Season 1 – L.A.'s Finest

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Max W @MaxthorWoo Dec 15 Rather than continuing the style of its original series Bad Boys, L.A.'s Finest presents itself as a police procedural soap opera, offering pleasant surprises through its in-depth exploration of character relationships and steady narrative approach. See more ERIKA G 10/15/2024 BEST LOCATION EVER!!! SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO ARE MY FAVOURITE CITY IN THE WORLD EVER!!! WONDERFUL AND BEST WEATHER EVER!! UNIQUE PLACE IN THE WORLD!!! See more Jacob M 12/09/2022 Bad acting, bad story, can't decide whether it's a comedy or a drama. See more David d 10/18/2022 I don't get why the critics are so negative, or why some comments are made by viewers that ‘real police would never behave like this'. Of course the latter is right, but then you're missing the point that you should not take this series too seriously !! This is not a ‘police procedural'. It's a buddy movie that contains both comical and dramatic elements. Plus a lot of inclusiveness: in K(orea) town, Hispanics and Whites live happely with the Asians, Gabrielles character Sydney is bi-sexual, one set of criminals is a gay couple, etc… Also, nobody is black or white, figuratively speaking: Nancy and Sydney have done dark things, even Patrick is flawed, everybody makes mistakes… the characters become well developed, not superficial as in many other series like CSI or Special Victims Unit etc where through time they stay as flat as cardboard ! I would have given 5 stars but for the negative points that have been already mentioned: it looks like the girls are nearly indestructible; they are bantering when they should be paying attention to criminals, they get emotional at times and beat a suspect, etc. but as I said, take it as the fiction that it is and as such it is very well made. Also, the near indestructibility of the girls is being offset by the episodes where Baines is shot in the ass, where Ben Walker is captured and tortured and Walker and Baines being ambushed during prisoner transport. A bit displeasing to me was that through the series, what started lightly became darker and more dramatic, and through series 2 there were too many over-the-top gunfights and martial arts, like the scriptwriters ran out of other ideas. Great choreography on the unarmed fights though. And kudos for the Ben Walker character, my favorite for smartness and realism - as in being a real believeable person. A bit less for Ben Baines, that character is almost a typecast: do black man have to behave always in over the top fashion ? Not like most black people I know… luckily there is Ernie Hudson to offset thàt. Finally, one magazine suggested the series was scrapped because of Black Lives Matter protests…. in my humble opinion, if that is so thenneralyball police series could be scrapped, and most before this one ! You cannot compare the police brutality in real life to a fictional show. See more 04/03/2022 Amazing show!!!!! Need a season 3 See more 03/17/2022 So sad that the series was better when the two ladies were NOT on screen. See more Read all reviews

L.A.'s Finest — Season 1

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