What I really think of Brooklyn Nine Nine.

#brooklyn99

Starring Andy Samberg of the Lonely Island (yeaaah, the dudes behind those songs - "I Just Had Sex", notably) who's also the producer, Terry Crews (who doesn't know this guy?) and Andre Braugher of the lovely velvet voice.

I started watching this a few days ago after months of trying to get myself to make the effort to watch it. I knew it would be good, I'm just seriously unmotivated when it comes to shows. I find that TV series are like long term commitments and I'm just not very good at that just yet.

Brooklyn Nine Nine is a workplace comedy that revolves around a team of detectives (and one civilian administrator). Excellent representation, with three female characters to four male characters. Two white males, two latina females and two black males. Both black males are the superior officers. Yeah, the white dude's the main character but I can live with that considering he's totally flawed and not perfect and he gets waaay annoying.

Cons.

1. The fat jokes in Episode 4. That got really annoying. I expected better.
2. (POSSIBLY KIND OF SPOILER-Y DO NOT CONTINUE IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED AT LEAST HALF OF SEASON ONE) I have a feeling that Rosa may be set up for a romantic pairing with Charles and that's so messed up on so many levels because firstly, she's expressed countless times throughout the series that she's not interested in him romantically though she does like him as a person. Secondly, he kept getting creepy about it. Sure, he did apologise later on, but still. Thirdly, the whole "I liked her and pursued her forever and then she liked me back (hiatus optional)" trope is so problematic. If a woman tells you to cut it out, do everyone a favour and cut it way out. It's not romantic to be that uncomfortably creepy plus it's kinda not basic human decency. That thing is overused too.

Pros.

1. No mention of the friendzone. Charles being creepy aside, they're respectful of each other and they appreciate being friends.
2. The jokes are genuinely funny without actually being problematic, mostly.
3. Captain Holt and feminism. No, seriously. Issues such as racism, sexism and homophobia are brought up and dealt with in a really fab way. I love it.
4. Sex positive and no slut shame-y jokes. Yaaayers.
5. The characters are so well-written. Amy should be annoying but she's so endearing. Gina should overbearing but she comes off as sincere and snarky in a really good way. Rosa is... amazing. Each of the characters is reason enough to watch the show.
6. Wesley thinks it's a high point that there are no laugh tracks in the background.

In conclusion, this is a pretty good show to watch to unwind. This is a show I can watch without being on edge over the jokes. I'm shamelessly adding gifs of Rosa because I aspire to be her.

Guilty as charged.

I have two primary reasons to write this post.

The first is that I SUCK at remembering to wash my face with actual facial cleansers. Guess we can lump that one as a fail!

The second is that I just watched 22 episodes of Brooklyn Nine Nine in less than 24 hours. Yeah, that's the first season. Yes, this is totally blog-worthy news. I don't watch TV series. I have never been able to watch anything without forcing myself to do it.

Brooklyn Nine Nine is pretty awesome. I like it. It's the simple concept of a workplace-related comedy that just so happens to be set with cops. The jokes are pretty spot on (except with some fat-shaming jokes) and the representation isn't too bad either. There are a lot of hard-hitting truths about being gay and black, for example. I relish those moments.

Also, I kinda wanna be Detective Rosa Diaz when I grow up.

SO QUOTEWORTHY

"I'm gonna punch him so hard in the mouth he bites his own heart."
("I'm sorry, what do you look for in a guy?") "I don't know. Real stuff.... shape of his ass."
"You think I'm opinionated? Okay, here's an opinion for you. You're a bad judge of character and your shirt looks like vomit."
("Rosa's even wearing her formal leather jacket!") "Yeah, it's the one without any blood on it."

I am a butt.

I am an increasingly sloppy butt at having any kind of skincare routine put into place and it's absolutely disgusting me. Bleargh.

At the moment, I wash my face with the same soap I use for my body and I literally don't shampoo my hair (it feels amazing and looks amazing and photographs so well but ughhh, I totally get that it's not something I should say out loud).

Thing is, I'll be turning 22 soon. I'm approaching my mid-twenties (yeah, okay, it's a few years away, but still!) and what if I end up regretting my complete buttness at looking after my skin?!

(I've been told I have an unfairly gorgeous complexion considering aforementioned buttness - yeah, even during my period - and so this should be maintained, yes?)

Someone got me a couple of Soap & Glory products just yesterday:

• the Fab Pore (a moisturiser of some sort)
• Scrubatomic (a daily face polish - though I wonder why you would name something face polish??? SOMETHING YOU PUT ON YOUR FACE???)
• Scrub Your Nose In It (an exfoliator)

 It's not the first time I've tried doing something to my skin. I'm guilty of having countless facial cleansers lying around much that I bought and then promptly lost interest in to the glee of my mother and sisters. I'm really hoping I stick to this, though.

I'm not a big fan of putting much on my face. I have more than decent skin and I'm a little bit afraid that I'd cause breakouts by overusing products when I believe in minimalism and especially when so little works.

Even worse, I'm just plain clueless about things like this. I just Googled "what is a toner". I mean, I know what it is, I just want to know what it does and whether it's even worth purchasing at all (oh god, I know, I'm terrible).

The good thing is that I don't use much makeup, if any at all (if I do use any it's limited to eyeliner and mascara and something lippy - I don't think I could ever find it in me to bother about using eyeshadow, ever). That reduces my need for skincare very much, I think.

Anyway, we'll see how this goes.