Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Hitchcock and Scully: An appreciation

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Sure, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller's characters are "paragons of mediocrity who failed upward and are living in a changed world they can’t fully understand," says Marissa Martinelli. "But they work so well on the show because they occupy a middle ground between the two, neither villains nor saints, just buffoons. It helps that there are two of them, too: Their colleagues might be cruel and their home lives might be a mess, but Hitchcock and Scully always have each other—and, as it turns out, they’re happy to be underestimated together." ALSO: Stephanie Beatriz finds it hilarious that the bisexual woman on Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the "straight man."