FK & _The Rookie: Feds_?

[brightknightie]

My best friend — who has seen only ~3 Forever Knight episodes ever, but who has let me prattle at her about the show for decades — tells me that The Rookie: Feds (TV, 2022), has what she suspects is a rich vein of FK tribute/parody.

Apparently, The Rookie: Feds is a US police procedural spun off from The Rookie with a similar "dramady" tone. It follows the oldest rookie ever to graduate from the FBI Academy, a woman character named Simone Clark.

Where FK comes in, my friend says, is with a regular male character, Brandon Acres, now an FBI agent, but whose first career was as an actor best known for playing a vampire cop on a TV show that, she thinks, sounds way too much like FK to be an accident. Wikipedia puts it like this: "Before joining the Bureau, he was an award-winning actor who starred on the popular young-adult television series Vampire Cop for six years." My friend says that the character's past work as an actor on that specific fictional show keeps coming up in present plots of The Rookie: Feds in various ways.

I have not seen any episodes of this series, myself; I can't validate any of this. The show could as easily be referencing Huff's "Blood" novels and their TV incarnation, or Angel, or all the assorted vampire shows, movies, and books of all kinds mixed together. But... gotta admit, "Vampire Cop" hits close to home. And the target audience for The Rookie: Feds is surely folks old enough to remember FK on the air.

Comments

[senmut]

IMDB confirms that Forever Knight most closely parallels the show the character was in.

[brightknightie]

Thank you for checking that! Neat. :-)

[pj1228]

That sounds like a fun show. I'll keep an eye out to catch an episode.

[brightknightie]

My best friend very much enjoys both The Rookie and The Rookie: Feds. I haven't gotten around to them only because there is so very much TV available these days.

[thefruitbat]

Thanks for sharing. Sounds like something I'll definitely watch. I love the "original" the Rookie, so I hope this can only be good. And with FK references - even better! :D

[brightknightie]

The Rookie: Feds apparently had a "backdoor pilot" of two episodes of the original The Rookie, which introduced the main character, before she moved into her own series. So if you're already watching The Rookie, you may already have met her. :-)

[thefruitbat]

Yes, I did and I really liked her character. Would have liked to see more of her, and now I can. :D Looks like it will be available here in 2 days, so I'll definitely give it a go.:)

[chelseagirl]

It would have been nice if FK had gotten six seasons!

[brightknightie]

Oh, my, yes! Mmmmmm, six seasons, all on CBS, with a normal timeslot and not part of the Crimetime After Primetime rotation... and Lacroix could stay dead until, say, the fourth season, if not forever, and the original actors leave only if and when they want to and with plenty of warning to write out their characters well... ;-)

My current hypothesis is that the fictional Vampire Cop show is probably a versatile mash-up of Angel (young adult, long running, successful, well-known) and Forever Knight (smart, award-winning, actually a cop-shop show), with the "Brandon Acres" character probably drawing mainly on David Boreanaz while the show itself draws mainly on FK.