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Rosewood can be fun in spots, but more often is way over-cooked.
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If Rosewood is unremarkable, there is still a place for unremarkable television in the mental life of the culture. (Creator Todd Harthan worked on USA's amiable, undemanding "Psych.") And if Chestnut and Ortiz don't exactly burn up the screen, they are not hard to take, like the show they live in.
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Rosewood tries so badly to create the next prime-time super couple, but the duo at the heart of this awkward crime procedural are less together than they are apart.
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The only original thing about Rosewood is that the flashy, genius pathologist with a dark secret is, in this case, a black man, and the tough yet vulnerable cop playing across from him is a Hispanic woman.
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The show has a certain sunny Miami gloss, but that doesn’t blind us to the generally perfunctory script, the flat pacing and the useful but unremarkable dialog. Everyone involved really deserves better, including the audience.
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Chestnut, a reliably charming presence on screens small and large, is by far the best the thing about this painfully conventional procedural that borrows aethestically from "Miami Vice."
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Beyond the tired, will-they-yes-of-course-they-will dynamic between Rosewood and Villa, the show’s premise is weirdly thin. There’s no macro-story, and Rosewood’s only other element is a character attribute, not a story driver.
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Rosewood isn't awful. But both Chestnut and the viewers deserve much better.
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Rosewood still seems like something you’ve watched before. It’s like Burn Notice meets Royal Pains interrupted by Cops.
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The first murder they investigate suggests that Rosewood will be a drama as bright and shallow as fresh paint on stucco.
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Rosewood brings nothing distinctive or memorable to the formula, aside from the welcome diversity of its cast.
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Dr. Beaumont Rosewood [is] a grating piece of work.
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Morris Chestnut is pretty, and so is Miami, but this show wastes them both.
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Rosewood is a snooze and a half. The dialogue is awful, the series largely humorless, and every move that happens in the pilot is something you've seen done better elsewhere.
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The show has a strong, likable cast--Mr. Chestnut, in particular, seems to be having fun--but when cliches pile up faster than clues, it’s time to change the channel.
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At its worst, Rosewood plays like the kind of ridiculous, over-the-top drama with which a sitcom character becomes obsessed. At its best, it offers its audience the chance to feel smarter than its characters.
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Other pilots this fall are worse, but few are more middling.
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Chestnut does make for an attractive lead, but the series leaves him smartly dressed up (medical scrubs, apparently, don’t go with the billboards), with no place to go.
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A derivative procedural with uninteresting, annoying characters and boring plots, it has little to recommend, save for its glorious shots of Miami nightlife.
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Rosewood's pilot is stuffed with hackneyed setups, tedious exposition and character quirks galore.
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A crime-fighting Miami pathologist who likes to smirkily show up the cops with whom he works as unscientific dumbasses--sort of like Neil deGrasse Tyson with a badge, and in just as much need of having his eyeballs slapped out.
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Rosewood is so generic it does a loop-de-loop all the way through inadvertent self-parody, landing back on mere mediocrity again.
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There’s hardly a crack in his veneer or any ironic punch line to his act--we’re just meant to accept him as the coolest man in Miami. As such, he’s just another dull, pretty detective who solves his cases too quickly.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 68
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Mixed: 13 out of 68
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Negative: 27 out of 68
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Feb 2, 2016
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Dec 3, 2015
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Sep 24, 2015