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Five Things ‘The Rookie’ Needs to Do If It Gets a Second Season on ABC
The character of Captain Malcolm Reynolds on Joss Whedon’s Firefly is almost a better Han Solo than Han Solo. With just a short single season and a feature film, Nathan Fillion (and his co-stars) have earned a lifetime of goodwill from those of us who watched the show as it aired and have been left wanting more. Now, along with an army of nerds in brown coats and knit hats, middle-aged moms and college kids also love the actor thanks to his run on Castle. This means that his newest series The Rookie is likely to get renewed for a second season. The show is in a terrible time slot, but it’s improved on the ratings of its predecessors. The DVR and streaming numbers are perhaps strong enough to justify a second season. In my initial review, I wrote that this show could be a great one, if only it had the courage to do some different things. Below, I detail five big moves they could make in a second season to make a third one a foregone conclusion.
1. Dive Deeper Into the Issues that Make Up the Stories
Other than the very strong cast, including recurring guests like Sarah Shahi and Shawn Ashmore, the thing that makes this show so unique is the sort of cop stories it tells. We all know that there is a veritable alphabet soup of murder procedurals on broadcast…
