By Dean Robbins

The heroes of ‘Rookie Blue’ break hearts and heads

“Rookie Blue” has made the summer TV season a lot more fun during the last couple of years. It’s an absorbing cop show about young officers dealing with the complexities of their careers while looking stunning in those cute, blue uniforms.

In the third season premiere (Thursday, 9 p.m., ABC), intense Andy McNally (Missy Peregrym) returns to the force after a three-month suspension. Now, she’s ecstatic to be back in action. “This is the first day of the rest of my life!” she exclaims.

And what a day it is, as a drunk driver (William Shatner) causes a pile-up while searching for his kidnapped granddaughter.

“Rookie Blue” isn’t the only show about cops who fall in love with each other while chasing the bad guys, but it’s one of the few that work. Watching the season premiere makes this seem like the first day of the rest of my summer.

Girls

Sunday, 9:30 p.m. (HBO)

Everybody has hyped this new series to the max, but, dammit, I’m going to keep hyping it as long as it stays good. In this week’s episode, our four post-collegiate heroines go to an intimidating party in a New York City warehouse.

Each has a disturbing encounter with a lover, an ex-lover or a potential future lover. Each gets physically hurt, hurts someone else or lays the groundwork for someone to be hurt.

In the richest subplot, Hannah (creator-director-writer Lena Dunham) encounters her not-quite-boyfriend Adam, who emerges as more human than she thought he was. This development leads to a happy ending, or at least an ambiguously happy one. And something tells me ambiguous happiness is the best we can expect in the “Girls” universe. CV