The Rookie - US-Pace- ABC (**Spoilers**)

Yeah gotta agree on this. I used to be a huge fan of Blue Bloods but their commitment to making each episode exist independently of other episodes totally turned me off it. More longer storylines please!

Yeah thought the same , half the time for some shows, it takes a few episodes to get it's feet. Not a fan how in how even though she is a rookie agent, she feels she can do what she wants

Good episode this week . Also looks like there is going to be alot of cameos from The Rookie :Feds. Tim, Lucy and Smithy showed up in the second episode of Feds, which was actually a bit better than the first episode and then Garza and one of the other agents showed up this week on The Rookie. Next episode for The Rookie is also crossover event with Feds

Yeah but didn't Nolan explain to her why she saw the aura. subconsciously she saw the blood on the car and associated it with a bad aura as a result of a Psychic finding her sister when she was young.

The next episode of Feds is the second part of the Crossover event with them going after the disciple.

I decided to give the spin-off a go against my better judgement, the first 3 episodes were mediocre at best but that last one was really bad. I might give it another one or two episodes to see if it improves in any way otherwise I'll call it a day.

Given it is a spin off from The Rookie I wasn't expecting any sort of realism but the whole 'I was a guidance councillor for 20 years' thing is really grating. I'm hoping they at least drop that before I call it quits, it might be somewhat tolerable without that.

I'm up to date and the show is terrible, probably going to stop watching - it's not going to suddenly improve. As bad as blue bloods IMO.

Longer. The next episode is January 3rd, so there is a 2-month gap between episodes (November 6th was the last).

Yep looks like they moved around the schedule a bit.

Jeeze this is getting really hard going.

Bailey is awful, shoe-horned into every episode, a master of every profession known to (wo)man, and the hair and dress sense of a girl 25 years her junior.

The new physic rookie for Nolan is also torture.

Nyla is also torture in every scene, she is just so cool.

Chen has the largest rear end since Shergar.

Lopez clearly has a warehouse somewhere with random t shirts on one wall and Miami Vice jackets on the other.

Someone said its nearly as bad as Blue Bloods...I think thats very harsh on BB.

I think that its hit the point in the last two seasons of being completely devoid of its original charm and is now a bog-standard procedural where it wouldn't matter if you missed an episode. It was the same thing that made me switch off Blue Bloods; no overarching plot, episode-to-episode stories (more often than not), no tension with any story and worst of all characters that have devolved into huge caricatures of their former selves.

I remember the first season when John was a rookie and the other characters were three dimensional and the storyline where the original captain was caught with John and ended up being killed. Proper heart-in-mouth stuff. Obviously they can't kill off characters routinely but that whole storyline had far reaching consequences and was so well written. The worst part about it now is that they occasionally have a great episode and then follow it up with 4 or 5 stinkers. It's not meant to be "gritty and real" but some of the plots are so unbelievable I end up rolling my eyes.

It's a shame as I really want to love it again, but I think I'm done with it.

The last Rookie episode was OK, but I turned off Feds after 10 minutes. Awful rubbish this week.

Two more of each this season.

Season 5 is on Sky Witness 2nd of February 2023 at 9pm

God both episodes were awful this week (Rookie and Feds).

Those documentary episodes can feck off and die, they are truly the worst.

I managed about 10 minutes of each before switching off.

Yes Niecy is too much as lead plus two other agents look barely 18 ( Britt and Kevin )