‘On Call’ review: Another (forgettable) cop show from TV producer Dick Wolf
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‘On Call’ Review: Dick Wolf’s Prime Video Police Drama Won’t Reinvent the Genre
“On Call” is a decent small-scale police procedural. But is it decent enough when it comes from the house of Dick Wolf? The pedigreed eight-part show traded broadcast networks for Prime Video, where it will premiere Thursday. The novelty is that each episode is a bite-sized 30 minutes, with modest character arcs that extend over multiple episodes, and multiple seemingly random crime sequences that propel individual installments. The result feels…
‘On Call’ review: Another (forgettable) cop show from TV producer Dick Wolf
Amazon Prime’s “On Call,” the latest drama from executive producer Dick Wolf, is so intent on selling audiences on the idea that police are unfairly maligned and in danger every moment, of every day, that it forgets to tell a coherent or even fitfully entertaining story. This is the first scripted streaming original from Wolf, who currently dominates the TV schedule on the network side. He’s behind the One Chicago franchise as well as the “Law &…
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Amazon Prime’s “On Call,” the latest drama from executive producer Dick Wolf, is so intent on selling audiences on the idea that police are unfairly maligned and in danger every moment, of every day, that it forgets to tell a coherent or even fitfully entertaining story.This is the first scripted streaming original from Wolf, who [...]
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