Chicago PD, the third series in the franchise created by Dick Wolf, returned this year for a fourth season. The American channel NBC has just broadcast the last two episodes of the year 2016, before the break for the end of the year holidays. The opportunity for us to make a small assessment of these eight episodes already broadcast.
Chicago PD is not just another detective series in the audiovisual landscape. It offers us a beautiful gallery of characters, whom we learn to love or hate. Above all, it offers us emotion. Through his stories of murder, drug trafficking or violence, it is above all the character of the characters, their feelings that we discover.
The series has been able to completely detach itself from its big sister Chicago Fire or even its little sister Chicago Med, even if it is nice to see that the writers do not forget where it comes from. Thus, we attend in the background many appearances, such as Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss), Dr. Charles (Oliver Platt) or Chief Boden (Eamonn Walker), the opportunity to meet old friends, for those who follow all the series of the franchise.
Hank Voight (Jason Beghe), hero of the series and head of the Intelligence Service, finds himself slightly sidelined following the first season, which leaves room to develop the other characters. Thus, between the relationship between detective Alvin Olinsky (Elias Koteas) and a potential murderer (brilliantly played by Billy Burke), the violent assault suffered by Trudy Platt (Amy Morton), or Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) and his relationship with Mouse (Samuel Hunt), everything is done so that the viewer immerses himself in the heart of his characters.
The last two episodes also focus on the departure of Antonio Dawson 's character (Jon Seda). Rest assured, he does not go very far, he joins the Chicago prosecutor's office as an investigator. A clever way to launch the new series of the franchise, Chicago Justice, in early 2017. It's just a shame that this departure falls a little like a hair on the soup, because apart from a beginning of romance with paramedic Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer), nothing suggested a departure. The need to be close to his children, an absent ex-wife and voila! Even if the series loses one of its characters, we know for a fact that we will see him again.
If we have to remember anything from these episodes, it is the writing of the characters. Whether on the good side or the bad, no one is forgotten. The villains are hollowed out, as are the supporting roles, like Julie Tay (Li Jun Li), Burgess ' new partner at the beginning of the season, to the good Mouse and his story of returning to the army.
The departure of Jon Seda leaves a free place in the Intelligence unit, and the last minutes of the eighth episode make us think that yes, finally, Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) will join them. Since the time we waited for her to abandon the uniform for the real field!
A track is also launched concerning the return of the father of Erin Lindsay (Sophia Bush), who will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of the rest of the season next year.
With its share of action, moments of joy, humor and emotion, these eight episodes of the fourth season of Chicago PD make us think that it can go even further. It is hoped that Antonio 's departure will allow the introduction of a replacement to the height and a renewal of the intrigues. Special mention to episode 8 and his cop killer. The tribute scene is splendid and clearly shows us what the series wants to highlight: human beings.
