First of all I understand that this show isn't exactly how police do their jobs, it's not a reality show or documentary, it's a TV series/show.
Still the first 2 seasons were promising and very well casted, scripted and filmed.
The last 1/2 seasons the show got derailed and I read more reviews of people who agree.
This episode was so staged, from Bailey and Nolan needing to go somewhere far away and then finding Nell and the clean up guy there plus running into Chastity and Pete like that is crazy, unbelievable.
Too bad that the other bad guys waited until Nolan fights the one bad guy who came in. Not very realistic.
The Bradford and Chen (who gained a lot of weight btw, check her outfits this season and then compare it with the first 2 seasons) angle is so predictable. They had a moment in the previous season when West passed away and they always seem to end up together but the "undercover" operation with two (not one but TWO) lookalikes is lazy writting in my opinion.
I am sad to see the show going down hill. The mistakes they make in how the police approaches certain situations changed a lot, more and more procedures are being violated and where is the IA (Internal Affairs) when you really need them?
Maybe it's for the best that IA isn't there anymore otherwise nobody would keep their jobs, especially after Guatemala. (Based on season one and two)
Cops who got shot at aren't protected anymore but the strangest thing in my opinion (in any show btw) is that people who have been through so much together still feel the need to lie to each other or withhold information. Like seriously? That's just too easy to use as a way to create a situation that could easily be avoided.(for example the whole Wesley/Angela/Elijah situation).
It was sad to see Jackson getting killed and written off the show like that. He was a cool and likable person.
What I noticed is the whole woke introduction, which I don't mind but sell it better, make it more believable. Hell, even put a transgender cop in there, I don't care, as long as it's believable.
The two-parter with FBI agent Simone is perfect example of how this show changed and it was also the first time I skipped through a couple scenes. If this were to be a comedy show, I would probably not watch it, but at least it would be believable. Her introduction wasn't that bad but when she stepped in the meeting like that, too late, opened her mouth with all those people there, higher ranked officers was too much. It made me sad to see the show this sloppy. When you look at the show in season one and two, there is no way anyone would get away with something like that, getting suspended and as a trainee/rookie, you are off the force.
Because of episodes like that it's hard to see what Nolan, Chen and Jackson had to go through in the first seasons to make it as a cop and taken seriously. With all the amazing arrests, human lives saved, advices given and cases solved those three still had a though time becoming a P2 cop. And then.... well, then it's lost it's value now.
The show has 3 options here;
-either needs to go back to the well written, acted and filmed series it was (my favourite option)
-cancel the show
-rename it because this is not The Rookie from season one and two, this way you are just fooling the audience.
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