In contrast to most of The Rookie‘s fandom, I genuinely strive to not hate Bailey Nunes only for the hell of it.
She has some constructive traits and attributes, and she or he’s not a foul individual, per se. If something, she’s simply an annoying character.
However The Rookie not often does her any favors after they give her some irritating storylines, and she or he behaves poorly.
Specializing in Jason and Bailey Was a Misstep
Sadly, a big arc NO ONE requested for revolved round Bailey and her ex-husband within the wind to destroy and even kill her.
It was The Rookie Season 6 finale‘s greatest cliffhanger, as Jason and Oscar broke out of jail and have been on a warpath with Jason deadset on searching Bailey down in retribution.
Jason wasn’t The Rookie’s greatest, gnarliest, or most compelling villain on the sequence, so it was already a strike that he’d function a lot area in The Rookie Season 7‘s storyline.
On high of that, the most important risk he posed was to Bailey, and within the lengthy checklist of characters that would’ve had a powerful multi-episode arc, it’s protected to say that Bailey wasn’t anybody’s first draft choose.
The Rookie Did not Capitalize Off Its Cliffhanger A lot of the Season
Probably, The Rookie thought connecting this storyline to Nolan could be worthwhile, however the season doesn’t capitalize off its massive cliffhanger.
We didn’t even see it come to fruition till The Rookie Season 7 Episode 5, once we noticed the majority of Bailey colluding with Malvado, resulting in Jason’s loss of life.
5 episodes into the season, it was exhausting to care anymore about Jason and Bailey, and it was already annoying that Nolan had resorted to some idiotic conduct to avoid wasting his spouse, who didn’t need him to white knight it within the first place.
All the storyline has fallen aside and served as extra of a contrived nuisance than something significant.
If something, we might’ve spent our time on many different tales, together with attending to the underside of whether or not or not Seth is shady. As a substitute, we’ve devoted time to resolving this story arc with Bailey and Jason. It didn’t serve the character properly.
The Collection Undermines The Home Violence Storyline
It additionally hasn’t carried out the subject material justice both, as what ought to have been a significant, highly effective arc about home violence has sufficient of a slapstick edge to take a number of the severity and hazard out of a critical matter that ails many.
Sandwiching Bailey’s home violence arc between different extra urgent storylines starting from action-packed to humorous doesn’t do the subject material justice.
In the meantime, the storyline does extra to highlight a few of Nolan and Bailey’s worst flaws and most annoying qualities, leaving viewers extra underwhelmed than moved by any of it.
What we get is that this storyline that performs into the identical drained trope of The Rookie Barbie: Bailey Badass concurrently doing the dumbest issues conceivable whereas showing like an unstoppable power of nature within the course of.
A doubtlessly compelling avenue of exploring what home violence survivors endure in some way turns into some plot out of a half-baked motion film that ends in Bailey colluding with a employed hitman to take her ex-husband out.
Possibly if she was on her personal and never married to a police officer, the storyline would land higher.
Bailey’s Actions are Ridiculous
Bailey had ample alternatives whereas she was arranging issues with Malvado to contact the police and have them arrest this fugitive and take issues from there.
What are the percentages {that a} violent legal who escaped jail as soon as by sheer luck and absurdity would have gotten the possibility to do it once more?
As a substitute of informing her husband and permitting the police to do their jobs, she baits Jason and sends Malvado after him, leading to an execution proper in entrance of the cops.
Then Bailey acted as if nothing occurred however stupidly left the burner cellphone she used to contact the murderer in her pocket.
Its contriving nature is annoying, and the storyline doesn’t result in an fascinating state of affairs the place Nolan faces an moral quandary after his spouse assists in a assassin.
On this state of affairs, they arrange an ideal state of affairs the place Nolan faces an ethical disaster and has to resolve what his line is as an officer of the regulation and a husband.
Even along with his rogue, impulsive, reckless moments, The Rookie usually portrays him as some boy scout, and his spouse simply did the unthinkable.
However in some way, The Rookie Season 7 Episode 6 doesn’t give us this. As a substitute, we obtained a state of affairs the place Bailey lambasted Nolan for not being supportive or understanding her stance and sympathizing along with her.
I’m sorry, what?!
The Season Squanders Moral Quandaries By Someway Absolving Bailey
And if there was any query whether or not the sequence intends to go together with this, the promo for the subsequent installment has Bradford urging Nolan to not make a mistake along with his spouse and struggle for her.
Are we speculated to overlook that Bailey labored with a hitman to execute two murders? Jason and his blond girlfriend’s blood is on Bailey’s arms.
How has a state of affairs the place Bailey flagrantly commits a felony after which will get upset at her law-upholding husband for calling her out turn out to be one thing the place Nolan has to show his love, loyalty, and price to her?
Why is The Rookie treating this like an everyday dispute between a married couple that may be resolved with a field of goodies and a grand gesture?
Nolan didn’t overlook to take the rubbish out, and he’s not forgiving Bailey or letting her off the hook for lacking his birthday.
Bailey didn’t keep out too late one evening, and she or he’s not indignant at him for lacking date evening.
Why is the Rookie validating Bailey’s anger whereas excusing and downplaying her actions? And the way has Nolan paid the value and is going through some gaslighting?
Over to you, Rookie Fanatics.
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