Following the daily activity and struggles that police officers of colors meet during doing their work, this television series follows, Rebel, a young courageous and smart detective, who solves the most challenging cases, unlike other detectives, whose life turns upside down, after the murder of her brother, as she left her work, in order to avenge his murder.
In execution, unfortunately, Rebel is less brilliant. The 120-minute pilot released to critics is bloated and sometimes melodramatic; most of it is spent waiting for the inevitable to happen - for the good stuff to start.
This isn't your sociology professor's crime drama. It's your grandfather's, and it's dirty, guilty fun - not exactly good, on the basis of its two-hour pilot, but definitely not boring.
In the two-hour opener - all that was made available for review - Singleton's first TV series has a nice retro vibe, but otherwise not much action, not much originality, and not much wallop.