Fresh out of the FBI Academy, Simone Clark arrives in Los Angeles and has her sights set on joining Matthew Garza's newly formed special unit as they investigate the murder of a federal engineer. Garza's squad includes Carter Hope, a promotion-hungry traditionalist, Laura Stenson, a talented agent in desperate need of a second chance, and Brendon Acres, a former actor who graduated from Quantico with Simone. On the home front, Simone and Cutty's father-daughter relationship is put to the test as their opposing opinions about law enforcement come to a head
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well said - been trying to articulate why I don't like this (after watching all the episodes so far this season) and you hit the nail on the head.
Big fan of The Rookie, decided that I would have to watch this too. First presentation tells a lot but I have not been impressed with this first episode. Loved Simone Clark when she appeared on The Rookie but here as a fed I would have thought she would at least try to fit in a little and that her big personality would sometimes create interesting situations but instead she it's all about her big personality. She gets assigned to a new unit that has just been created. The Boss has physical health issues the senior agent has problem that ^prevents him from being promoted the Behavior assessment person washed out of her former unit. This new unit, one would think would have the best of the best working in it yet is seems to be all some sort of screw ups. Then arrives Simone and her unwillingness to follow any sort of common-sense FBI procedures, once again it is all about her big personality. At one point the team is flying to a potential crime location and the boss asks his BAU person to describe what type of person they will be dealing with. She gives her professional opinion, yet Simon disagrees and describe the person in a different way. The boss then goes with Simone's description. Then why did he even bother having a BAU expert on his team in the first place.
Bottom line The Rookie is all about a group of rookie cops who each in their own way have something that makes the dept better. Whereas the Rookie Fed is all about Simone Clark. everybody else's expertise means nothing.
That being said I will give it a chance just to see if the writers are able to create a better visual team where everybody has something to add to this new Unit. But I don't know if they will be able to do that.
too much virtue signaling - will give it a chance - just for Faison, Solis, and Lesure.