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Crime, Drama, Comedy 9 seasons 145 episodes Returning TV-14
IMDb8.0
Never off duty.
Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he's met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.
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Effortless, unpretentious, spare and contemporary.
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First 4 seasons the writing mostly was super strong in a few categories. Mostly believability across general behaviors and dialogues. It was nice to see as much common sense as displayed. But in middle of season 4 stupid writing kicked in with great variance in quality across all the same categories. The new rookie there was ultra annoying, no matter how much they tried to smoothen the awkward psychic topic. But filming a bank heist episode, with 3 people safe in an office, needing 2 minutes to finally trigger an alarm, what the hell? In another episode around that time, guns sounded like firecrackers. All of a sudden everything seemed to decline as if there wasn't budget to get even average TV quality anymore. To me it looks like a cheap ride on the reputation the show had gained through their first seasons and it's super tempting to just leave it there. (Which reminds me of Navy CIS - post-Gibbs.) Not all episodes followed that trend, but some you could easily skip, which wasn't a thing during those first storylines. We all have seen shows where we realized, the stories they *wanted* to twll were clearly over, and at some point, they *needed* to come up with new ideas, which mean
Read the whole review on TMDBIt started off REALLY good, and I was getting into it. It's one of those shows my wife watches that I would reply with "I liked it more when they called it Hillstreet Blues," and then I would joke that "what are they going to call it in season two or three, they didn't think through the title, did they?" But it started growing on me from the start, and it was only teasing. I was actually getting into it. And then 2020 happened and it took a HARD left wing turn It fell apart. It took a bit of an ACAB stance, which is awkward in a police drama. It started to do the who leftist lecture thing. The "inappropriate" relationships according to the left broke up. It became crap. So much so that I started calling it "The Wokie." But then it slowly started to veer back to an actual cop show again. The characters that I was getting into when it started started to return to the same characters and not just the same woke stereo-types. Personalities came back to them, actual individual personalities, which seems to be one of the biggest problems with leftist media, they can't give people personalities, they just give them gender and races and sexualities and mistake that for actual character. In
Read the whole review on TMDB**Score: 7/10 — A Fun, Flawed, and Unapologetically Idealistic Procedural** *The Rookie* succeeds because of [not in spite of] its well crafted contradictions... It is a show that is at once deeply entertaining and profoundly naive, a character-driven workplace drama wrapped in the glossy, sun-drenched packaging of a police recruitment ad. For what it sets out to do—provide optimistic, weekly escapism with a beloved cast—it earns its keep, even as its disconnect from reality grows more pronounced with each passing season. **What Works (Why We Keep Watching):** The show’s undeniable engine is its **character development and chemistry.** Nathan Fillion’s John Nolan, the titular “oldest rookie,” provides a charming, moral anchor, and the ensemble around him (Melissa O’Neil’s Lucy Chen, Eric Winter’s Tim Bradford, etc.) has evolved into a genuinely beloved television family. Their personal and professional arcs—the romances, the friendships, the triumphs—are scripted with a sincerity that makes you invest deeply. As you noted, you **keep interested in the characters**, and that investment has carried the show through its more outlandish plots for **eight fun-to-watch seasons.** **The C
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