The #MeToo aspect of “He Said, She Said” is also a very timely plot, but I realized in this particular case that the very idea of someone calling out sexual harassment ( at the very least) being considered just “timely” is such bullshit. To improperly quote the feature film Zoolander, “That Marie Kondo’s so hot right now.” The reason I went with the Zoolander reference specifically is to note how much of a “timely” plot like that can just as quickly turn into a dated reference. Last week’s episode-covered by my colleague and dear friend Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya-had an organization plot that brought up the very concept of Marie Kondo’s whole. Eight episodes in, and I admit I’m still not 100% clear on what it means to be NBC Brooklyn Nine-Nine versus FOX Brooklyn Nine-Nine, at least not as intimately as the actual series writers are. Maybe it was the fact that the crux of this episode felt very atypical of the series maybe it was the “fact” that this current NBC season hasn’t exactly been an all-time great (so far) maybe it was even just the fact that it was on a new network in the first place. But those places admittedly didn’t give Brooklyn Nine-Nine the benefit of the doubt, especially six seasons in. It ended up being a screenshot of the hospital-bound van driver who fell for the Disco Strangler’s (Richard Finkelstein) “groovy voodoo,” but when you read the words “a difficult ‘he said, she said’ case” in an episode synopsis and see that image, your mind goes places. To get a little inside baseball with you all, I was also worried when I saw the screener screenshot for this episode.
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