Brooklyn Nine-Nine Scraps What It Had Taped For Season 8 And Will Start Over
Terry Crews has revealed that Brooklyn Nine-Nine's creators have decided to scrap the four episodes it had in the can for season eight and start over.
The world is a crazy and frankly pretty scary place right now. Between the global pandemic and the black lives matter protests, chances are 2020 will go down as one of the most significant years in modern human history. Our hope is that we can look back on it in years to come and believe that real change was made, rather than this year just slipping quietly into the history books along with the others.
When it comes to the sensitive subject that is the BLM movement, all walks of life are quite rightly being affected in major ways. Episodes of TV shows that feature racially insensitive scenes and jokes are being removed from rotation, including many examples of white actors appearing in blackface.
Since the movement was sparked by a backlash against the way some police officers abuse their power, that has thrown the future of sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine into question. As popular as the show has been for the past seven seasons, there's no way of knowing how people will react to it when it returns for an eighth. It seems as if Dan Goor, Nine-Nine's creator, is very switched on to that possible eventuality.
Terry Crews, who plays Lieutenant Terry Jeffords on the show, revealed some telling news about season eight during an interview with Access Daily. Crews explained that the four episodes Goor already had in the can for the upcoming season have been scrapped in light of what's going on with the BLM movement. "We've had a lot of somber talks about it and deep conversations and we hope through this we're going to make something that will be truly groundbreaking this year," Crews explained.
Crews didn't divulge what type of content the four binned episodes included, or what Goor and the cast have planned to replace them to be in keeping with what is happening in the rest of the world. However, it is an issue Nine-Nine touched upon long before the movement picked up steam. Crews' character was once arrested by a white officer for no other reason than he was suspicious of him due to the fact he was a black man in a predominantly white neighborhood at night, a neighborhood in which the character lived.
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