Tag Archives: Stephanie Beatriz

Rant: Monthly Dee-Lights (11/21)

Just a quick note of some of the funnest content I consumed last month (in no particular order): – In honour of Transgender Awareness Week, I watched a year-old ET interview with Josie Totah, in which she talks about her … Continue reading

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Rant: Monthly Dee-Lights (9/20)

Just a quick note of some of the funnest content I consumed last month (in no particular order): – After consistently stealing the spotlight from Seth Meyers on his Late Night show, Amber Ruffin has earned her very own topical … Continue reading

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Die Harderer

Jinkies! Last Thursday (10/5) Fox cruelly cancelled Brooklyn Nine-Nine, after five consistently funny seasons… then the very next day, NBC picked up the tab, and ordered thirteen shiny new episodes! Hurrah! In the show’s remarkably brief “limbo” period of non-existence, … Continue reading

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¿Minino Más Rápido?

I try not to get too excited about movies/shows that haven’t been released (or even finished) yet, but my pulse-rate did rise a little when I read a recent GQ interview with Stephanie Beatriz and she mentioned being cast in … Continue reading

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“Detectives Who Happen To Be Latina”

To ramp up excitement for the second season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which premieres on September 28th (squee!), Hispanic Living ran a fantastic profile piece on Melissa Fumero and Stephanie Beatriz, which includes the revelation that their characters’ ethnicities weren’t specified … Continue reading

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Spex Appeal

T’other day I happened upon an old USA Today video interview with Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch, in which they revealed that in real life they both wear thick glasses, much like their Big Bang Theory characters. I know that … Continue reading

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“Eyes Closed. Head First. Can’t Lose.”

This week saw the season finale of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a very funny workplace sitcom that also functioned as an engaging police procedural, and boasted an admirably diverse cast, thanks to a conscious effort by the writers to reflect the New York borough in which their … Continue reading

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