We owe him the best detective series on the small screen, and he’s back with a new 4-hour thriller!

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Former training officer Tracy Harmon and recruit Alex Diaz deal with the loss of another officer and the consequences of police politics in the department and on the streets of Long Beach.

What you need to know

Prime Video is starting 2025 slowly but surely with The Gardener , an action comedy with Jean-Claude Van Damme and On Call out this week. This detective series, which may appeal to those who ate and worshiped Cross, is the kind of program that we watch every night before going to bed.

But the main feature of its interest is that it was produced by the king of the Hollywood genre: Dick Wolf. This famous producer has many successful franchises in American television, in the police, legal or medical fields: New York Special Unit, Chicago, FBI…

Announced for 2021, On Call is his first project for the streaming platform. Perhaps this is the reason why its format is unusual: only 8 episodes of 24 minutes each.

In other words, if you have 4 hours to spare, you can Binger We will call you in one day. And with such an action, we expect a lot of tension and a good dose of adrenaline…

And to achieve this, the series uses several visual approaches: in some shots, the actors wear a camera (body camera), and sometimes it is the dash cam of their car that captures the scene. Or a simple phone. The way was as close to the action as possible…

This police show has other arguments. Pretty Little Liars fans will be delighted to see Troian Bellisario as the unforgettable Spencer Hastings on screen. The actor, now 39, completely switches register by stepping into the shoes of a demanding cop. Here she stars alongside Brandon Laracuente, seen in Good Doctor and 13 Reasons Why (Netflix).

On Call plays the nostalgia card all the way, also featuring actors Eric LaSalle (ER) and Lori Loughlin (Full House). They play a sergeant and a lieutenant, respectively, in the Long Beach Police Department (south of Los Angeles).

Great people to find on Prime Video today.