Amber

The 1969 book "On Death and Dying" by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross outlined five stages of grief... intended for those who ARE DYING and their families. It was never intended to be the be all and end all of grief or loss.

Everybody grieves differently and there is no "right" way to do so.

People beat themselves up over not getting to certain stages by certain times. Not everyone is even going to experience all of the stages much less in order.

Otherwise this is a good episode. I like the non-traditional filming, which I also enjoyed in the less-well-reviewed documentary episode a little while before this one.

Okay I understand some person(s) in Hollywood long ago convinced a few directors that camera shake would make the scenes more realistic, like a novice was doing the recording. So they have the hand held camera operator abnormally move the camera, or actually have some other person grab the camera and shake it. Just quit doing that.

The problem with this technique is it instantly takes me out of the action and makes me think about the camera and camera operator. It's distracting but not in the way you'd want it.

For me camera shake, artificially induced, has ruined too many movies and TV shows. I often can't sit through it and stop watching the movie or episode. Amber had a number of scenes where camera shake was introduced. It may have been to simulate video from a body cam but that was never part of the episode.

Otherwise this episode had some interesting dialog and action.

... on police work and civil right issues, even if the plot itself falls a little short in this episode. But it's good to see the series finally seems to find a way to show more points of view instead of blatantly trying to idealize the characters away from real world issues every cop as to deal with - especially if he or her *wants* to do right.

The conclusion of this episode is still sugarcoated, but the message is right: Don't treat each other as enemies, but as someone you have to work things out with. Meet halfway first, go the rest together.

To be honest. NOlan, Lucy, Grey, Tim, Nyla, Angela is really great characters, but this show doesnt earn the right to use them, to be honest. Sure its not a disaster this time. But its in sense back again to woke anti-police politics... again. DIdnt the show learn about bad writing from episode two till six? Obviously not.

But why I give this episode an ok grade is because this time around, they did at least try to explain why policing sometimes gets so wrong. Just like all people, police-officers are just that... People. They do make misstakes, but as the show says, majority of these people are good policeofficers and good persons.

So at least there was both sides this time around. The discussion was there, but not really, because it was rigged from getgoing.

In the last shift of West and Chen, they go to patrol with their T. O.s Lopez and Bradford respectively. Lopez Angela has many concerns with her pregnancy and decides to stay with West in his last rookie day while Chen wants to hear from Bradford that he will miss her. Nolan, who still have thirty days to conclude his training, goes with Harper and his Professor Fiona Ryan that is writing a book about the LAPD. Out of the blue, they receive an Amber Alert and need to look for the missing baby that will affect the racist professor.

"Amber" is another reasonable episode of "The Rookie". West and Lopez show a perfect chemistry, but Chen looks loke a silly person in her last shift. The racist Professor Ryan is the annoying part of the show with her stupid comments. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Alerta de Sequestro" ("Kidnapping Alert")