The Emmy winner brought his gravitas to the often silly comedy and was its emotional center.
“It’s been a tough year to be a Black man.
And a police captain.
Andre Braugher as Ray Holt on ‘Brooklyn 99’.Eddy Chen/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
It’s a rare, vulnerable admission from the comically stoic Capt.
His gravitas and those wide, searching eyes provided comfort in the comedy.
We recentlylost the great Norman Lear, who first introduced this kind of social commentary into primetime sitcoms.
Andre Braugher as Ray Holt, Marc Evan Jackson as Kevin Cozner on ‘Brooklyn 99’.Eddy Chen/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
Holt was a man without expression but never without feeling.
