About halfway through S3 of Shrinking. This show is great. All the feels all the time.
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The show should have ended after Nolan and the others became cops and stopped being rookies.
The death of West came out of nowhere and felt super weird.
The honeymoon episode of Nolan and his wife on this island was so bad it really killed any interest I had to watch more. It was also the worst rated on IMDB.
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Oh yeah, honeymoon episode is awful. And I do hope they end it after season 8. The value added by good writing is a diminishing return at this point.
I have started to fast-forward in 30sec skips the action scenes. There were a couple fights/shootouts (both) that were beyond laughably bad. My favourite was a phalanx of riot shield wielding baddies: the shields cover head to knees, more or less. Four guys up front had shields, with another 8 behind them.
SHOOT THE LEGS.
Just… point down a little, bam. Guy with shield drops, and then hose down everyone behind them.
But no.
Also, guns in the show are shockingly variable in their lethality. Which might be accurate to real life? I dunno. But the number of shootouts by this point must be… 7 seasons with 15 episodes per seaon (on average, the earlier seasons were longer and S6 had only 10)… 70? 80? It’s just ridiculous. They have shot up SO MANY shops.
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It’s funny how you can have a vague idea of what a programme is in your head, and then someone describes it, and you realise it’s a completely different kind of show.
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I think The Rookie especially has changed significantly over the seasons - I drifted away from in about S3 or 4 - partly because of the usual TV show problem about escalating consequences.
“In S1 they’re fighting criminals.
In S2 they’re fighting crime gangs.
In S3 they’re fighting international crime cartels.
In S4 they’re invading Poland.
In S5 they’re conquering other planets …”
and so on.
Reminds me very much of the EE “Doc” Smith Lensman novels, where the escalation in weapons went through using whole planets as conkers to creating a planet sized anti-matter sphere.
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The shootouts are a bit ridiculous, the most ridiculous one in my opinion was when Tim jumped out of an ambulance, in which he was lying heavily injured after another shootout, shooting the last bad guy.
@jfs And yeah you are right too, as soon as they started preventing terrorist attacks on LA and the rest of the US, it left the show’s premise very far behind and you wonder how further they could escalate it.
It is a bit sad, we really loved the show for the first seasons.
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Went and saw Supergirl last night. It was fine. Well acted, but the plot felt a litte meandering. Still a fun time.
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