NATHAN FILLION SERIES 'THE ROOKIE' QUICK SUMMARY REVIEW

Nathan Fillion just kinda headlines THE ROOKIE Year: 2018 Grade: F—

Seconds can feel like minutes, and minutes like hours on TV, or cinema, which can carry a lot of information in a short amount of time... And five of those could have provided a montage of this 49-year-old man going from wanting to become an old cop to actually becoming an old cop. Random shots of basic training, or... something... anything...

Played by a thinned-down, Jason Bateman-looking Nathan Fillion, THE ROOKIE is both an appropriate and ironic title, but he's on-the-beat too quick while we're introduced to the other rookies, all the right young age and each resembling a magazine model (the most beautiful hopping right in bed with Fillion's unassuming John Nolan, as if he were the former star of CASTLE instead of a midlife-crisis-suffering everyman). Without a chance to really learn about this guy, the shallow and cliché co-stars are forced upon us — feeling like yet another cop series in an ocean brimming with them. So while being promised something slightly different, THE ROOKIE is more bland dough from the same old boring cookie cutter. And worse.