#silverskull's top 3s

[silverskull]

What are you top 3 episodes in each season of The Rookie, aaaaaand your least favourite in each season? (Same rules apply, no 3x13, 5x15 or anything like that...)

y u trynna kill me, ms sarah.

Okay. *cracks knuckles* Let's do this.

We’re going in reverse chronological order. Non-chenfordy episodes (like 515) don’t count.

SEASON 5 - Top 3

1 - 501 - Double Down And, tbh, this is probably my favourite episode OF. ALL. TIME. The disguises. The private jet. Las Vegas. “Do you wanna come in?” THE SHEER RIDICULOSITY. 5/5, no cap.

2 - 518 - Double Trouble If there’s a ‘double’ in the title, there’s a silverskull in the audience. Again. RIDICULOUS. Brilliant. Colourful. Silly. Insightful. I’m of the opinion that the True Crime episodes exist outside of reality, but that doesn’t mean that what they said doesn’t still stand. Lucy has nightmares that Tim will get killed. Tim bottles shit up. Sava is a spicy cinnamon roll. Jake should not have died.

3 - 512 Grrarararrra, how to pick between this and 508 and 510? BUT. I think this episode tops them because we get to see both Couple!Chenford and Work!Chenford, and both are beautiful and brilliant in their own rights. There is nothing to match the perfection of the colouring in 508, but the warmth of the ending of 512 is a close contender. I just. love. basking in it.

SEASON 5 - Bottom 3

1 - 503 I think Eric and Melissa did a lot with the little they had, but I would love to have seen more of the characters’ terror at Lucy being missing. Missing and trapped in a small, locked, space. Missed opportunity.

2 - 514 I don’t dislike this episode, but since Tim is spending all this time at Lucy’s apartment - to the point that Tamara is signing herself an exit ticket - I would love to have seen him interact with the two women a bit more. Or at least pick up on the tension between them.

This is the show’s biggest flaw, IMHO. We would kill just to see these characters sitting around and talking to each other, but they’re always so damn busy. I love 513, but they could have done the entire episode in Nolan’s living room and I wouldn’t have complained. That’s how much I love them. How much we love them.

3 - 511 I’m clutching at straws here, because I adore season 5. BUT! I would have loved Genny to stick her nose into Tim’s business a bit more. I know the episode dealt with serious DV issues in Lucy’s storyline, but since she was there anyway, I think Genny should have done more wondering aloud as to why Lucy was always by Tim’s side. Cough cough. I don’t ship my siblings with their partners, but you can bet your ass I’d be snidely commenting if their “work partner” turned up to randomly coach my son’s baseball team!?!

It turns out, exactly as I suspected, this question is gonna take A LOT of time, so I'm gonna make it a series, thank u, @queseraone.

[silverskull]

Chenford Top & Bottom 3s

SEASON 4 - Top 3

1 - 422

Look. Reality stars can make all the claims they like. THIS. Episode. Broke. The Internet. Tamara? Dim? Jake? THAT SQUIRRELL? I mean, I hardly remember anything else, all those scene were so mind blowing.

(frfr, I have a lot of emotion tied up in this episode too. It literally got me through a very very very tough few months, and it was my happiest spark for quite a while.)

[1.5 - 418 - Just the dance at the wedding. I watch that over and over and over.]

2 - 412

STOP. Please. This was so funny. How did Tim and Lucy not realise they were dating each other? And they did that same 512 thing of Work!Chenford and Couple!Chenford before they were even together?! And it was (maybe) hotter than 512??? Because they were all up in each other’s shoulders in A. MORGUE??!?? as well as on their double fucking date?!??! ded.

3 - 409

I’m a sucker for Genny. I just love her being randomly thrown into all these Chenford scenes. “Hello, Ms Actress, yes. Yes you are hired to be this really hot guy’s sister. Your job is just to provide a personal life for his Aide to inveigle herself into. Thank u.” 

But seriously. This was a really important emotional beat for these two, and I loved that it was Lucy there with Tim. It could have been Angela, like, I guess. But it wasn’t. And I am so pleased that they gave them both all of these scenes together at the renovation, with Genny, solving the mystery of the gun, and - vitally - at Tim’s fathers’s (death?)bed.

SEASON 4 - Bottom 3

[obviously I can’t say 417, because someone fucked up and forgot to pair them together for this VITAL MOMENT IN LUCY’S LIFE.]

1 - 413

I am allowed to say this, because they had 2 (two) scenes together. LOL. But we really should have seen the whole gang go out for drinks on Nolan, PUH-LEASE.

2 - 415

Blegh, they had scenes together, but I actually can’t even recall what the main storyline of this episode was. “We like Wesley … We fear Lopez” was probably the best bit. They were cool in their tactical gear in the suspect’s house, but there wasn’t a lot of characterisation to it.

3 - ?

I’m actually stumped. I didn’t dislike any of their other moments in this season (brief though they may have been). Season 4 gets a bad rap, but considering we were just coming out of the pandemic and Tim and Lucy had new love interests (bleuck), I think we did rather well overall. It was a slow and steady attrition of feelings, and it worked out in our favour.