The Rookie: Watchable, Charming, but Delusional In Its Depiction of Police Work
6 min readDec 18, 2018
The newest Nathan Fillion vehicle on the ABC network is not that far from his last turn on the network as the writer-turned-amateur-cop Richard Castle. The eponymous series was a great vehicle for the charismatic star because it allowed him to solve crimes but remain a kind of goofball character that worked with audiences. In The Rookie, Fillion plays the…