Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Balancing Comedy With Drama

‘Comedy-Drama’ is increasingly being recognised as a genre of it’s own, including a number of the opportunities we share creating specific categories for submissions. But this Nerdstalgic video argues that comedy and drama are already interlinked in the example of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a fast paced and joke packed police sitcom.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine uses drama by establishing high stakes, laying out the character’s motivations and through the consummate performances from its cast. This anchors the comedy in reality. It forms a base from which some of the more absurd jokes are given meaning.

Nerdstalgic demonstrates this through the analysis of an episode in which all these elements combine perfectly.