- Description
- Elena Rivera is a pop culture journalist based out of North Carolina. She primarily writes about the intersection of race, culture and television, especially the representation of women of color on television. She loves Natalie Dormer, Jane The Virgin, and talking about Canadian teen soaps from the early 2000's. Follow her on Twitter @ElenaIsAwesome.
![Brooklyn Nine-Nine is, at its core, a goofy workplace sitcom. It’s full of big personalities and office hijinks, and the characters only tangentially seem to be solving crimes. “Hostage Situation,” […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20160119020934im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/B99-Hostage-Situation-210x115.jpg "Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Hostage Situation")
![“The Swedes” and “Yippie Kayak,” two inventive episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, close out the first half of the season, a season that has seen more change thus far than most […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20160119020934im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/b99-yippie-kayak-210x115.jpg "Brooklyn Nine-Nine: ‘The Swedes’ & ‘Yippie Kayak’")
![Jake Peralta as a protagonist occupies one of those special television spaces: he’s capable and confident in his detective work, and yet he’s also simultaneously immature enough to have a […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20160119020934im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/b99-the-mattress-210x115.jpg "Brooklyn Nine-Nine: ‘The Mattress’ and ‘Ava’")
![Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s solid third season slowed down a bit with “Into the Woods,” an enjoyable and serviceable episode of the show that serves to strengthen existing relationships between the squad. […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20160119020934im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/brooklyn99-306-210x115.jpg "Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Into the Woods")
![“Halloween III” is Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s third in a series of Halloween episodes that pit Captain Holt and Jake against each other to see who truly is the best detective slash […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20160119020934im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/brooklyn99-305-210x115.jpg "Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Halloween III")
![“Boyle’s Hunch” and “The Oolong Slayer,” both balanced, dynamic episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, are a reminder of the way the show has created the world of the NYPD. Brooklyn Nine-Nine […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20160119020934im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/B99-Oolong-Slayer-210x115.jpg "Brooklyn Nine-Nine: ‘Boyle’s Hunch’ and ‘The Oolong Slayer’")
![“The Funeral” picks up right after last week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine premiere, framing the episode around Captain Dozerman’s funeral, his untimely death slightly perpetrated by Amy and Jake’s secret rendezvous in […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20160119020934im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/BRK-0302-210x115.jpg "Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The Funeral")
![Brooklyn Nine-Nine ended its second season with a whole host of changes: Jake Peralta and Amy Santiago finally, blissfully kissed; Captain Holt took a job in the NYPD’s Public Relations […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20160119020934im_/http://thetelevixen.com/wp-content/uploads/B99-new-captain-210x115.jpg "Brooklyn Nine-Nine: New Captain")