Eddie Cibrian, Morris Chestnut and Jaina Lee Ortiz star in "Rosewood"

We're getting to that point in the year when many of our favorite shows are wrapping up for the summer. Some will be back in the fall, while others won't survive beyond the 2016-17 season. Accounts have differed as to the future of "Rosewood" -- some predict that the police procedural is not long for this world, while others suspect it may have some life left in it yet.

Fans of Morris Chestnut ("The Call," 2013), who plays the titular Dr. Beaumont Darius Rosewood Jr., are surely hoping that the latter is true. At any rate, before we can look ahead to a third season, we have to find out how the second one ends. Catch the season 2 finale of "Rosewood," airing Friday, April 28, on Fox.

Chestnut's character is Miami's top private pathologist, whose exceptional skills and powers of observation help the Miami PD crack its toughest cases. He's cool, charismatic and brilliant, with the kind of jovial cockiness you can pretty much expect from a cool, charismatic, brilliant doctor, who's also admirably buff.

Though at first glance, Rosewood (a.k.a. "Rosie" -- isn't that cute?) may appear to be the perfect male specimen, the giant scar that runs down his perfectly sculpted chest suggests that there's more to the good doctor than meets the eye. He suffers from a congenital heart defect, a bleeding brain and calcifying eardrums that will leave him deaf, if he lives that long. He had his first stroke at age 11, another at 21, and reckons he's got about a decade or so of life left in him. He therefore subscribes to the belief that life should be lived to the fullest, with not a moment wasted; it's also made him more attuned to death than most, which is part of why he's so good at his job.

We learn all this way back in the pilot, when Rosie is being sussed out by his new, no-nonsense colleague, Det. Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz, "Misfire," 2012). The two make a solid team, as Rosewood has insisted they would from the get-go, and the show's freshman season was rife with will-they-won't-they tension that was almost resolved in the season finale ... but, in the end, it was "they won't." Not yet, anyway.

As for the rest of the team, Rosewood's practice is a family affair. Award-winning actress Lorraine Toussaint ("Orange Is the New Black") plays Rosewood matriarch Donna, a source of love and support for her family. Rosewood's sister, Pippy (Gabrielle Dennis, "The Game"), is also a colleague and the "toxicology queen" of the lab. At the start of the series, she was engaged to the lab's DNA specialist, Tara Milly Izikoff, a.k.a. TMA (Anna Konkle, "Maron"). Earlier this season, Pippy left the lab to pursue a music career, but has since returned and is managing to work alongside her ex.

Gabrielle Dennis as seen in "Rosewood"

Eddie Cibrian ("Sunset Beach") joined the cast this season as Capt. Ryan Slade, the newest member of the East Miami Police force. A man with a murky past, he's managed to further complicate things between Rosie and Villa, and his methods have clashed with the ever-optimistic Rosewood on more than one occasion. Though Slade is a bit of a loose cannon and came onto the scene as a big question mark, this season has gradually unfolded more about him and his past.

Season 2 has also seen Rosie and Villa head out of Miami as they travel to New York to work on solving the murder of Villa's husband -- who, until last season, Villa believed had died from a pulmonary embolism. They also head to Cuba, where they get help with two mysterious cases from Dr. Daisy Wick (Carla Gallo, "Californication") in a "Bones" crossover episode. This season has seen cases involving everything from college frats and plastic surgery to treasure hunting and Santeria.

It sounds like there's a lot to keep "Rosewood" fans interested, but is it enough to get the show picked up for a third season? That remains to be seen. Ratings haven't been stellar, with the season 1 finale losing half its audience from the premiere. The numbers didn't fare too badly early in the second season, but they've dropped fairly steadily since, with the March 31 episode showing a loss of more than a million viewers from the season 2 premiere. The "Bones" crossover didn't generate the hoped-for boost in numbers, and the show's move from Thursday to the less desirable Friday night time-slot in the new year hasn't helped matters.

Nevertheless, shows with worse odds have lasted longer. "Rosewood" has a talented cast, with a lot of diversity both in front of the camera and in the writer's room -- that's something we don't get enough of. Catch the season 2 finale of "Rosewood," airing Friday, April 28, on Fox.