The Brooklyn Nine-Nine team brought the sets of the bullpen at Brooklyn’s ninety-ninth precinct and Shaw’s bar back to life this week. Multiple members of Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s ensemble cast confirmed that production has officially gotten underway on the show’s final season through posts on social media.
“Vacations over,” Joe Lo Truglio (Reno 911!, Wet Hot American Summer) captioned an Instagram video that showed the hair and make-up process that transformed him into Charles Boyle on Monday. Norm Scully actor Joel McKinnon Miller (Big Love, The Truman Show) – one half of the precinct’s veteran buddy cop duo Hitchcock and Scully – posted similar video on his Twitter on Tuesday. Both posts gave special shout-outs to the hardworking members of Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s hair and make-up team.
“Love being back at work with the best crew,” McKinnon wrote on Instagram Tuesday, reposting selfie of himself with Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Director of Photography Rick Page (A Lyon in the Kitchen) on the set of Shaw’s Bar, a frequent hangout of the ninety-ninth precinct’s officers. Page has posted several behind-the-scenes photos on his Instagram as well, including hashtags about COVID-19 safety in all his posts, giving a glimpse into the health and safety protocols are being implemented on set.
Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Short Term 12) was another member of the cast who posted a selfie of themselves at Shaw’s on Instagram. The Rosa Diaz actress likewise posted selfies with cast members that were shared by Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s official Twitter and Instagram pages.
“Yesterday, I was so excited to be back at work I forgot to take a pic to commemorate the occasion,” Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell) posted a selfie of herself, Terry Crews (The Expendables, Idiocracy) and Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Streets, Men of a Certain Age) on Instagram, as not to miss out on the action “so here’s from Day 2.” The photo, taken in front of Captain Ray Holt’s desk, features a miniature bisexual pride flag in Holt’s pen-holder, a symbol of solidarity with Beatriz’s character Rosa Diaz, who came out as bisexual in the show’s fifth season.
The season that got underway this week will be Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s eighth and final season, decision made by showrunner Dan Goor (Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) in February. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the ten-episode final season of the sitcom will focus on COVID-19’s impacts on first responders as well as the issues surrounding institutional racism in policing that led to this past summer’s protests.