show has been affected negatively by it either in their backstory or in the show proper.
It is that the police, as an entire organization and power structure, are fundamentally broken and corrupt and cannot continue as is
Which I do not expect the fun cop show to tackle
I'm currently in a writers room, and the general consensus is, "Nobody wants to be reminded of The Big Inescapable Thing in their escapism." Characters are gonna be broker than usual, struggling to find their feet again after losing work, but there ain't gonna be a quarantine bottle episode or anything interminable like that.
It's a no win situation for them. Addressing it in any real way breaks the show, addressing it half heartedly won't come off as good.
And since I imagine we won't get a new season for a while simply due to Covid19 and depressingly I see a lot of the country moving away/forgetting about this, just as it has done so often.
co-sign
I'm in a lot of circles with beginning and mid-level writers, and for every one person thinking about writing a quarantine piece there's a hundred people screaming not to do that
it had a good run, now it's time for like a half-season victory lap and a finale episode where like, I dunno, we see Jake in old man makeup, maybe a scene at Scully's funeral where it's revealed that he died like, flipping his harley or something instead of three simultaneous heart attacks
Prove me wrong!
While I don't want the cast and crew to go unemployed, I wouldn't be sad if they just didn't do another season
(especially since Stephanie Beatriz wants to play Batwoman)
It’ll 100% be Cricket.
A McPoyle will be involved.
Wait I thought she wanted to be She-Hulk.
Though I'd be down for either.
I imagine it would be like, a full Orient Express affair
Or them constantly surviving increasingly improbably vengeance plots only to die in some sort of tragic but completely avoidable accident that they caused themselves
I think she just wants to be a superhero and beat people up and LET HER
Or NBC or whatever happened I forget - I just remember the last episode when it first got cancelled ending with Holt getting the message about whether or not he got the job and going "Well I'm sure you can all see by my face what happened."
They've confirmed that they'll do "something" with Covid.
oh they've remade episodes before
Frankly I expect lots of shows to basically continue to inhabit parallel universes where COVID-19 never happened at cops are still ostensibly "the good guys". My theater is/was gearing up to do a bunch of shows that are about as escapist as you can get. The closest they were going to get to approaching reality was going to be Evita and Les Mis, and even those two were met with a fraught argument over propriety in the current political climate.
I mean also probably some good stuff, one of my favorite theatre companies has transitioned their show to online and has already been on that
But I'm fully expecting to see a shitty production of Julius Caesar where everyone wears face masks or whatever
I cannot get into specifics because I don't wanna be fired, but "What do we do about cops?" was actively discussed in both of the rooms I was in today
The conversations were more fruitful than I worried they might be, but we'll see how the Beverly Hills set feels about shit once they go back to being insulated