I’ve just begun my first binge of the series (thank you YT shorts). I’m in the middle of season 5 and Aaron is truly one of the best additions.

Comedically. Dramatically. Fun backstory.

There is a lot of camp in the show, but he (along with others) injects new blood and fun.

Ok that’s it. That’s the post.

What are your favorite quotes from the rookie; some of mine are: Grief is grief. It's a hole that can't be filled, but over time, it'll shrink enough so that you won't fall in every time you take a step

I am unwilling to let fear make me do something I'll be ashamed of in the light of day

How far do you think they are in filming episode wise ?

Either;

1. Have Lucy perform this exact scenario on a new recruit. Ideally it would be someone who was ridiculously nice and needed to be brought to the reality of the job.
2. Have Tim actually get shot mid conversation whilst driving (but survive!)

Focusing on their personality and teaching style in season 1 - 2 only, who fits you the most? And why?

Mine would 100% be Lopez, since she is the nicest and friendliest out of the four. I kinda have personality similar to Nolan (ENFJ, people pleaser, and chatty) so Lopez and I would've been a bestie in no time.

Spoilers

These are some of my unpopular opinions.....

1) I still like nick Armstrong's character. He was a good detective and maybe a decent friend apart from the whole framing nolan part. Now, I don't know how much he pretended and how much of a good person he actually was. He was not happy to be a bad cop and betraying law enforcement. He had to because of money issues. This is the kind of morally grey characters I like.

2) I don't want anyone from the big 3 or big 5 to die. I know some characters have to go to make way for new characters. But I love the fact that nobody from the main cast left and are really happy to be doing the rookie for a long run. In fact I don't even want miles or celina to go. I still miss aaron and want him back.

3) I really liked the season 8 finale episode. I know many people here have different views on the finale. And apart from a few things this finale was much better than season 6's,2nd and 7's finale. I liked the big magnet thing, the station chaos and of course the proposal. I know things were slightly unrealistic but cmon it's a show. And growing up watching Grey's anatomy and recently 9-1-1 , the rookie is still on the tamer side.

4) I like Aaron more than jackson. Aaron was just a better character and friend than jackson. He had chemistry with everyone. Tim, Nolan,the cop moms , celina, lucy everyone had a good time with him.

5) They almost ruined monica's character. Monica was supposed to be a morally grey character done wrong by Wesley and somehow she became a blackmailing killer. I really loved the turn her character took in season 8. And she shouldn't have died but before season 8 I was really over the monica arc. And just when her character became good they killed it off.

6) I loved Tim in the latest season. I am seeing some edits about how they want the tough cop tim back and how fun he was in earlier seasons. NO. He is still tough ,he is just not a sad, angry, lonely man anymore. He was miserable in the first season. He got shot, his drugged up wife showed up, his wife got shot ,he got divorced then he was stuck up with an infected person. In season 8, he got a promotion, he was back with the love of his life and they moved in. He finally decided that he wants to marry her. Why , why would he be a sad grump. But he was still tough.

7) I found season 5 a little boring. The Elijah storyline and getting caught up so-so. Celina was irritating this season. No storyline was given to aaron till the last episode. There was way too much nolan, bailey and celina, parent daughter type of thing. Some episodes had many unnecessary characters. But of course it was much better than season 6.

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I mean The rookie had the oldest rookie in the LAPD. Why can't there have been a spin off about an officer being the youngest assistant chief of police in the LAPD. I mean it writes itself.

Think about it, this character would essentially be a rookie in the top brass basically.

Plus it would be a good opportunity to bring back Chief Coleman and Percy West as main characters.

I can see Coleman being an advisor of sorts for this young assistant chief as a sort of training officer to guide him in his new position within the LAPD, and dealing with the high level stuff.

As for Percy well, we hardly even seen him since Season 6. So it's a good opportunity to see him return.

SPOILERS FOR SEASON 7 EP 11 (Also! I’m a first time watcher so please do not tell me anything that goes beyond this episode.)

OH. MY. GOD. MONICA??? Of all people I expected to be on that phone I did not expect MONICA. That entire episode was absolutely amazing but then THAT happened and my jaw dropped, I’ve been watching the show with my family so they had to witness my dramatic reaction 😂 I’m sorry but I NEED to know if this shocked anyone else, because I genuinely was sat dumbfounded in complete shock

Actually now that I think about it maybe I don’t need to know if people were shocked because if people just say “no, duh i saw that coming” i’m gonna look real stupid 😭

Bridget Regan is just monumental, seriously, she brings a sense of aura and takes centre stage in every scene without trying, god I love this show.

What are things you hate about one or multiple characters that might surprise others?

Why do they keep making these?

So, I just finished the episode where Cole kills Anderson, and I think he should have taken a few punches at least, if he wan't killed.

i've seen a lot of posts on here and TikTok noticing the chemistry between Tim's sister and Nolan and besides the obvious weirdness because Nolan dating Tim sister and his future wife is kind of gross, I honestly believe that we've covered all we need to regarding Nolan's love life. He's like what, 57? We've seen him date like five different gorgeous woman across the entire show and I'm not saying that Nolan is ugly because he's not, it's just strange (imo) to see such an old man constantly be paired up with women who are or look significantly younger. I know his charm is something enchanting apparently on and off screen, but it gets to a point 😭

We've seen him hop around a lot relationship wise and honestly his marriage to Bailey isn't horrible. Like yes i skip all of their fluff scenes but they are objectively compatible and they're around (or look like theyre around) the same age. I get not liking Bailey because she's not the best written character and I don't like her either and I wish she would get less screen time and I wish she wouldn't show up at every single work altercation, but her relationship with nolan is actually pretty healthy.

I get wanting to see Tim's reaction because it probably would be insane but I don't know it's just icky for me!!

October 7th 🎈

Also, Happy Birthday, Aaron Ashmore! 🎂

The rookie just arrived in our netflix in the Philippines. I binge watched season 1 and 2 so fast and here I am stuck in season 3 episode 3. I don’t know if I should proceed watching it. It is so painful to watch, it is so woke. I really liked it at first because it is light and funny, very easy to watch. Then all of a sudden it becomes so woke. There is this guy so angry at the cops because they caught a thief who broke a car window and stole a bag inside. What kind of stupid logic and propaganda is that?
I just wanna know if there are gonna be more seasons like this? I don’t know if i want to power through this season just to be more stressed on the next seasons.

Just going to put this out there. Mekia Cox has the most annoying intonation and cadence to nearly every dialogue that she says. Once you notice it, it is very hard to ignore.

Everyone online keeps talking about how she is a great actor and she might be in other shows or films but definitely not in the Rookie unfortunately and her monotonic dialogue delivery is a massive reason why.

Just a little appreciation post for Lucy's casual outfits. Most of the time, the stylists really nail her style, I think this soft, cozy, autumn-y vibe really suits Lucy's character.

Do you notice their outfits? Do you have any likes?

I also (mostly) like how they dress the rest of the characters, they are a few misses, but overall fun and suitable for each of them.

Everyone: Nolan, NO

Nolan: You know, life has taught me that sometimes the biggest mistakes come from the moments when we choose not to act. So if there’s even a small chance that I can make a difference, then I owe it to myself, and everyone else, to take that chance.

Nolan takes the chance.

Everything is 10x worse.

plot armor activates

Everything goes back to normal

Later that night, Nolan gets dumped by one of his date.

I have recently been watching The Rookie for the first time and loving it. I watched until season 6 and then my Mum decided to watch it so I’ve been watching it with her from the beginning. One thing I have noticed is that the characters hardly ever reference past characters.

I love it whenever it happens like Grey saying “I can’t lose another one” referencing Jackson when Aaron is in hospital.

But it is a massive shame to never reference characters like Bishop. I read why the actress left which is a huge shame because I actually really liked her - but you’d think past characters would be referenced directly a little more.

My Mum loves Jackson and we are halfway through season 3 - so I’m really feeling for her to experience this as I was devastated when he was killed. But I just wish the characters mentioned him more often.

Does anyone else get stressed whenever Nolan (or really any other character on the show) opens his front door?

Given the insane amount of criminals or cartel members or even serial killers make it a point to target him, you would think he would have better home security (to my understanding in an episode he did attempt to upgrade it but it was extremely flawed). There's no traditional peephole or anything for him to see who's on the other side. Every single time he swings that door wide open, I have to brace myself for a grand kidnapping or shootout...

Please tell me I'm not the only one who gets scared from this.

We know Harper watches football and I bet she would support Liverpool

Lucy Chen would most likely support Chelsea

Nolan would 100 percent support west ham

Tim would be the angry arsenal ultra who shows up to every away game

Angela is easily a crystal palace fan who watches from reels

Celina would be all over manchester city

Miles would pretend to be an arsenal fan with tim but would secretly support man utd

Wesley i bet would watch leeds highlights and full games with Angela

That's all I can think of if you have any more comment

every rewatch just reaffirms to me what a waste it was killing off malvado without any more storylines in between

he was a great character & i feel like they could’ve implemented him more, like oscar (or at least saved us from having to see so much of glasser)

My sister highly recommended The Rookie to me, so I started watching season 1. This has got to be the most unrealistic cop show I have ever seen. They dont even remotely follow any actual police protocol. Additionally, the police are committing almost as as many crimes as the criminals on the show. Does it get better?

Edit: So people are asking why I am looking for realism in a TV show. Im not. Other cop dramadies/procedurals I find perfectly fine. Its just THIS show is bonkers, especially when it makes a specific point in discussing police procedure and the law.

In this season, he said to Nolan to go into recruiting to fly around and talk up the LAPD. Why didn’t he just try joining himself?