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Rosewood pilot
Sep. 24th, 2015 09:08 pmRosewood is the latest in the long line of Genius/Wrangler procedurals. Dr. Beaumont "Rosie" Rosewood Jr. is an independent pathologist who sometimes works with the Miami PD. When his mother asks him to look into the death of a young woman she knew, he ends up working with Detective Annelise Villa, who recently returned to Florida after working in New York. Because he was born 3 months premature, Rosie has a litany of health problems, including holes in his heart that are expected to kill him within the next 10 years.
Plotwise, it's a fairly standard procedural so far, but the cast is really good, and the characters are fun. Rosie is less of an overgrown manchild than the male leads in these shows tend to be, and actually is almost as charming as he thinks he is, though I'm more inclined to give credit for that to Morris Chestnut than the writing. Rosie works with his sister, Pippi, and her fiancee, Tara, and they are adorable. Mamma Beaumont doesn't get as much development as her children, but she's played by Lorraine Toussaint, and is therefore great. I really liked Villa, but feel that keeping the reveal about her past secret until the end of the episode created a bit of a distance between her and the audience (at least for me) so I didn't feel like I got as much of a feel for her as I did for Rosie.
I'm sure people are already dismissing it as a generic cop show that is only getting attention for the mostly POC cast (because there could never ever be a reason for having a mostly POC cast than to get attention), and, as I mentioned earlier, it is a fairly standard procedural, with Rosie's medical condition being the main thing to set it apart. I found it pretty engaging and fresh feeling, though it may be one that I stop watching weekly after a while and switch to bingeing when the season is over, as that's how I engage with procedurals more often than not. Hopefully it won't be another show I like that gets cancelled after half a season. (The TV gods were too kind to me last year with renewals. I just know they're waiting to strike me down.)
Plotwise, it's a fairly standard procedural so far, but the cast is really good, and the characters are fun. Rosie is less of an overgrown manchild than the male leads in these shows tend to be, and actually is almost as charming as he thinks he is, though I'm more inclined to give credit for that to Morris Chestnut than the writing. Rosie works with his sister, Pippi, and her fiancee, Tara, and they are adorable. Mamma Beaumont doesn't get as much development as her children, but she's played by Lorraine Toussaint, and is therefore great. I really liked Villa, but feel that keeping the reveal about her past secret until the end of the episode created a bit of a distance between her and the audience (at least for me) so I didn't feel like I got as much of a feel for her as I did for Rosie.
I'm sure people are already dismissing it as a generic cop show that is only getting attention for the mostly POC cast (because there could never ever be a reason for having a mostly POC cast than to get attention), and, as I mentioned earlier, it is a fairly standard procedural, with Rosie's medical condition being the main thing to set it apart. I found it pretty engaging and fresh feeling, though it may be one that I stop watching weekly after a while and switch to bingeing when the season is over, as that's how I engage with procedurals more often than not. Hopefully it won't be another show I like that gets cancelled after half a season. (The TV gods were too kind to me last year with renewals. I just know they're waiting to strike me down.)