ABC's latest summer drama television series, Rookie Blue, blows. After waiting for this show to begin because I was drawn in by the nicely edited commercials, I was ready to throw the television through the window after the first five minutes. Rookie Blue is not whatsoever a believable cop show. It is painfully obvious that the entire show was modeled after Grey's Anatomy, right down to...well, pretty much the entire story line except they are rookie cops not interns. There is no way that Rookie Blue will even begin to equal Grey's, which isn't even that good anymore. The actors/actresses in a show go a long way in making it successful and I just didn't believe any of them in Rookie Blue. It was terrible.
I was hoping for a good pilot episode of a police drama not a rip off of Grey's Anatomy dressed up as stupid cops. There were so many moments in this show that were terrible. The search scene with the transgender woman was in extremely poor taste. I'm sure that the police joke at the expense of transgender people, but throwing in this long, humiliating scene was juvenile. Are the writers at ABC that out of touch and desperate for ratings? Perhaps so. Unfortunately, that wasn't the only bad writing scene of the episode.
The undercover cop being arrested as a through line in the show was really bad. Isn't there something like a "color of the day" when people are undercover or is that something I picked up from another cop show? She did not blow his cover, in fact, if anything she heightened it by arresting him. I imagine if the guy he was after was that big then the "real" cops would figure out a solution not just drop 8 months of undercover cop.
Not only did they have some gender bashing, but they also managed to throw in some racial stereotypes, too. Why is it that the single mother who is dating a stupid white detective is the only black woman? Come on, ABC! This is pathetic. Writing this out, I can't even believe I watched the entire Rookie Blue episode.
I will be really surprised if this terrible show stays on the air. I don't understand why the summer television programming is so bad. If you missed Rookie Blue's debut then count yourself blessed. It's really too bad that there isn't a mixed martial arts fighting channel on 24 hours per day.