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From: Robin Miller <robin.miller@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: On Call
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:44:29 -0500
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Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-01-12 11:50 AM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 1/11/2025 11:30 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>> Thanks to Robin, I've just found a new show that I'm already very 
>>> fond of. In today's TV News post, she mentioned an article about a 
>>> new show called On Call. I read the article and was sufficiently 
>>> interested to check it out.
>>>
>>> The whole first season was dropped at the same time. Despite being a 
>>> cop drama, episodes are only half an hour long rather than a full 
>>> hour. That's a bit retro and harkens back to the 50s when many dramas 
>>> were just a half hour. But it is set in the present and uses a lot of 
>>> body cam and occasional surveillance cam footage so it's more like 
>>> The Rookie than Dragnet. The first season is just 8 episodes and I've 
>>> watched half of them already.
>>>
>>> It's set in Long Beach California rather than in LA proper so that's 
>>> a bit different. The two leads are an experienced female training 
>>> officer and a young male rookie, played by Troian Bellisario and 
>>> Brandon Larracuente respectively. (I remember Larracuente from The 
>>> Good Doctor but have never seen Bellisario in anything before.) Two 
>>> familiar faces, Eriq LaSalle, and Lori Loughlin, play more senior 
>>> officers, a sergeant and a lieutenant respectively. Monica Raymund 
>>> makes a guest appearance in the pilot.
>>>
>>> There are a few plot lines intertwined in the episodes I've seen so 
>>> far. An officer is killed by gang-bangers in the first episode and 
>>> tracking down the shooter is a high priority. Bellisario's character 
>>> is regarded with some concern in the rumour mill; her rookie gets 
>>> wind of this and wonders if she can be trusted. The rookie, being a 
>>> rookie, makes mistakes and that causes tensions with his training 
>>> officer. And some other stuff but I don't want to spoil too much.
>>>
>>> I recommend this show to anyone that likes a good cop show. It 
>>> somewhat reminds me of SouthLand, a show I was quite fond of and must 
>>> rewatch before too long. This is a Dick Wolf production and I've 
>>> gotten into the habit of avoiding those in recent years but this one 
>>> if better - in my opinion - than the umpteenth Law and Order spinoff.
>>
>> And, strangely, Amazon seems to have released all episodes at once.
>>
>>
> I mentioned that at the start of my second paragraph.
> 


Or, as they say, "reading comprehension!"

:-)

--Robin