Editorials

Alexi Hawley teases a funny and unexpected Chenford rescue for Season 9, but Season 8’s finale already showed the show’s favorite shortcut.

The Rookie is still broadcast’s best success story because it reinvents broadcast TV and knows its viewers. Here is how!

ABC now has six scripted series waiting for midseason, which makes it fair to ask why the fall schedule looks so thin by comparison.

Everett was already cuffed, Nolan was unhurt, and Bailey was somehow already in the harbor — Season 9 has some explaining to do.

Wesley Evers may have lost the DA race on The Rookie. But he found his best storyline — right across the courtroom from his wife.

Miles Penn has more than earned his screen time, and Mid-Wilshire’s rookie bench has never been thinner. The Rookie has a rookie problem!

Dash and Nolan’s bond has been building since Season 7, and the show’s future might already be in plain sight.

Seth Ridley’s Season 8 arc set up a villain turn, then swerved — and the tonal whiplash is hard to ignore.

When Bailey rolled her eyes at Oakley’s credentials, The Rookie fans finally got to hold up a mirror in her face.

Zuzu spent Season 8 handing Nolan case-breaking intel on a silver platter, and the show was better the moment it stopped.