Here we go again.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have our first police procedural of the Fall 2015 season. Rosewood is one of those shows that tries to work with a fairly uncommon setting (Miami) and the murder cases of the area. Unfortunately, the genre has been cluttered with so much of the same old thing for the past fifteen years that it screams for something different. Is Rosewood the type of show that will fulfill that need?
No.
The Characters
I’m annoying. I like to be totally obnoxious and unrelatable. We make a great team, don’t we?
The show is headlined by Private Pathologist Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. (Morris Chestnut) and Detective Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz). Is there anything that differentiates them from your traditional pairing of a rogue-ish male lead and a round-house kicking, passive-aggressive chick cop?
No.
The rest of the characters are just there. I had to look up their names to figure it out, but everyone from the sister to the male detective from the precinct made no impression on me. I can’t think of any defining character trait that built up their lives in any reasonable way. It’s just not good.
The Plot
Make it stop. Please.
It’s a typical murder case in Miami. A drug runner kills a woman, has a slip-up, and gets arrested. Woohoo. The killer is your typical mustache-twirling villain. There’s just nothing there to keep people’s attention in any way.
Oh, and on top of that, Rosewood has a heart defect and Detective Villa’s husband is actually dead. Who could have possibly seen that coming?
Conclusion
The crime genre needs something fresh and original to differentiate itself, and Rosewood fails spectacularly at doing even the basics to move itself in that direction. You’re better off watching Forever or New Amsterdam instead. While those shows may have been cancelled after one year, they have something else going for them in addition to all of the traditional cop show cliches.
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