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Fox's new series "Rosewood" is the TV equivalent of empty calories — it looks delicious, but there's nothing there.
Morris Chestnut stars as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr., a private pathologist in Miami. He's a good guy — and a really smart guy — who wants to help solve crimes, so he teams up with shockingly dim Miami PD detective Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz), a character who is sort of insulting to women. And cops. And women cops.
The mystery is the premiere feels like umpteen other cases we've seen on umpteen other shows. "Rosewood" feels old even though it's new, and that's not a good thing.
And when we learn that Rosewood has some serious health issues, it's decidedly at odds with the otherwise sunny outlook of this series. It's like the pieces just don't fit together.
"Rosewood" isn't awful. But both Chestnut and the viewers deserve much better.