Fillion, charming as always, starring in a show which has to remind people that work is the most important thing in America. Drop your relationships, go back to work basically five minutes after you gave birth, military like work structure, yes sir, no sir… and of course have a lot of stuff, latest iPhones, new cars, nice apartments, always want more. it’s really strange seeing it from outside the U.S.
This is pause-your-brain television at its best. With our favourite 65 year old pretending to be mid-40. Can’t stop watching.
I think these cops are under fire more than the guys in Full Metal Jacket. It's pure silliness.
First 2 seasons entertaining 3rd season really really woke and not entertaining
In short: they decided to get as woke as possible in season three, killed what was a cute show.
Like many others I started watching this for Nathan Fillion, he always plays likable characters and the first couple seasons of this were just that.
Now, though, they have (and nobody should be surprised) made this into a platform for political correctness and virtue signaling.
The first two seasons were actually pretty fun to watch, come season 3 and every episode has huge political statements to make, even making a professor who believes cops are bad and corrupt and racist a main cast member. Black inequality righted? Check. Gay inequality righted? Check. Cops are bad and racist? Check. Cops should be defunded? Check. Who needs a good story when we can just do that instead?
Season 3 has been all about being PC about everything, being a social justice warrior about everything and, overall isn't the interesting story line we got in the first two seasons about a middle aged man who becomes a cop and the challenges he has to overcome.
So what happens in season 4 when "The Rookie" is no longer a rookie? Will there be a new batch of Rookies that our main character gets to impart his wisdom upon? Probably, and we'll get more political correctness and virtue signaling shoved down our throats since it will be made in 2021.
terrific show up until the third season. Absolutely awful. I will never watch anything with these actors again and Nathan Filion was always one of my favorites.
Season 1 was good then it went 100% woke so I scrapped it
So, as everyone else has said, the first 2 seasons were pretty solid. 3rd season is where they got woke and it got woke hard.
Since then each season has been dropping in quality. For starters, the documentary style episodes are some of the worst and always get terrible ratings and, despite that fact, they keep making documentary style episodes that continue to be terrible.
And now for seasons 4 and 5, some of the worst episodes are the crossover episodes with the Rookie Feds. As with the documentary episodes, they get very poor ratings and despite that they keep making more crossovers, with season 5 having 4 or 5 crossover episodes.
It is painfully obvious they have a checklist of woke topics they must center each episode about and tell us how we're all basically terrible people. There is no overarching stories anymore, technically there is, but they aren't good enough to acknowledge.
My advice? Watch the first 2 seasons. After that, if you enjoy watching shows that quickly delete itself and decline...then I hope you enjoy.
Ever watched Castle or anything Nathan Fillion or you like Cop shows but you’re tired of them portraying them all like 70’s (up to 90’s) cops and you’re the smart enough to know that all humans are equal and deserve their rights- but still want a cop show that has action?!? This is the show for you!!
50% cop drama 50% comedy and 100% Nathan Fillion!!
OK, fine that the quotas are fulfilled: black female, Hispanic female, Asian female, black male (who is chief, of course), white male. Nothing wrong with that, per se, but we should have known where it was going.
And, predictably, they pushed it over the edge, with yet another black male, who is Mormon, and turns out to also be homosexual, and starts passionately kissing another white male. Set off. We're done with it.
This is one of my favorite police shows out there. Nathan and Richard are HOT! I would LOVE to meet a dude like John Nolan for real
The Rookie is a really good police series! Towards the season 3, the series try to integrate in the story the real life events of BLM and the death of George Floyd but without acknowledging them specifically in canon - but still making them feel relevant and I think that it does a good job of commenting about crime brutality and police defunding whislt being fair with both sides and without compromising the plot.
Overall, it does a fine job with the plot and the characters. I WAS expecting to be a little bit more of a comedy since it has Nathan Fillion as a lead, but it is really not. But it does a fine job of being an entretaining series.
EDIT: Oh no - they kill the gay in season 4 . x_________x
Pretty decent series, Nathan is great
A Cop Drama With Nathan Fillion, I started it watching it because of him and honestly its a pretty enjoyable show with an array of characters. Not your usual cop drama, there is the right amount of humor and I'm liking it and I want to see where this goes. Lethal Weapon is based on the comedy and has some dramatic elements. Chicago P.D. is a serious drama and you get invested in every moment, this one comes right inbetween.
I just love how Nathan Fillion plays his character, just brings me back to the Firefly days.
Finally pulling the plug on this show. Just when I think their wokeness can't get any worse the next episode is even more woke and silly than the last. If you feel that having Hollywood force feed you their agenda is fun, this is a great show for you.
Started watching for Nathan and was not disappointed. Perfect amount of humour, action and familiar character developed to make it addictive without being tiring. It's rare that i get to season 2 of a show and would prefer not to have a break until the third season. Also like the addition of body cam footage, makes me feel more part of the action. How realistic is it? Frankly don't care, I can watch a number of show, heavy dramas for that which I equally love but that's not what i came here for. As advertised.
They are clearly trying to be Southland, but it ends up being cheesy. The magic of Southland was how gritty and realistic it was, you can't really get that on network television.
1st & 2nd seasons were wonderful! 3rd season went completely woke, but luckily the 4th season has pulled back from the woke based storylines and are now similar to seasons 1 & 2 and much much better for it!
Really liking this - even the most current topics seem to be handled in a considered way.
It's a mainstream cop friendly show. ("Join the LAPD today!")
Lots of action. Flat story.
Boring Characters. Diverse cast
There are a lot better cop shows out there: True Detective, the wire
Don't waste your time with this.
Loved this show, very similar vibe to 9-1-1. I personally don't like 'woke' shows but feel like this show handled serious issues well without bringing in real world examples. Love the character development throughout.
Fabulous series. I just can't get enough.
I thought so low about this. That bc of the main actor it would be a comedy or just another cop show which I was done bc of the schematic eps and so little insights with the main cast. Well I was soo wrong! It's so entertaining and maybe sometimes naive but mainly it just show you that you don't have to be tough and a handsome hunk to be great at the cop thing. John doesn't look like a cop, doesn't act like a cop really. He's naive, he's a teddy bear almost but he's gonna move mountains to change a 'crook' when he sees the person has potential.
I don't understand how the hell so many women are so into him which is hilarious. As well with the fact he's a rookie.
The comedy is there but the cases feel fresh and many times I didn't know how they will turn out and I have seen many cop shows. The romantic relationships feel fake to me and I couldn't feel anything for pretty much all of the relationships, not only with Nolan (maybe when he was with Jess but the relationship was mainly off screen and in the end felt rushed butthe chemistry was there at the beginning, love the actress, sad they didn't show her more). The relationships between the officers on the other hand. By the finale of the 2nd season I saw many scenes so believable I was rooting for the characters I didn't even like just bc they all really started to feel like a family. Boots and TOs. It's really outstanding for me. I feel hangover now (watch the entire show in 2 days) and I want to watch more cp shows but I know there aren't any like that.
Just imagine having Stana Katic as Dr. Grace.
First of all, this is not a crime show. This is a slice of life drama that just happens to star a group of cops. The crimes don't matter. All that matters is the relationship between the team members and how they feel. That could be great if it's done well, but it's underwhelming here.
It appears they're trying to present an idealised idea of being a cop. Like the job is something out of an action movie where the cops are the heroes and their office is a kind of bootcamp, where superiors demean and bully their underlings (even in front of criminals).
At one point in the first episode, one supervisor (as a kind of twisted hazing ritual) deliberately sets his rookie up to be attacked by a drug dealer (lucky he didn't have a knife or something), and then stands and watches, smugly, while his rookie is receiving punches. Yet, by the end of the same episode I'm supposed to feel sympathetic for that supervisor? No, thank you.
Looking for a fun cop show? Check out the first season or two of The Rookie. This is a mildly humorous, socially-aware cop show for chilling on sofa after a long day.
I think JR's review is the best short summary: https://trakt.tv/comments/653046
The first few seasons are solid entertainment, a cop drama with frequent comedic moments. The core premise is excellent, and Fillion is a perfect fit as the rookie whose earnest befuddlement (experience as a carpenter and dad) provides plenty of opportunities for humor. He's surrounded by a good supporting cast that has plenty of character development of their own.
Prepare to suspend some disbelief and critical thought, however. Why are rookie police officers joining SWAT assaults, having public shoot-outs with criminals, conducting car chases, infiltrating criminal groups, getting kidnapped, etc.? What exactly is everyone's work schedule? And there are a lot of side characters who just happen to be rich---in order to enable a whole bunch of additional scenarios that would logically be well out of any normal police officer's reach.
It soon suffers from the usual (unavoidable?) issues of any longer-running TV show, but hopefully by the point it happens, you'll be invested enough in the ongoing storylines to not be overly bothered by the artistic license:
- A wildly unrealistic number of crazy situations for the same set of characters.
- Characters with interesting back stories and struggles eventually resolve them, and then are bit less interesting--which is still better than never-resolved issues that drag on for years.
- Characters leave the show as actors move on and some new additions don't work as well.
- In spite of their flaws, most folks are kind and competent and solve problems.
It definitely goes downhill in later seasons, as boring/annoying characters are introduced as regulars and the plots get more far-fetched.
A major problem with almost all cop shows is that they consistently show a false, PR-friendly version of the police. The Rookie is largely caught in the same trap, with a few baby steps in the right direction. So I appreciated it when the series pivoted hard, post-George Floyd, tackling a flurry of topics relating to police corruption and social justice. However, it felt really obvious, a bit forced and heavy-handed, with the show dragging a bit as it added lots of elements it had previously ignored. Those storylines are brief, but fortunately The Rookie doesn't toss all these topics to the side once finished and the series quickly re-stabilizes once the writers are longer shoehorning topics du jour into the shooting schedule.
t is going quite downhill with season 5 
This show makes me gag some times I would say it's down to the poor quality acting but I think it's also a case og shite directing. Is it meant be set in a parallel universe because the police are all awfully polite? But I'm a sad and shallow ol fart and will keep watching just to see Melissa O'Neil yes I said it, go on shoot me already.
oh great now we're doing the isn't being a landlord great passive income rather than being a massive fucking parasite
Over the top action with better acting than most similar shows. I wouldn't bother watching it at home, but I do it at work. Gets political from season 3 on. It's not constant, but it's enough to be obnoxious. Go watch the wire or southland is you're looking for a good cop show.
Now that its confirmed to have a 4th season, and obviously Nolan passes probation, how does this show still get called The Rookie?
its about a police drama, but somewhat light compared with CSI, Law and Order etc, that shows the lives of police offices in Los Angeles. It isn't a pure comedy, there have heavy subjects approached in the show like the dangers of indeciveness when approaching certain situations, how much of police work is usually dangerous and really daming for the individual on a emotional and physical level etc etc.
Its MC is played by Nathan Fillion, but instead of a lovable comedian, it plays a little, just a little more serious compared with other character Fillion has played. It is a crime drama, but some moments are worth a shuckle or two.
Where to begin? Well, first off, I think this show is entertaining and I don't think that will ever change, no matter how much others dislike it or aspects about it and gradually disliking it more and more. There are technical discrepancies when it comes to certain things when compared with real life, I'm sure. But I think some people are overly harsh when it comes to them. There are also other aspects not solely related to how the technicalities are done that I've seen people dwell on, and honestly, I don't even notice them. There comes a point where constantly dwelling on things like that is just out of an egotistical mindset that those things are this unbearable issue, and they're not. I'd go as far as to say that some may start doing it out of spite. At this point, some people must be looking for anything, any little, inconsequential detail to complain about. The show is meant to entertain, and for me, it does just that. If that's not the case for you, I imagine it's because you're choosing to dwell on meaningless details to where that's all you care about and can focus on, and you can't let yourself be entertained as a subsequent offshoot of that. You'd be best off if you quit watching the show if you're one of those people, and there's no need to continue watching the show. For me, this show isn't this wonderful, like-none-other show or anything like that. The fact is, it can be uninteresting for me at times, or some parts of an episode. Regardless of that, I enjoy watching it. The concept is entertaining, and by that, I mean that it's a police procedural. Not all of them are entertaining, but this one is. Take that however you'd like.
Just binges the first season, had no idea that I would get hooked. Nice to see a brown coat after all these years. All the show needs is a guest star walk-on by Gina Torres.
Rather poor script. Unrealistic events and people reacting inhuman.
This was my favourite new show last year and this second season premiere didn't disappoint. Great cast (lots of Canadian talent: Nathan Fillion:flag_ca:, Melissa O'Neill:flag_ca:, Shawn Ashmore:flag_ca:. I hope Sarah Shahi moves from guest star to series regular). Great writing. Great character arcs. Definitely maintaining my 9 (superb) out of 10 rating. [Police Drama]
I love this show. Started watching cos of Nathan, and I enjoy every minute of it. I've reade a comment wich says it is "cheesy"... I don't share this opinion. Enjoyable, funny, with a bit of drama. I can't wait season two! :)
While it was not as gruesome as some cop shows it was also not so predictable as some cop shows.
wow 3 people watched it already, how did they do that :-P
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First 2 seasons are definitely recommended. It got "woke" in season 3 and isn't worth the time anymore. Unfollowed.