The Rookie

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2018–

TV-14

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8.5/10

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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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Episodes144

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Tue, 14 May, 2024

S6.E9The Squeeze

Officer Nolan and Celina take on a special case; meanwhile, Monica enlists help to identify her attackers. Elsewhere, Lopez and Harper discover a connection to the trail of crimes.

9.4/10

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Sun, 23 Feb, 2020

S2.E11Day of Death

Officer Nolan and the entire team are in a desperate search to rescue Officer Chen after her abduction and must attempt to get Rosalind to help them in their search. Meanwhile, after Officer Lopez discovers Wesley unconscious from a dangerous cocktail of alcohol and pills, she is forced to keep him close by.

9.3/10

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John Nolan

Lucy Chen

Tim Bradford

Angela Lopez

Nyla Harper

Wade Grey

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Alexi Hawley

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10/10

It 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 other words, it redeemed itself. It started being a police drama again. It started to be an ensemble cast of compelling characters again. It even got rid of the worst woke characters they injected and brought the whole thing back to the original cast. The politics vanished, and it became about entertainment again. It's a GREAT example of how to make fix a show after a heavy injection of politics.

GenerationofSwine23 Apr, 2025