I wanted to like Rosewood because Morris Chestnut is an actor who could carry a breezy police procedural, but this pilot was a drudge. A charming character telling people he's charming all the time isn't actually charming. Rosewood's love affair with himself, which included multiple times where he pointed to his own image on a gigantic billboard, left me feeling like the grumpy-pants cop played by Anthony Michael Hall.
I know pilots always lay it on thick when introducing the main characters, but Rosewood and Jaina Lee Ortiz's Detective Villa laid out their entire life stories to each other with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
The crime solved in this episode was exceptionally bland for a pilot. The way that Rosewood got a drop on the villain at the end was like an SNL skit of bad cop dramas. He wielded a syringe as a weapon!
I know pilots always lay it on thick when introducing the main characters, but Rosewood and Jaina Lee Ortiz's Detective Villa laid out their entire life stories to each other with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
The crime solved in this episode was exceptionally bland for a pilot. The way that Rosewood got a drop on the villain at the end was like an SNL skit of bad cop dramas. He wielded a syringe as a weapon!