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Subject: Re: On Call
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:07:11 -0500
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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.

-- 
Rhino