This Brooklyn 9-9 Character Doesn’t Deserve So Much Hate, and Here’s Why

Police procedurals are controversial nowadays, but Brooklyn Nine-Nine has always managed to tackle serious topics with a little bit of humor, and that’s why many viewers love it and many of its beautifully written characters.

However, there is one character who has fans divided, and that’s of course Gina Linetti. Some fans love her to death, others hate her so much they skip entire scenes where she is present. Why does Chelsea Peretti’s character ruffle so many feathers?

Well, some Reddit fans started a discussion about that. While Gina’s one-liners are the most iconic and quotable, the character itself is pretty negative. Gina doesn’t seem to care about people, is constantly on her phone, and actively bullies Amy.

Gina is such an annoying person that people wonder how come Jake is friends with her. However, that’s only if you take Gina seriously and treat her as a human being, not a television character, which is probably not the right move.

Like many sitcoms, Brooklyn Nine-Nine takes certain character tropes and exaggerates them to the maximum, giving each character a very distinctive personality, which works well on TV, but would make you hate the person in real life.

Gina is actually not the exception, she is the rule. The reason she is hated more than other characters is that her negative traits are move obvious, and she doesn’t seem to want any kind of redemption.

When you think about it, all Brooklyn Nine-Nine characters would be rather horrible people that you wouldn’t want to hang out in reality. Rosa is aggressive and hostile, Amy is a stick-in-the-mud, Charles borders on sexual harassment most of the time, Jake doesn’t take anything seriously and neglects his job, and Holt is kind of condescending.

All of these traits are compensated for in the series by the characters being fun people doing fun things that viewers like to watch. If they were real, we would definitely try to avoid them at all costs.

Thankfully, neither of them is an actual person, and we can still enjoy their shenanigans without holding the characters to real-life standards.

Source: Reddit