'NYC 22' - 'Pilot': Rookie blues
What did everybody think of the new CBS cop drama?
Harold House Moore and Leelee Sobieski in "NYC 22."
Credit: CBS
I posted my review of CBS' "NYC 22" yesterday morning. Now it's your turn. What did everybody think of the new cop drama? Did it have a distinctly New York and/or Richard Price flavor to you? Did you like the colorful backstories or do you wish the characters had been introduced more slowly? Happy to have Adam Goldberg and Terry Kinney together again for a New York cop show, or did you miss "The Unusuals" (assuming you remember it)? At the moment, is Leelee Sobieski living up to her rep as either The Next Helen Hunt or The Next Meryl Streep? And will you watch again?
Have at it.
Alan Sepinwall has been reviewing television since the mid-'90s, first for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, The Star-Ledger, and now for HitFix. His new book, "The Revolution Was Televised," about the last 15 years of TV drama, is for sale at Amazon. He can be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com
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Login or create a HitFix account Login SignupWar Chief Shake Zula
April 15, 2012 at 11:23PM EST Reply to CommentIt was decent overall, but there was definitely a basis for the "clunky" comments from the podcast. Shouldn'tve unloaded the backstories in character tracts in the opening twenty minutes; w/ Goldberg's character in particular, they could've waited until he was at the business end of a shotgun before they revealed his story. At least then, the exposition would've had a place in the larger plot of the pilot.
If it doesn't bomb (and maybe even if it does), I'll be back next week to give it another go. But it's not exactly like I'm lacking for CBS crime dramas (he says as he pulls up DVRed episodes of the other eight such shows he watches); that makes it pretty disposable.
NeoGeo12 Decent for CBS standard yes. For Crime Drama genre as a whole it's just taking up space like all other crime procedurals on CBS. Why can't at least one of the networks do complex crime drama. Why is only three show Justified, South land and The Closer are filling that void.
April 16, 2012 at 12:50PM ESTI enjoyed Watching Shawn Ryan The Chicago Code last year on Fox. Execs at Fox are idiots. They took a bet on a new slate of shows and pretty much three of them have failed rating wise. Two of those three never creatively found themselves. I am talking about Terra Nova and Alcatraz. The Finder has so been a solid show creatively and seems to get little bit better each episode.
War Chief Shake Zula Perhaps there isn't a large enough market to sustain truly complex crime drama in the vein you mentioned. All those shows would be canceled w/in their first month on broadcast. Although w/ the numbers NYC22 got, it's going to be canceled w/in a month, too...
April 16, 2012 at 3:44PM ESTRich
April 16, 2012 at 1:48AM EST Reply to CommentI'm watching it now and already continuity is messed up in the first episode? A lot of rookie cops who don't use their radios, and that little slice of New York where everybody knows every body else. Watch it now since it won't last even 5 weeks!
David
April 16, 2012 at 2:02AM EST Reply to CommentWrite a comment...excellent show better than rookie blue
ezekiel maina
April 16, 2012 at 2:03AM EST Reply to CommentIt was a good premiere, but it lacks a sense of 'a keep watching show'. Hell i would have switched to another show. It needs to have a more creative feature. Hope the next episode is a real NY crime scene/show calibre.
David
April 16, 2012 at 2:11AM EST Reply to Commentharsh comments dude. I liked the cast diversity the cliches the grizzled old trainer the music I'm looking forward to more. Like I said rookie blue was not my cup of tea blue bloods grates on my nerves I like this new series and I hope its given a chance
NeoGeo12 The problem is this show is too watered down. Standard are expected to be high if this a show from likes of Richard Price. We don't need another half-baked Crime procedural pretending too be complex. I wasted a whole year watching Blue Blood season 1. When The Chicago Code which came during spring that season. While showing it potential all season and hitting pay dirt in it's final two hours. It would of been great see Teresa Colvin and Jarek Wysocki taking on the corrupt city institutions. While having Alderman Ronin Gibbons trying to foil the Indictment against him. Also trying to regain his political power.
April 16, 2012 at 1:15PM ESTJohnny Postman
April 16, 2012 at 3:54AM EST Reply to CommentWhat a waste of talent. From the preview ads for this I had thought it was a comedy so gave it a shot. Made me laugh quite a bit but since it's actually a drama, not so good.
Give it 6 episodes and no movie.
asian geek
April 16, 2012 at 9:36AM EST Reply to CommentThe cast are gorgeous but the pilot lacked impact. It's like telling me not to watch it again. Its way off than ROOKIE BLUE. It should have been action packed since its in NYC. At least Rookie Blue had an initiation scene for the rookies at the pilot ep. Did any higher up or a tv nerd geek reviewer watched it and ask for their opinion before they put in on air? I mean come on....
NeoGeo12 Rookie basically a soap opera/Crime procedural it low budget. Does make up for it with smart writing and Dialogue.
April 16, 2012 at 1:24PM ESTNYC 22 has a good cast and Richard Price writing and producing. Yet something went wrong all we got was crime procedural clunky and cliched pretending to be complex.
Kevin Michaels
April 16, 2012 at 11:44AM EST Reply to CommentOne and done-
Where to start on what's wrong? Maybe it was in the opening scene when at least three of the rookie cops got on the same train and same train car (if they went through the Academy they might at least acknowledge each other....). Could it be the premise of pairing rookie cops on the beat without a training officer...or better yet, putting three pairs of rookie cops on the beat in gang turf where an explosive situation is ready to go Mt. St. Helen's? A West Side Story in the middle of the street with only pipes, rocks, bad words, and bad intentions? Seriously? This isn't 1955 any more - Nines and Glocks and deucie-deuces are common on the street from 10 year olds to 30 year old gang bangers....That little slice of new York? That's Hollywood coming at you because it's nothing close to the real New York.....and the characters? Stiff - stereotypical - boring....each of them with a stunning back story that drove them to the force?
I kind of expected much more from Richard Price. This is Blue Bloods Lite without the coolness of Tom Selleck.....
NeoGeo12 The Chicago Code should of been given a second season. Now that was the closest thing to complex crime drama in the last couple years attempted on broadcast.
April 16, 2012 at 12:55PM ESTLee
April 16, 2012 at 3:22PM EST Reply to CommentNothing new and fresh and after just enjoying another season of phenomenal acting and dazzling writing/directing on Justified, I just don't have the patience or interest in watching something this bland, unsurprising and, well, did I say bland?
I tuned in when I read DeNiro had something to do with it (though I haven't liked anything he has done in years, thought there might be a bit of something different) and, as someone who lives in NYC, I was hoping for something - anything, a bit unusual. Harlem is getting piss-poor representation on this show - that irked me - I turned it off after about 30 minutes. I'm pretty sure I didn't miss much.
barry20
April 16, 2012 at 8:15PM EST Reply to CommentA long way from captivating. Cardboard characters and improbable situations. The setup telegraphs the future arc of the series right off the cliff.