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The Rookie - Season 1
The series begins with a series of exciting events with a story that looks unique in Los Angeles. A young man named John Nolan wishes to become a police officer and is his unique dream since childhood. He may have some doubts from senior officials around him who still view him as just a middle-aged crisis. It seems to be a lot different for John the ambitious fighter.
29 May 1978, New York City, New York, USA
3 August 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 February 1972, Powder Springs, Georgia, USA
19 September 1984, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
26 November 1972, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
26 February 1968, Kingston, New York, USA
18 December 1965, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
October 16, 2018
It's kind of fun to have a series more interested in building out a large ensemble of characters, where the cases are secondary to the characters bouncing off each other.
October 16, 2018
Kicking off the series with a laughable setup is never good.
October 16, 2018
It's a breezy drama that doesn't demand much from the viewer, but Fillion's easy charm is tough to dismiss.
October 15, 2018
If anyone but Fillion tossed out a line so smothered in schmaltz, you'd either laugh or groan. But Mr. Likable nails it and largely nails this comfy, corny and (yup) likable pilot, too.
October 16, 2018
The opening episode is smartly written, with crisp dialogue, and it sure has charm. Fillion is enormously likeable here.
October 16, 2018
Fillion grounds The Rookie with just enough wry humor and low-key charisma to lift the formula, and he gets yeoman support from a diverse ensemble of rookies, training officers and bosses.
October 16, 2018
The Rookie seems destined to test the limits of [Fillion's] charm, in a show where the shaky imagery can't obscure that we've seen every beat here before.
October 17, 2018
The Rookie is just good enough to be a show you can watch without taxing your brain all that much. And sometimes you just need shows like that in your life.
October 16, 2018
It's not anything you haven't seen a number of times before.
October 16, 2018
ABC sorely needs a surefire hit, and The Rookie looks like the best bet to deliver as a cop drama with a sometimes unsteady aim.

