20 TV Shows That Failed To Stick The Landing

During production of its eighth and final season, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was derailed by the COVID pandemic, a calamity that producers used to try to say something important about the world.

This was not a terrible idea, since the themes of the comedy's final season are pretty damn vital - injustice, police brutality, racism, corruption - it's just that the series never felt like the right place for them, and its silly tone kept the importance of what it wanted to say at arm's length. 

After all, Brooklyn Nine-Nine had spent the preceding seven years a silly sitcom that had always glossed over such issues within the American police force, even actively making jokes at the expense of saying meaningful about them.

It was an admittedly bold attempt to say something more important in the midst of its typically fun misadventures, but the tone was jumbled and the sentiment felt too little, too late. It should have tackled its loftier ideas earlier, or left them be entirely.