RIFLE RANGE BOY

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (season 8, final season) After a long hiatus, Brooklyn Nine-Nine returned with its last season. A lot of things happened after the previous season. George Floyd's mishandling, Black Live Matters movement and calls to defund the police did not put the police in the best of light. Despite the public sensitivities and the problems of filming under pandemic situations, the team managed to churn out an entire ten-episode season. The producers decided to keep it neutral by avoiding too much police work and limiting the storyline more to the precinct's pranks. Fonzie on water skis, in a scene from the 1977 Happy Days episode "Hollywood, Part 3", after jumping over a shark Maybe it is just me; I feel that actors have all grown lethargic playing their roles. The initial glow and enthusiasm seem to have been lost. Perhaps the producers saw that too. Rather than creating a 'jumping the shark' moment or even 'nuke the fridge' scene, they wisely ...

Brooklyn (2015) At a time of the US elections and a possible candidate whose selling point seem to be to limit immigration to his country, this movie appears to be all so relevant. It is a sober reminder that movement of people is inevitable. From a time in antiquity, people have been displaced around either for political or economic reasons. We are all immigrants, not by choice but by birth. It is history that we cannot change. No one can proclaim superiority over the other. After all with the affluence of society, the menial tasks of the society would be shunned by its members. As long as the capitalistic model of keeping the rich wealthy and suppressing the wages of the working class remains status quo, till then, migration will stay. We are still a long way from automation, or perhaps the master class is quite content with this arrangement. This 2015 period drama set in the early 1950s America and Ireland, depicts aptly the uncertainties and the emotions that the immigrant...