• diversity: female poc lead, multiple african american characters in both the team and her family, hispanic male as the general manager of a national league team, etc
• sports background but its not the main focus, the characters & their relationships with each other are
• deals with issues and things like rape culture (literally says the words “rape culture”!! on television!!), racism, sexism, feminism, etc
• shows examples of real healthy relationships like blip + evelyn, who are happily married and love each other and are still honest with each other
• complicated but realistic family dynamics
• has both a career driven woman and a stay at home mom and neither are made to feel ashamed for that, and they are both happy with their lifestyles
• realistically showed and dealt with a character having a panic attack and compassionately being given help with it
• also has its funny and clever moments
• and plot twists (that will prob make you cry) 
• positive female friendships!!!!
• positive male friendships!!!
• positive male/female friendships that don’t turn into anything romantic!!!
• if you’re into shipping though, there’s plenty to work with 
• A FREAKING FANTASTIC and amazing cast
• it’s just really well done 
• AND THE MUSIC
• seriously 
• go 
• watch 
• it
• Thursdays 9/8c on Fox. You can watch all the episodes on the Fox website or on Hulu. There’s only been 6 episodes so you have plenty of time to catch up before next week!!

endless list of favourite female characters:  Amy Santiago (Brookyn Nine-Nine) ↳ I’m gonna run you both off the road into a wall. I’m gonna kill you.

The Cubs have won the World Series - November 2, 2016