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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-18 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:42:40 -0800
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On 1/19/25 12:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday was 1) football, and 2) streaming TV series. I barely got to
>> soaps:
>>
>> On Call (Prime) - I finally finished this show out. I'm not sure the
>> second 4 episodes were as strong as the first 4 episodes, as the show
>> seemed to go quickly over-the-top towards the end (e.g. PLL bitch! uses
>> a live weapon on the streets for the first time, rookie gets shot (but
>> was vested)). And I'm not sure I cared for the "Reset Button" they hit
>> at the end, esp. because I don't think this show has been renewed yet,
>> so if it ends here it will be an unsatisfying ending... I did like how
>> Eriq La Salle ended up not being PLL's (bitches!) enemy.
>>     But if they did do a second season of this show, I would watch it.
> 
> Really? I bailed after the pilot. Should I be taking a second look?

As a "serious" version of "The Rookie", it's not bad. And I liked the 
30-minute episode format: much preferable to this same material being 
dragged across 1-hour episodes.

However, they need to come up with more than 8-episode seasons - for a 
30-min episode show, 8 episodes per season is a joke.