The Rookie (TV Series) Crushed (2024) User Reviews

Gimmicky camera work returns.....total distraction

[grlym-46849 · 7/10 · 4 May 2024]

I can deal with the lame breakup reason last episode. Even the extended plot drama dragging into this episode, but......

Why does this show get so infatuated with terrible gimmicks. Usually with camera work via a million cop cheat cameras, Brady bunch split screens...etc. Everytime this happens IMDB lights up with similiar complaints. So the feeling seems to be felt by many. I got shiws try to be trendy and to be unique to be relevant. I think this is proven to be not the attention getting technique for ratings.

And the therapist in the car was just cringy. She should have stayed quiet and observed. Instead she agitates a cop on patrol. Which can distract the cop and jeopardize their safety. Or at worse...gaslights him and everyone gets his wrath. And civilians don't have badge armor from. If she needs to talk, set an appointment before or afterwards to delve deeper to ensure he is safe on patrol.

Pretty soapy episode. Definitely a low point in season. But the show is still a solid 8. So a throwaway episode here and there won't hurt its earning another season.

I love the alternative cam episodes

[tipiet · 9/10 · 2 May 2024]

Every season when these episodes with the whole ''the viewer sees everything through bodycams'' thing come up I am so happy. I love that these give the series a little bit of a different spin every once in a while. I get that some people may find this annoying or irritating but to me it doesn't take away in the least from what is important to the story and what makes The Rookie so great. Quite the opposite actually, it adds a sense of realism that gets lost in later seasons sometimes and this feeling of actually watching police officers in their day to day life tingles me just in the right spot. Always a highlight.

Another Bodycam Episode, this time kinda better

[emo_tot · 6/10 · 1 May 2024]

Let's start with the obvious - the show runners keep on torturing us with yet another random cameras episode. This is like the 5th I think and while it was charming but unnecessary the first few times, right now it's just WHY, OH, WHY, NOT AGAIN!

This time, however, I think the story beats were better, throwing many, many parallels from the episode's narrative to the lives of the characters we've been following for a while.

I am still on the side that Tim and Lucy's breakup was completely unnecessary, but find it cool that they're trying to bring up more male mental health awareness, even if this character might not be the one I wanted this to happen with. (Yes, I'm aware that for us to actually care it has to be a main one, but the couple was just soooo good. I'm actually starting to like the fan theory that Nathan felt pushed to the side with their love story and thus switched gears with his pregnancy and their break up.)

Good episode, bad camerawork, but still good story.

Awful Camera Work

[doug2go · 2/10 · 1 May 2024]

It was hard to concentrate on the story lines in this episode because the brain dead producer/Director - show runner decided that strobe like Body Cam, Photo Cam, Video Cam and Dash cam would make the story more realistic , This is about the 4th or 5th time this show has done this and if they did this every week I would never watch it again. Plus the loop with Lucy & Tim's break up is not only ill advised it makes no sense and doesn't resemble any reality on this planet. Up until this 'Break Up " - The Rookie was one of my top two scripted shows on TV - it is fast becoming one of the worst TV shows I still watch on TV - and this Body Cam episode didin't help.

Great production, wasted opportunities

[imtheamplifier · 1/10 · 4 May 2024]

I may disagree on some hot takes about bodycam element in this episode's cinematography, I kind of like it and unique features like that are always welcome. Cannot mention the colors, sunny city and shadowy places give out marvelous and deep summer vibes.

Now some of my thoughts overall about the show, I believe it lacks bigger plot and new storylines, "conflict" plot part is totally missing, meaning there's practically no room for build up of yet uncovered topics on the show - scenes of great current social interest. This absence leads the show into a trap hole where every episode has one story about one criminal, that criminal loses, good guys win. There is a lack of "realistic violence", and it can only be excused with well written plot.

For example, if there was something political in the world of The Rookie, and it made someone go on a protest or break bad, characters could get into a situation like in the end of this episode but there would be a perfectly reasonable build up for a bad outcome, or just a demonstration to the viewers of where mental illness can get you to.

I know it's just a show but I don't like to see such a drastic difference between how fiction and real world police operate.