YMMV / Angie Tribeca

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Scholls has always been jealous of Angie, seeing as how she has most of the department drooling over her, with the exception of Geils.
  • Is Angie really obsessed with the Hunter, the serial killer who is taking out white rich men, in a romantic sense? Does she have a thing for men with murderous tendencies, as seen with Eddie Pepper? Or, is this her version of payback against Geils, since he hurt her by being with Scholls during and after her coma? Another possibility is that this behavior is just another side-effect carried over from the previous season, and she still hasn't fully recovered from either her coma-induced PTSD or her trip down the dark side with Eddie. Her reaction to the Hunter could be just that. Nope, turns out the Hunter was actually just an actor for Geils's final exam.
• Broken Base: The Darker and Edgier nature of season 2 alienated a lot of fans.
• Designated Hero: Angie, toward the end of the second season. While she was right to be pissed off at the corruption of the law system, she still participated in an assassination attempt of a politician and betrayed her friends to do so. She may have stopped it at the last minute, but it doesn't change the fact that she threw in with Mayhem Global in the first place. Also, she checked out a weapon that Eddie used in a murder that she was arrested for and knew about it, so she is at least an accessory to murder, if not an accomplice. That she knowingly took the fall should get her on changes of obstruction of justice, not to mention conspiracy charges (considering she did it to team up with Diane Duran to kill Mayor Perry). Lucky for her that the show is what it is: a parody.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Geils calls out Tribeca on leaving people before they leave her. Cut to S2, where she wakes up from a coma to find out that Geils is now dating Scholls. Even worse, she learns that her ex-fiance left her to pursue a conspiracy against the mayor.
  • Tribeca admitted to being married to her job and wanting to have kids with it in season one. Cue the second season, where she is in the midst of a Heroic BSoD, ends up being disillusioned by the system she works for and risks her career to help in a conspiracy against the mayor.
  • Geils defends his relationship with Scholls by saying that the doctors told him Angie wouldn't be herself anymore even if she did wake up from her coma. Near the end of the season, Angie has changed so much that she no longer cares for the job she used to love, and Geils gets dumped by Scholls.
  • The main arc in season two was about Eddie Pepper going to great lengths to bring down Mayor Perry, who he claimed was beyond corrupt, only to be defeated in the end. The entire storyline becomes darker in light of the election in November...
  • Angie and Geils ended season two finally getting together and wanting to raise their kid. Cut to season three, where little Angelo has been sent away, and Angie is drifting away from Geils and towards a serial killer, of all people.
  • Angie fakes her death during a test for Geils, and Geils admits that he loves her more than anyone else in his life and now he is all alone. This gets worse when Mayor Perry arrests her...for the murder of the REAL Angie Tribeca. If true, poor Geils....
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The pilot had an art teacher blackmail the mayor over his tattoos. If he had only known what season two was going to be about...
  • Angie is now struggling in her relationship with Geils, fearing it doomed and obsessing over her job and cases (and a serial killer) instead. Rashida Jones guest-starred in an episode ofblackish where she played the divorced sister of Rainbow who cares more for her career than her her marriage.
  • Angie's whole relationship with Eddie Pepper takes on a whole meaning now that new information has learned about her father: Like Eddie, he has also faked his death.
• Moral Event Horizon: Eddie Pepper does throughout season 2. He faked his death, traumatizing Angie in the process, so that he could take down Mayor Joe Pepper. He does this by leading Mayhem Global, an organization that has been involved in illegal hacks and murder. In the end, his ultimate plan was to kill the Mayor.
  • Calvin Sniglet unleashes a virus upon the citizens of LA in order to save the animals and rid the world of the humans. When Scholls creates a cure and stops him, he retaliates by kidnapping her. Averted in that it was actually part of Geils's final exam and Sniglet was really an actor.
• Spiritual Successor: To the works of Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers, particularly Police Squad! and The Naked Gun, featuring the exact same style of humor.