[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” Season 5, Episode 11, “The Box.”]
Jake Peralta, Andy Samberg’s renegade goofy police officer on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” is a character that has always been built on intuition and a sharp appreciation of action movies. The cop movies Peralta grew up idolizing often lead him astray, but there’s always something in his approach that pays off at the end. This week’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” may have referenced “Die Hard,” but this bottle episode benefited from having its own Hannibal Lecter. And it needed the perfect actor to play the man behind the perfect crime.
Enter Sterling K. Brown. In a role that cements him as one of the most versatile TV actors working, Brown anchored one of the best “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” half hours in recent memory, providing the ideal foil to a tandem interrogation from Peralta and Captain Holt (Andre Braugher). As accused murderous dentist Philip Davidson, Brown’s...
Jake Peralta, Andy Samberg’s renegade goofy police officer on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” is a character that has always been built on intuition and a sharp appreciation of action movies. The cop movies Peralta grew up idolizing often lead him astray, but there’s always something in his approach that pays off at the end. This week’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” may have referenced “Die Hard,” but this bottle episode benefited from having its own Hannibal Lecter. And it needed the perfect actor to play the man behind the perfect crime.
Enter Sterling K. Brown. In a role that cements him as one of the most versatile TV actors working, Brown anchored one of the best “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” half hours in recent memory, providing the ideal foil to a tandem interrogation from Peralta and Captain Holt (Andre Braugher). As accused murderous dentist Philip Davidson, Brown’s...
- 4/2/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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