“On Call” is a decent small-scale police procedural. But is it decent enough when it comes from the house of Dick Wolf?
The pedigreed eight-part show traded broadcast networks for Prime Video, where it will premiere Thursday. The novelty is that each episode is a bite-sized 30 minutes, with modest character arcs that extend over multiple episodes, and multiple seemingly random crime sequences that propel individual installments.
The result feels like “Cops” with a script. The ride-along series puts the audience largely behind the wheel with Traci Harmon (Troian Bellisario, a nepo baby, daughter of Donald P. who also fathered “NCIS,” “Magnum P.I.”