Critic’s Score: 4.3 / 5.0
4.3
Are all of us bracing ourselves for “Seth’s revenge,” or am I being paranoid?
We lastly made some headway on The Rookie Season 7 Episode 10 with Seth, however there’s no means that’s the tip of his story, proper?
In the meantime, the staff needed to handle a riot on the station and a convoluted and creepy case involving some teen ladies, which was sufficient to present a lady whiplash!
Raccoon Chronicles — The Rookie Nails the Humor Each Time
There’s no different collection that may pull off a full-blown facet plot that includes a freaking rogue raccoon working round.
The raccoon enjoyable throughout the episode supplied some levity, but it surely additionally paid off when the one one who advocated for its loss of life owed it a debt.
It’s typical of Smitty to be the one to have a run-in with a raccoon, however there was no means of figuring out that it could end in a nerve-wracking bit the place an unsuspecting however harmful inmate beat him up and stole his weapon.
Respectfully, when is Smitty retiring? I’m asking on behalf of his every thing!
It was additionally enjoyable to have Mr. Texas himself trying to make use of some wrangling to seize the factor. However, naturally, he screwed all of it up, and Celina, like a freaking Disney Princess, managed to coax the factor right into a cage just by being her superior self.
Petition for Lisseth Chavez to truly play a Disney princess. Manifesting that for her, dammit.
What within the Slenderman and Zuzu Was that Case?
I’m contemporary off the riveting restricted collection Adolescence. One thing I urge everybody to take a look at, so my blood was boiling over the concept that some unusual man brutally stabbed a trio of women within the park.
Sadly, it didn’t look like one thing out of the peculiar or too far off from any variety of mindless acts and crimes towards younger women and girls.
However the extra the 2 ladies began telling the story, the extra suspicious the entire thing turned.
Earlier than the others confirmed it with these interviews, it was a bit off that they recited the identical story verbatim when recounting what occurred to them.
And, after all, it was alarming to be taught that Charlotte and Ava’s wounds had been superficial in comparison with poor Grace. Their stab wounds weren’t defensive however fairly a mirrored image of them doing the stabbing.
With pals like them, who wants enemies, proper?
Some creepy AI app is why they launched into this journey of attacking their buddy. “The demon made me do it” is what all of it boiled all the way down to, and shivers ran up my backbone when Charlotte lastly acknowledged the reality of what occurred.
If I reconsidered not having children for a second, an installment like this may have me firmly content material with my resolution.
Can Harper and James Ever Get well?
Initially, this appeared like a case that will have Nyla’s undivided consideration, however as a substitute, she discovered herself caring for James for many of the day, even when every thing in her needed to flee once more.
It’s fascinating to pinpoint that Nyla doesn’t do effectively with emotional discussions and confrontation. She’s a little bit of a runner and avoidant, and she or he’s been struggling for a while.
She’s thrilled that James is again and protected, however she nonetheless hasn’t processed every thing that occurred and is anxious about so many issues.
It looks like she’s in her head, mulling over the state of her relationship and perhaps a few of their variations. Simply when it felt just like the worrying nature of The Rookie Season 7 Episode 9 would end in bringing them nearer collectively, now, I’m not so positive.
As my colleague acknowledged in his piece discussing the Nyla/James marriage, may they actually be a doomed pairing?
They mentioned James’s affiliation with a felon, how damaging it was, and the way it may have landed the pair in hassle. One thing about that doesn’t appear to click on for James.
Their points on that entrance stay unresolved. By the tip of the hour, a teary-eyed Nyla appears so emotionally crushed down that I wish to attain by the display and hug her, however what can presumably be subsequent for these two?
Can they ever discover a solution to work collectively with out their totally different positions and statuses getting in the way in which? Their variations are creating an even bigger chasm between this in any other case stellar couple.
Love After Lockup — Not on Celina’s Watch
The chaotic nature of the inmate scenario was extra entertaining than it appeared prefer it could possibly be.
It’s wild that with zero discover, some correctional facility can name up a station and mainly demand that they home a bunch of prisoners on a whim after a riot.
It wouldn’t have been so dangerous if a statewide police laptop replace had not left everybody at the hours of darkness, unable to find out who was amongst jail inmates.
Expertise is meant to make our lives higher and extra manageable, however this complete installment made the case for the way it ruins every thing. Between creepy AI and inmates with QR codes, what have we develop into as a society?
What occurs when all of this crashes, leaving us with the fundamentals, and nobody is aware of the best way to navigate them?
Anyway, inmates catcalling Celina had its amusing moments as she was completely over it and able to kick some butt.
The random riots added to the chaos and rigidity. In fact, the near-prison break ramped up the motion. Issues may’ve gone sideways with Kyle.
Seth Will Come Again with a Vengeance, Proper?
However essentially the most thrilling a part of the hour was when The Rookie lastly addressed the Seth problem.
Think about if he had stayed house as a substitute of being so keen to return to work and play cop. He may’ve averted a lot or at the least purchased himself one other week or two earlier than he did one thing else silly.
Seth bumping into his former oncologist was attention-grabbing as a result of it implied that he had most cancers sooner or later. He’s solely mendacity about it now.
However then he tried to cowl his tracks by mentioning one other oncologist, and he had no means of figuring out that Lucy would speak issues over with Luna.
Principally, the brand new oncologist is somebody whose medical license is dangily by a thread. He’s seedy, so he can be somebody who would cowl for Seth for the suitable worth.
And his insurance coverage ought to’ve lined just about anybody, so his claims that he needed to swap medical doctors due to that purpose was a load of crap.
With these little issues, Lucy had sufficient to talk to Bradford and Gray, and so they compelled Seth’s hand by demanding a blood take a look at to show his most cancers standing.
Due to his probationary interval, he didn’t have a proper to privateness, and he confirmed his hand when he refused the take a look at. The vary of feelings he went by as he raged about them not believing him in spite of everything of his lies was an excessive amount of for me.
What do you even do with this child?
He’s not a cop, and the boot obtained the boot, but it surely’s uncertain that it’s the final of him. Seth has by no means been as creepy as he was when he threatened to sue and was offended about what occurred.
Seth will undoubtedly do one thing about this, and I hope that it doesn’t put Lucy’s life in jeopardy. If Seth has an ax to grind with anybody, it’ll be Lucy.
There’s no means Seth will stroll away from this so simply and gained’t increase some hell or react.
Ideas from the Bullpen:
- Zuzu working down all that details about Nolan and texting him later to ask in regards to the present was so creepy.
- If Zuzu knew who Bailey was and her hundredth birthday this yr (as a result of didn’t she simply have one), may it have shared that shady stuff she did with the hitman, or am I simply being a hater?
- Celina courting that obnoxious man who sings “Daddy Cop” is hilarious.
- Celina’s need to introduce her new boyfriend to Nolan and Bailey is cute. They’re so “family-coded” generally, and it’s the sweetest.
- Miles continues to be the present that retains on giving.
Over to you, Rookie Fanatics.
Did you’ve gotten enjoyable with this installment? Is that this the final of Seth?
Let’s hear it under!
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