Line #71 Series/Rosewood2015


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:The Beethoven of private pathologists, by his own admission.]]
3	->''...forensic pathology is not just about how a victim died...It's also about how they lived.''
4	-->''' - Dr. Beaumont Darius Rosewood Jr.'''
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6	Set in Miami, Florida, ''Rosewood'' is a combination ForensicDrama and PoliceProcedural which [[FemaleFlatfootAndSnarkyGuy pairs]] Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. (Creator/MorrisChestnut), affectionately known as "Rosie," a high-spirited [[TheCoroner pathologist]] in private practice, with cynical, recently widowed Detective Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz) of the [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed East Miami]] Police Department. Working with Rosie at his "[[HomeBase Magic City Lab]]" are his mother, Donna (Creator/LorraineToussaint), sister Pippy (Creator/GabrielleDennis), Pippy's fiancee "TMI" (Creator/AnnaKonkle), and [[NoSocialSkills socially inept]] technician Mitchie Mendelson (Sam Hutchinson). Villa's superior in Season 1 is Captain Ira Hornstock (Domenick Lombardozzi); at the start of season 2, Hornstock is demoted to detective and Ryan Slade (Creator/EddieCibrian) is the new captain.
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8	The show was [[ShortRunner cancelled after two seasons]] in May of 2017.
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11	!!This show features examples of:
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13	%%* TheAtoner: Detective (formerly Captain) Ira Hornstock.
14	%%* AutopsySnackTime
15	* BodyOfTheWeek: As a crime series focused on a private pathologist, episodes will usually be centered around the body of a murder victim.
16	* CharacterDevelopment:
17	** Villa gradually becomes less of a cynic, opening up and getting closer to the people around her.
18	** Over the course of Season 2, Slade and Hornstock come to respect each other.
19	* ColorWash: The show has a very bright, warm-toned color palette, as seen in the page illustration--except in flashbacks, which tend to be cool-toned and DeliberatelyMonochrome
20	* ConArtist: Tawnya, Rosie's love interest for much of Season 2, and her "[[TheFakeCutie 14-year old daughter]]" Kayla.
21	** After they clean out Rosie's bank accounts, he spends a couple of episodes [[DrowningMySorrows on a drinking binge]].
22	* CoolCar: Rosie's bright yellow GTO convertible.
23	* CopAndScientist: Villa and Rosie, though Rosie's eagerness for doing field work with Villa instead of staying at his lab causes her no end of headaches.
24	* {{Crossover}}: With ''Series/{{Bones}}'' in Episode 9 of Season 2. Daisy Wick was TMI's college roommate and assisted on the case of the week.
25	* DarkAndTroubledPast:
26	** Rosie's life has been a continuous battle with his health issues.
27	** Villa's father abandoned her and her mother when she was quite young. Later in life, her husband died suddenly of a freak pulmonary embolism [[spoiler:and later turned out to have been murdered]].
28	** Hornstock has had multiple failed marriages and is estranged from his siblings.
29	** Slade grew up in an orphanage, and went through some rough experiences as an undercover agent investigating human trafficking.
30	** TMI spent much of her early life as a closeted lesbian. When she came out, her parents more or less cut her out of their life.
31	** Even Pippy had some of this, having spent some time as a runaway when she was coming to terms with her sexuality due to [[spoiler:her mother not being supportive of it at first (unlike her father and Rosie)]].
32	** Mitchie lost his parents in a car accident at a young age, which engendered in him a great interest in human anatomy.
33	* DeadpanSnarker: Rosie, Villa, Pippy, TMI, Mitchie... well, pretty much every one of the main characters. East Miami is practically a WorldOfSnark.
34	** SnarkToSnarkCombat: Lots, especially between Rosie and Villa.
35	* FairCop: Villa is a cop, but the series likes to show off how attractive she is too sometimes.
36	* FemaleFlatfootAndSnarkyGuy: inverted, in that Villa is the snarkier of the two
37	* HidingTheHandicap: Rosie has had at least two open heart surgeries, and as of the middle of season 2 is in need of a kidney transplant, but you'd never know it by the way he acts or how vigorously he works out.
38	-->''The human heart... best built machine not built by man. It's a beautiful thing, even when it's sick, flawed, like mine. I love this life, every single moment. But my challenge is to stay on this earth for as long as I can and soak it up. I test this machine of mine every chance I get, push it to its absolute limits. That's why I run.''
39	%%* HomeBase: "Magic City Lab."
40	* HypercompetentSidekick: Naomi, the NotQuiteDead and very GenreSavvy documentary filmmaker in "Puffer Fish & Personal History."
41	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode except for the pilot has an AlliterativeTitle in TheNounAndTheNoun format. The first noun usually references some element of forensic evidence that is significant to the BodyOfTheWeek. Examples: "Mummies and Meltdowns" "Keratin & Kissyface", "Negative Autopsies and New Partners".
42	* IncomingHam: Rosie and Villa often do this when surprising a suspect they're about to take down.
43	* InsufferableGenius: not insufferable, really, but Rosie does have an awfully high opinion of himself.
44	-->'''Rosie:''' I'm Dr. Beaumont Rosewood. Some call me the Beethoven of private pathologists.
45	-->'''Villa:''' No one calls you that.
46	* InterruptedIntimacy: Rosie comes looking for TMI. . . at Pippy's apartment. . . unannounced . . . during late evening hours . . . to discuss lab business.
47	-->'''TMI:''' I'm feeling ''[chuckles]'' [[LampshadeHanging very awkward and vulnerable right now]].
48	%%* TheLabRat: Pippy, TMI, and Mitchie.
49	* LargeHam: Rosie: "Who's the man? Rhetorical question--we all know it's me."
50	** Captain Slade as well: "Teamwork makes the dream work!"
51	* LipstickLesbian: Pippy and TMI are both gay women and usually dress very femininely with dresses and nice makeup.
52	* MamaBear[=/=]TeamMom: Donna
53	* TheNicknamer: When Villa and Rosie enlist the help of some medical students to reinvestigate a cold case, they give them all nicknames on first sight. We never do learn their real names.
54	* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: there is no "East Miami." The only thing east of Miami is the Atlantic Ocean.
55	%% * NoSocialSkills: Mitchie
56	* ThePollyanna: Rosie, who Villa often accuses of "seeing the world through Rosie-colored glasses."
57	* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Season 2's "Tree Toxins & Three Stories" seems to have been meant as a backdoor pilot for a spinoff series about an eclectic group of pathology students (a disgraced former influencer, a plastic surgery student taking it as an elective, an [[TheSpock intelligent but socially inept guy]], etc.) who assist with [[spoiler:the case of the girls Gerald is suspected of murdering]] and would probably have done something similar if it went to series. Rosie mentions knowing their professor, who is absent in the episode and presumably hadn't been cast. No additional series came of this episode.
58	* ThePowerOfFriendship: A recurring theme in the interactions between the main characters.
59	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Rosie is this in the lab, Captain Ryan Slade at the precinct.
60	* TheRival:
61	** Slade is this with respect to Hornstock when he becomes precinct captain after Hornstock's demotion.
62	** Rosie's rival is his health.
63	* RuleOfCool: Invoked InUniverse when Villa confiscates a gym bag full of money from a suspect and slashes it open, causing the cash to fall out.
64	-->'''Rosie:''' Could have used the zipper.
65	-->'''Villa:''' The knife was way cooler.
66	* SharpDressedMan: Rosie, whose sartorial splendor contrasts with Villa's UnkemptBeauty.
67	* SherlockScan: Both Rosie and Villa are pretty good at picking up on small details
68	* ShowWithinAShow: "White Matter and ''The Ways Back.''" is centered around a former child star who played the protagonist in a beloved 1990s {{Sitcom}}. Mitchie even sings a snippet of the ThemeTune:
69	-->''When you're feeling lost and all alone/[[ThePowerOfFriendship Hold on to your friends, and you'll be home]]/The ones who have been there know it's a fact/The only way forward is to find.....''The Ways Back.
70	* TheSummation: OnceAnEpisode, usually delivered by Rosie.
71	* UnresolvedSexualTension: present between Rosie and Villa from the start, even though both had other romantic involvements over the course of the series. In the final episode of Season 2, Villa announced that she was leaving Miami and asked Rosie (whose feelings for Villa were coming to the surface) to give her a reason to stay, though it's ultimately [[LeftHanging never shown]] how their relationship pans out due the show's cancellation.
72	* WarmPlaceWarmLighting: The series takes place in Miami, a city with a very warm climate. The second season was shot through a warm yellow filter.

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