The first episode of 10-8 started out with a crime stop that turned out to be a training exercise. Again. That’s been the start of at least three new series premiers this year. It’s hard to surprise people like that (and particularly hard in this case, as the “criminal” being confronted was clearly Ernie Hudson, who had been advertised as one of the cops in the show.
This is a show about a rookie on the L.A. Sheriff squad. Only it’s a version of L.A. where a bunch of interesting things happen to a rookie on the first day. And most of them aren’t believable. And most of them aren’t actually interesting, come to think of it. It’s a trie version of cop work, and there’s nothing really going for it.
