The Rookie (TV Series) Coding (2022) User Reviews

Excellent and enjoyable, especially following the lazy cam episode

[bosporan · 8/10 · 4 April 2022]

A strong episode although minimalist in approach (are they short of funds recently?) it works very well with a cut down cast involvement and few locations, mostly indoors. The death, follow-through and eventual plot definition flows sublimely. Though the 'loony, hard-done-by sociopath guy takes over' is a hackneyed cliché, it fits like a glove and the final resolution is tight and efficient.

Was worried by the lame 'cops are bad' dialogue around Nyla's (Mekia Cox) hold of the child, but surprised and delighted by the outcome choice. I love Melissa O'Neil (Chen) who can do no wrong for me, but her trauma script feels contrived and unconvincing.

All-in-all an enjoyable episode especially following the mutant abomination that is the previous episode.

Okay storyline, but story not so convincing..

[kfan-95011 · 6/10 · 5 April 2022]

My mom worked at ICU for more than 30 years and I asked her about some issues going on in this episode, according to her it was not possible for the hospital (especially ICU) to run into some of the things that were scripted in this episode.. but just to clarify, it was in a different country, and she retired 5 years ago, so things might be different and my comment might be biased.

According to her, the machines (e.g. Respirators) can be manually manipulated, meaning even the computer system is down, the nurses/doctors should be able to keep those critical machines functioning.. also ICU gets their own power supply (in case of power cut-offs, which would be deadly to ICU patients), which is not manipulated by hospital computer network, so even if someone hacks into the network of the hospital, the ICU would still function. (I cannot speak for other departments of the hospital, but ICU is the one department that would run into serious trouble as described in this episode)

I understand that TV series may exaggerate things for dramatic effect, and I actually find the story/character development quite good in this episode. But the hospital hack scene just cannot convince me and I somehow find it a little troubling since I actually really like the show especially it tells so many interesting and vivid stories of how a police officer's life looks like since the first episode..

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[pjgasher-64596 · 6/10 · 5 April 2022]

I enjoy the show overall. Yes, it's had some bad episodes but the good ones outweigh the bad. But it's frustrating having a bad time slot where I have to wait weeks at a time for new episodes, that may or may not be good. And I'm seeing when we do get to watch new ones, the commercial breaks are ridiculous. The "chapters" are shorter than the ones in a James Patterson novel. I feel we're getting about 25 minutes of show time for an hour long show. Do better ABC.

Unrealistic, but enjoyable

[pauli_gomez · 7/10 · 15 April 2022]

If you can suspend your belief about the hospital situation, I think you feel the drama of this episode well done. The scene before the credits was perfect. The rest of the episode, not so much, but it was fine. Drama felt real, even the Chen part (I do not like Chen, so that is saying something).

I think the C subplot (Nyla's) was unnecessary and distracted from the main ones.

I HATE ROSALIND DYER

[awbusa · 10/10 · 6 April 2022]

They need to kill off ROSALIND DYER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE , I hate her on THE ROOKIE & I HATED her on CASTLE & I was happy they killed her off & I hate her as the NEW BORG QUEEN on STAR TREK : PICARD -

I enjoy this episode so much

[gpro-74117 · 10/10 · 4 April 2022]

I love the episode because it was enjoyable, funny, and very excellent do more episodes, like those please they are so much fun to watch and I enjoy it vey much. I even like Tamera she is great and her character is so real. Thank you for this wonderful show, it was won't the wait I would say watch it and vote what a good show.

Very unrealistic

[mrcclassical · 1/10 · 7 April 2022]

I love the Rookie, but this episode was really bad. None of the stuff that happened in the hospital could even remotely happen in real life. I get it, it's a TV show and some reality should be suspended, but this was bad at every turn. A little more effort needed to be put forth in the writing.

Elvin!

[Racingphan2 · 5/10 · 5 April 2022]

It's always a treat to see Elvin from the Cosby Show. He does a great job as a concerned dad.

The opening of this show is heartbreaking, but the overused cyber attack at a hospital storyline is stale and poorly done.

Terrible

[john_gray-73360 · 2/10 · 11 April 2022]

This episode actually starts off very well. A woman is found in a car crash by Nolan with injuries that kill her.

The way this part is done is decent, it's genuinely quite sad and handled well. You see how she is taken to the hospital as she is an organ donor and they do the walk to honour her.

After this it all goes horribly downhill. A man wants to bypass the organ donor waiting list to get his wife a new heart.

How does he do this? Hacking! Does it make any sense whatsoever? Nope not in the slightest.

One of the nurses is working on a computer and a low resolution padlock icon appears. The nurse does not try anything, including restarting the computer and instead announces to Nolan how they are "locked out of everything"

Nothing at all is looked into but it's instead assumed that they cannot access anything because they tried nothing and they are all out of ideas.

Apparently the hospital staff are competent enough to immediately recognise the impact of a ransomware style attack, but not enough to try anything, including rebooting their computers??

In practice, speaking from real experience the staff would be contacting their IT department saying something vague about their computer being broken and a padlock.

Also why would the "hacker" bother to setup a custom screen but not make the message state why he is doing it and what he wants? You know... like real ransomware attacks do and these are well documented in the media if the writers fancied spending a gruelling 2-3 minutes researching.

All the lights then turn off in the middle of the police trying to say that it's both locked everyone out of everything and that the "hacker" is bluffing.

If you want to watch a badly written "computers are magic" episode you might enjoy this. Otherwise skip it.

If writers want to be this stupid with IT can you just say it's wizards instead please? It would be more believable.

Not as stupid as some other season 4 episodes.

[travinitrav · 5/10 · 4 April 2022]

Unfortunately its just boring. The writers have this magical ability to take a good idea like holding a hospital hostage and make it seem unimportant and uninteresting. Nobody seems that determined to save a life or stop a madman, the madman himself is terribly dull, and the victims seem almost disinterested in their predicament.

The B stories are also terribly told and dont seem like high effort work from the producers. This show either needs much better writers or it needs less executive meddling.

And by the way what happened to Thorsen? He's not around very much, and he's technically the only rookie. The show was supposed to be about rookies.

Not a great episode

[shuny · 4/10 · 5 April 2022]

Lazy writing. No real police work. They just stood around talking about what could happen if... What would have ever made them suspect something was amiss with the kid? It is all neatly wrapped up at the end with the obligatory lovers' talk. The series was renewed. Does that mean they don't have to try harder to make a better episode?

Yet another "hack everything and people die"

[CapStar362 · 5/10 · 9 November 2023]

Okay, I get it, as an IT Engineer, its thrilling to see some guy with the worlds best IT Programming, Hacking,Networking etc. Etc. Skills and some hacking scheme to save a loved one, but seriously, that is getting kind of old.

There are plenty of reasons why this would never happen and would be A LOT more plausible with a very much required hospital employee who has the needed access to the Computer Systems to actually facilitate this kind of plot.

You simply cannot just take a iPad and completely hack through critical closed loop control systems through guest and patient internet access portals. Virtual LAN's, IP Blocks and the plethora of firewalls that actually are strictly monitored and controlled 24/7 by on-call IT Technicians and Security Personnel, the attempted access to these systems would have sounded a multitude of Alarms behind the scenes and not only that, would have completely locked him out once the unauthorized access attempt was detected autonomously.

The Husband would have had to have intimate knowledge of the Networking layout plus at the bare minimum Bio-metrically controlled access to those systems and no less than 50 or more different uniquely designed passwords to access the "entire hospital" and its systems to leverage such control that he could "kill people at will by cutting off critical control systems".

That is becoming old and just boring with these "give me what i want, and ill turn off the hack" type stories.

So bad I stopped watching

[gdump · 1/10 · 5 April 2022]

OK, this show is known for playing fast and loose with reality, and I am generally willing to accept that. But I can't accept a plot that is simply so stupid it should never have been filmed.

This show has already had 2 horrible episodes this season, the season opener and the one before this. I think the time has come to pull the plug on this show before it becomes a parody of itself.

Worst episode of the entire shows history

[wolfbladet · 1/10 · 6 April 2022]

The writing in this episode is the worst I have seen in a long time. Sloppy from start to finish. From a car accident where they stop working on the patient as a fire fighter and police officer, which they can't. To a hospital that had their power on the internet and get hacked. It was a shame, since the show is normally good. This was a waste of time and treated the viewers like they are idiots.

Sooooo bad.

[mikemikeparker · 2/10 · 27 April 2022]

I love The Rookie but this is a terrible episode. ALL of the procedures- by doctors, police and fire services - are incredibly inaccurate and implausible. Really lazy, stupid writing.

Hope it gets back on track.

Worst of season 4

[nathanhogan-58651 · 1/10 · 24 February 2023]

This started off strong with the scenes of the car crash and the arrival at the hospital but from that point it became very cliché and poorly made.

Not every episode of the Rookie needs to feature every character in the Rookie and this is a prime example of what happens when they try to shoehorn in all the cast into a story that couldn't give them enough to do.

Being the kind of cop show it is, we all can let a little lack of attention to detail pass in every episode but this really started to take the biscuit, the storyline around the kidnapped kid was executed poorly and wasn't believable or even enjoyable.

Hopefully the showrunners learn from this episode and make changes so it doesn't happen again.

Get rid of Jenna Dewan

[dlmcclellan-24769 · 4/10 · 6 June 2023]

Oh my god. This character is ridiculous. Not only can she do everything, firefighter, EMS, arson investigations, detective, doctor, on and on....but it's like she is THE ONLY ONE IN LA. Even the Chicago franchise doesn't make this silly mistake. I do not understand why she is on this show. I hate to rag on looks, but the fillers in her lips look like they could double as John facial razor.

And does Nathan Fillion have a "type"? Stanza K, Emily D (tho she was a redhead in this) and Jenna Dewan all kind of fit a type. It's boring. I love this show, hate that character. And why I gotta write a million words?