User Reviews

Rookie is one of my favourite cop comedies as a long time Nathan Fillion fan. However every now and then they insist on this absolutely terrible gimmick of turning it into some kind of indie film fiasco - making it seem like the show is filmed from the actor's perspective with phone cameras or drones or documentary style interviews. It's easily the worst method to film an episode centered series like this and makes it almost as bad as the terrible spin-off that was cancelled after just one season.

The other half of the episode was typical banter, comedy and story of the show progressing, from advancing Lucy's side to dealing with the awkward events of last week. But dear god they need to stop with the bad camera perspectives.

Love the rookie - but there is zero chemistry between Bailey and Nolan. So tired of it. All the other characters are great (even Celina is growing on me but she is weak, too). Help this show! Bring back the blond doctor for Nolan. The banter between the cast is enjoyable. I don't mind the break in pace between intense crime scenes and fun. However, Bailey's acting skills are so poor. She can't even fake a yawn. Sorry Bailey. You are cute - but that's it.

The connection between Lucy and Tim is so fun to watch. Tim is a fantastic actor and so is Lucy. Love this connection. Please keep this going!

When I started to watch "the rookie" I looked forward to each new episode. They had cast issues which were glossed over but not forgotten. Now it seems that the show has degrated to being a silly soap opera. The latest episode is a perfect example. Instead of being a hard hitting drama about life on the streets in LA it has become a celebration of the characters as mushy as they have become. I don't know if they have changed writers or whatever but they need to make some changes if the show is going to survive. I give the show a three star only because I remember how good it was when it started. I hope someone with influence realizes how bad the show has become and makes the necessary adjustments.

Please! No more of these Blair Witch style episodes.... I am begging you.... No more. Everybody agrees, The Blair Witch was not good and neither are these episodes. Please read your reviews.

The storyline for this episode is good, but this filming style gives me such a painful headache. I do not understand why they would use so much poorly filmed footage in a single episode.

This show is one of only a few that I still watch, but some of these episodes are becoming hard to watch.

This one is not quite as bad as the other 2 True Crime episodes that were filmed as a documentary, where basically the whole episode is used as an excuse to film it with shoddy camerawork. This episode was somewhat watchable. Half of it was filmed as you would expect a show of this caliber to be, but the other half of the episode will require 2 aspirin after watching.

These novelty episodes with terrible camera work need to stop.

At least once an episode I seem to say "this is so stupid" and this episode had me saying it several times. Virtually nothing happened except a hammy honeymoon plot... who takes so many cameras away with them anyway?

I genuinely wish they would kill Bailey off; she is so unrealistic, over hyped (while being totally puny and tiny - genuinely don't think she would pass as a firefighter EMT physically) and Jenna Dewan's portrayal is wooden and there's literally no chemistry with Nathan Fillion at all. John Nolan also has to be the most cursed character on TV... his career has been one disaster after the next! Even John McClane wasn't this unlucky!

I would definitely be down for an Angela/Nyla spin off though. They are awesome.

ABC has always shown Nathan Fillion love and being a Firefly fan from back in the day, I consider myself a fan if his work, however this show continues to test my devotion... Firstly, I agree with the previous review that Bailey is an unnecessary character that has zero romantic chemistry with Nolan. Her exiting the show would not change things one bit for the negative.

This episode in particular bothered me. How does a beat cop in LA afford his own home, to pay for a tropical honeymoon, and buy about 10k in surveillance "toys"? Why does the resort owners daughter work as a maid and why is she always wearing a leather jacket? What world would allow two detectives to take off to the tropics to play "backup"? In reality, they'd know that would never be allowed and it'd be much more efficient to let the local cops handle things, but for some reason it took less time for two cops to fly down from LA than for the locals to come to the island?

I've come to like Aaron after he replaced Jackson, but the entire mood of the show has become so interested in not offending anyone's sensitive feelings that it's resulted in successfully creating a weekly hour of absolute garbage. Fillion is no rookie anymore, wrap it up and move on to your next ABC career!!