Created by Tim Walsh and Elliot Wolf, this police procedural follows Long Beach Police Department veteran Traci Harmon (Troian Bellisario) as she trains her rookie partner, Alex Diaz (Brandon Larracuente). Harmon is a no-nonsense, by-the-book officer, which puts her at odds with old-school Sgt. Lasman (Eriq LaSalle), who wants to see Diaz take a tough approach to increasingly violent street gang East Barrio.
It’s a gritty show with a fair amount of body camera point-of-view, which adds to the realism, but the short 24- to 30-minutes episodes don’t leave a lot of time to fully develop characters or plotline. On the other hand, the short runtime makes this very bingeable, and season 1 zips by. I was immediately ready for season 2, which has yet to be greenlit.
What the series does best is communicate the difficulty of police work. Doing the right thing and the by-the-book thing aren’t always the same. Harmon’s job isn’t just to show Diaz the ins and outs of police work, it’s also to show him right from wrong. Diaz has complications with East Barrio, and he’s a bit of a hothead. Can Harmon train him and keep him safe? (eight approximately 30-min. episodes)
—Glen Starkey
This article appears in Feb 6-16, 2025.