Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robin Miller Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: On Call Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:44:29 -0500 Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net KKxVz3pqtlR9nFy8TcUFoghB7plu9MUwcInbVZ+o5oovZ3vfGm Cancel-Lock: sha1:WGQQ4dnJDCDOgzUEiy82Kfm9F9k= sha256:n503e2m2w9OUbdL+9BTXeFaXe/30vLsFLOiQbyggjJ0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.19 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3399 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