"Rookie Blue" is, to be quick about it, "
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" with uniforms and guns. That you probably will find that comparison in every review you read of the series, which begins tonight on ABC — in the "Grey's
Anatomy," slot — is nothing I can do anything about. But there is no way I can leave it out of this one.
I don't say this to warn you off — indeed, it may be just the hook that snares you — only to tell you where we are. We are with pretty young people (two male, three
female, as per ""
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they have studied for and dreamed about. They are eager to get started, to get into the thick of it; but not everybody gets to work in the operating room — drive
around in patrol cars, I mean. Yet they also serve who only work the desk and argue over whether the boy rookie or the girl rookie should be the one to frisk a
transsexual suspect.
"We've learned how to shoot and fight and drive a police car really fast," says academy-fresh Andy McNally ( Missy Peregrym). "We're ready." And if they're not really
ready, as the grumpy older cops insist, they'll "fake it till we make it."
More problematic than the dyspeptic veterans may be the hot young detectives, who are to the rookies of "Rookie Blue" as the doctors are to the interns of
"
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end of the day. Moody pop songs follow them on the soundtrack.
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