Series · Disney+ · 2018

The Rookie

A late start at a hard public job. The cases are television. The decision to begin is not.

How this number was made

Industry
8/10
Household
6/10
Piety
3/10
Courage
7/10
Republic
7/10
Temperance
5/10
Truth
6/10
Stewardship
6/10

8 + 6 + 3 + 7 + 7 + 5 + 6 + 6 = 48. 48 ÷ 8 × 10 = 60.

Not a Tomatometer. A 60 there would mean about 60 percent of critics were positive.
Not an IMDb average. Their figure runs from 1 to 10, and the weights are not published.
Not an age. Another guide can tell you what a child will see. This number says whether to press play.

The eight questions

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A man in his forties becomes the oldest rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Disney+ · 2018 · Series

The Rookie

A man in his forties becomes the oldest rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department.

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The Rookie

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A late start at a hard public job. The cases are television. The decision to begin is not.

John Nolan joins late, which is the interesting fact. A life can be re-aimed. The series around that fact is a competent cop show: a training officer, a mistake, a shooting, a romance. It believes the job is real and that the people who do it can be better at it. It also needs a crime every hour.

Fine for older teens who are starting to think about work. Not a documentary about a city. If you watch it, watch an episode about a mistake and the report, not only an episode about a chase.

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If you have been saying you are too old to start a useful thing, start the smallest version of it this week.

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The eight

Industry
8/10
Training, shifts, a chain of command. Competence is the suspense.
Household
6/10
A son, an ex-wife, a marriage he is trying to do better. The house is in the story.
Piety
3/10
Duty stands in for faith, and is sometimes enough and sometimes a slogan.
Courage
7/10
He is afraid and middle-aged and goes through the door anyway.
Republic
7/10
Policing as a debt to a city, argued by people who disagree about how to pay it.
Temperance
5/10
Crime is the weekly meal. It is not lingered over for pleasure, and it is constant.
Truth
6/10
Rookies lie to look sure. The show is usually against the lie.
Stewardship
6/10
A man starting over so his son sees a different ending.

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Living Historic · 60 / 100

What it really is

Industry

Fine for older teens who are starting to think about work. Not a documentary about a city. If you watch it, watch an episode about a mistake and the report, not only an episode about a chase.

Industry 8

Training, shifts, a chain of command. Competence is the suspense.

Household 6

A son, an ex-wife, a marriage he is trying to do better. The house is in the story.

Piety 3

Duty stands in for faith, and is sometimes enough and sometimes a slogan.

Courage 7

He is afraid and middle-aged and goes through the door anyway.

Republic 7

Policing as a debt to a city, argued by people who disagree about how to pay it.

Temperance 5

Crime is the weekly meal. It is not lingered over for pleasure, and it is constant.

Truth 6

Rookies lie to look sure. The show is usually against the lie.

Stewardship 6

A man starting over so his son sees a different ending.

The verdict

60 of 100

A late start at a hard public job. The cases are television. The decision to begin is not.

The Rookie is on Disney+. 2018.

Series · 2018 · Disney+ · Drama, Crime

Live historically

If you have been saying you are too old to start a useful thing, start the smallest version of it this week.

From the desk of Living Historic.

Founders Notes

Living historically

This is not a settled myth about better people. It is a way of standing in their weather. People understand a thing by fitting it into a story that is still going, so the desk puts you in the middle of it: ordinary lives, the pressure on them, the choice they actually had.

The present is continuous with the past. Crowds, mass moods, a town thinning out, a politics that talks to everyone at once: these are not only chapters. They are forces you can still feel. History here is not a morality play about the dead. It is a way of seeing what is still operating.

You are a link, not the chain. A life runs seventy or eighty years. In that span you are a steward. You inherited a language, a house, a standard. You do not own them. You keep them long enough to hand them on.

The house that keeps this desk landed in Boston in 1630, a hundred and fifty years before the country had this name. They did not arrive into a finished story. They arrived into weather, work, and a place that had to be kept for people they would never meet.

The Rookie is marked Watch awake. A high mark is a story you can hand on. A low mark spends the link on itself.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Training, shifts, a chain of command. Competence is the suspense.
Household
6/10
A son, an ex-wife, a marriage he is trying to do better. The house is in the story.
Piety
3/10
Duty stands in for faith, and is sometimes enough and sometimes a slogan.
Courage
7/10
He is afraid and middle-aged and goes through the door anyway.
Republic
7/10
Policing as a debt to a city, argued by people who disagree about how to pay it.
Temperance
5/10
Crime is the weekly meal. It is not lingered over for pleasure, and it is constant.
Truth
6/10
Rookies lie to look sure. The show is usually against the lie.
Stewardship
6/10
A man starting over so his son sees a different ending.

The Rookie

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