Rogue (TV series)

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Rogue
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Genre
Created byMatthew Parkhill
Starring Thandiwe Newton
Sarah Jeffery
Kavan Smith
Ian Tracey
Marton Csokas
Joshua Sasse
Matthew Beard
Leah Gibson
Ian Hart
Jarod Joseph
Claudia Ferri
Cole Hauser
Andrea Roth
Clare Higgins
Alec Newman
Brendan Fletcher
Cindy Sampson
Sarah Carter
Derek Luke
Bianca Lawson
Michael Murphy
Richard Schiff
Ashley Greene
Sergio Di Zio
Meaghan Rath
Neal McDonough
Kristin Lehman
Opening theme"Too Tough to Die" by Martina Topley-Bird (season 1)
"Sorrowing Man" by City and Colour (season 2)
"Top Shelf Drug" by Ryan Bingham (season 3)
ComposerJeff Toyne
Country of origin
  • Canada
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes50 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Production location Vancouver, British Columbia
Production companies
Original release
Network
ReleaseApril 3, 2013 (2013-04-03) 
May 24, 2017 (2017-05-24)

Rogue is a police drama television series created by Matthew Parkhill and starring Thandiwe Newton. The series is a Canadian-British-American co-production, which was co-commissioned by DirecTV's Audience network and the Canadian premium services The Movie Network and Movie Central. [1] The series aired from April 3, 2013 to May 24, 2017. A total of 50 episodes were produced.

Contents

The series is set in Northern California, but it was filmed in Vancouver.

Premise

Grace Travis begins as a San Jose police officer working undercover in Oakland to bring down Jimmy Laszlo's criminal enterprise. After Grace's son is murdered, she and Jimmy discover they have a common purpose.

In the second season, Grace takes a new job as a handler for an FBI task force investigating corporate espionage in San Francisco. When a female undercover operative goes missing, Grace is forced undercover where she meets Ethan, a charming and enigmatic security consultant who might be responsible for the disappearance, or even death, of the operative.

In the third season, Grace is convinced that Ethan is key to her survival and goes to Chicago. There, Ethan infiltrates the firm of notorious attorney and power broker Marty Stein, whose dealings are shown to extend into one of Chicago's most feared gangs. Meanwhile, Ethan meets Marlon Dinard, a respectable, high-end store owner, who also seems to have more going on than meets the eye. Ethan tracks him and his half-sister Talia. When a reporter who nearly discovers the depths of Marty's empire winds up dead, federal agent Harper Deakins investigates his death. Grace and Ethan work together to bring down those who murdered her son and have Ethan under their thumb. A powerful conspiracy that connects the white-collar boardrooms to the gangs of Chicago is ultimately revealed.

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
1 10April 3, 2013 (2013-04-03)May 29, 2013 (2013-05-29)
2 10May 28, 2014 (2014-05-28)July 30, 2014 (2014-07-30)
3 2010June 24, 2015 (2015-06-24)August 26, 2015 (2015-08-26)
10March 23, 2016 (2016-03-23)May 25, 2016 (2016-05-25)
4 10March 22, 2017 (2017-03-22)May 24, 2017 (2017-05-24)

Cast and characters

Main

Recurring

Production

The series' ten-episode second season aired from May 28 through July 30, 2014. [2] [3] On August 12, 2014, DirecTV renewed the series for 20 additional episodes. [4] On August 1, 2016 Rogue was renewed for a fourth and final season by Audience, which premiered March 22, 2017. [5]

Thandie Newton discussed her traumatic experiences with Rogue in Vulture in 2020; she was upset by being the token Black person for a show set in Oakland, California, was forced into a topless scene, and wasn't released from her second-season contract. When Newton declined to do the nude scene, she stated that Matthew Parkhill, the showrunner and executive producer, asked her scene partner to pull down her top forcibly without consent. Newton was written off the show in the third season, with her character's body in a "Westworld Garbage Disposal" container, a nod to her next show, Westworld'. [6]

Reception

Rogue received mixed reviews. Metacritic gave the first season a "mixed or average" score of 47 out of 100, based on 14 critics. [7] On Rotten Tomatoes, it held a 38-percent rating with an average rating of 4.9 out of 10, based on eight reviews. [8]

Broadcast

In the United States, the show aired on Audience from April 3, 2013 to May 24, 2017. In Canada, it aired on The Movie Network and Movie Central [9] and on Super Écran, [10] on Investigation and on Series+ in French-speaking Canada. [11]

The series was then sold to many other broadcasters. In Australia, the series premiered on 3 August 2015 on SoHo, [12] while in Bulgaria it premiered on 11 April 2017 on VIVACOM Arena, VIVACOM's own 24/7 movie channel. [13] The show also aired on Filmbox in Hungary and on Fox Crime in Asia. Episodes were also dubbed in Poland, Czech and Latin America. It was dubbed into Germany somewhere in 2015.

Home media and streaming

In the United States and Canada, Entertainment One released the first season on a four-disc DVD set on March 11, 2014, containing all 10 episodes of the first season, and also includes a Script to Screen: Behind-the-Scenes Featurette and the webisodes of Rogue Files: Reparation, which is not shown on television. On the Canadian release of the DVD, it also has a French audio track that was seen on Super Écran. The second season was released on DVD on May 19, 2015, also in a four-disc set. All four seasons of the series was surprisingly released on Blu-ray in Germany.

In the United States, the episodes of the series were previously made available for free on Tubi from 2023 to 2024. Currently, the series is available on FreeTV in the United States, which also includes a Spanish audio track. Some episodes of the series are available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Freevee and The Roku Channel. In the United Kingdom, it is available on Pluto TV.

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