Training Day (2017): Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

CBS | Season Premiere Date: February 2, 2017

Summary: Set 15 years after the 2001 film of the same name, Los Angeles Detective Frank Rourke (Bill Paxton) is assigned to a new trainee named Kyle Craig (Justin Cornwell).

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E13. Elegy Part 2
Air Date: May 20, 2017
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S1:E12. Elegy
Air Date: May 13, 2017
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S1:E11. Tunnel Vision
Air Date: May 6, 2017

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Terry Terrones

Jan 31, 2017

Part buddy cop show, part drama, Training Day is a fun ride, even though it is a departure from its source material. The power of Bill Paxton refuses to be denied. This is a series worth checking out. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Travers

Feb 2, 2017

Viewers could do worse than tuning in every week to see Frank troll department heads about a lack of donuts in staff meetings, but Training Day doesn’t show enough in three episodes to merit its origins. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Feb 1, 2017

The question with any movie turned into a series is whether the concept has the legs to last on an episodic basis. Evaluating the first few patrols, that's the key test that Training Day doesn't pass. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Jan 27, 2017

When it isn't irritatingly imitative, [it's] hopelessly stupid. Read full review

Lorraine Ali

Feb 2, 2017

Without the necessary amounts of terror and depravity--remember how terrified Ethan Hawke’s Jake Hoyt was of Washington’s sociopathic Harris?--all that’s left is a good actor (Paxton) trying to create something meaningful out of the usual cop show cliches. Read full review

Robert Bianco

Feb 1, 2017

It doesn’t work. Read full review

Sonia Saraiya

Jan 30, 2017

One of the more aggressively terrible debuts of the fall. Read full review

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Hank2016

Feb 14, 2017

This is a very good show needs be show more love it so much a way I say watch it and give it a chance u might just like it show from what I saw good paced and good action

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oufilmbuff

Mar 7, 2017

Don't Believe these crappy reviews. Paxton (RIP) was knocking it out of the park. It is a fun interesting show. Now with Paxton passing.. I'm afraid it will be gone. Was a great show so far.

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Jim222001

Mar 12, 2017

Sucks that Bill Paxton died. He made this unnecessary show better than it had a right to be. He owned his character and made Training Day watchable. I just hope they don't try to replace him.
No Paxton, no show. He's why I even watched. Despite the name Training Day holding back some peopleSucks that Bill Paxton died. He made this unnecessary show better than it had a right to be. He owned his character and made Training Day watchable. I just hope they don't try to replace him.
No Paxton, no show. He's why I even watched. Despite the name Training Day holding back some people from checking it out. This isn't a bad show. The action is fine and I love the choice of music in every episode. Maybe if they didn't call it Training Day, it would have been better received.… Expand

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yosa1

Feb 2, 2017

Forget the movie this is named after, its a gimmick at best. This series explores more of what I believe the movie was driving to do; a cop that has decided to behave how circumstance has thrown him and regardless, has stayed as a cop.

There was some violence, some contrived scenes, andForget the movie this is named after, its a gimmick at best. This series explores more of what I believe the movie was driving to do; a cop that has decided to behave how circumstance has thrown him and regardless, has stayed as a cop.

There was some violence, some contrived scenes, and the episode itself was designed around a single story hook.

I can say, there is no way an episode does a series make; the acting was good, the direction is misguided but the development quality is apparent, its well done for being a single episode, and I say this in the face of being a pessimist; it holds promise if the development keeps this level engagement in the series.… Expand

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JorgeLestre

Feb 3, 2017

This is absolutely one of the worst TV series I have ever seen. Not only does it use a cult movie's name, it also manages to be completely out of focus. And also, I would seriously look into that baboon's appearance, it seems obvious it is an outrageous case of animal exploitation.

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gilga73

Feb 11, 2017

It started as an insult to whites, then blacks and continued as an insult to latinos...but most of all it is a slap in the face on human inteligence.
Stealing the name of a cult movie such as "Training Day" for this huge pile of sh*t is a cinematic sacrilege.

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Ripandread

Feb 13, 2017

What we have here is yet another attempt by a TV network to capitalize on a popular movie but the results ends up falling flat on the ground. One cannot be critical of the actors and writers without casting blame on the network executives who gave the go-ahead for this show to be telecast inWhat we have here is yet another attempt by a TV network to capitalize on a popular movie but the results ends up falling flat on the ground. One cannot be critical of the actors and writers without casting blame on the network executives who gave the go-ahead for this show to be telecast in the first place.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

38
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 2, 2017
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  S1:E13. Elegy Part 2
  Air Date: May 20, 2017
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  S1:E12. Elegy
  Air Date: May 13, 2017
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  S1:E11. Tunnel Vision
  Air Date: May 6, 2017
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  S1:E10. Sunset
  Air Date: April 29, 2017
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  S1:E9. Bad Day at Aqua Mesa
  Air Date: April 22, 2017
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  S1:E8. Blurred Lines
  Air Date: April 15, 2017
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  S1:E7. Quid Pro Quo
  Air Date: April 8, 2017
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  S1:E6. Faultlines
  Air Date: March 9, 2017
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  S1:E5. Wages of Sin
  Air Date: March 2, 2017
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  S1:E4. Code of Honor
  Air Date: February 23, 2017
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  S1:E3. Trigger Time
  Air Date: February 16, 2017
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  S1:E2. Tehrangeles
  Air Date: February 9, 2017
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  S1:E1. Apocalypse Now
  Air Date: February 2, 2017