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Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discussion

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Law & Order: Los Angeles is a crime procedural that is set in the elite Robbery Homicide Division of the LAPD and the courts of Los Angeles County. The detectives and attorneys work to solve and prosecute cases that cover the L.A. Basin, which involve not only the expected celebrities, but many crimes that do not receive news coverage.

At Robbery Homicide Division, Detective Rex Winters (Skeet Ulrich) is an ex-Marine who has a very black-and-white view of the world and went through the Rodney King riot as a rookie police officer. He is married to his former partner, Lori. Detective Tomas "T.J." Jaruszalski, the son of an Oscar-winning cinematographer, thinks being a cop is the most fun anyone can have, like being front row at the circus everyday. The division is commanded by their lieutenant (Rachel Ticotin).

The District Attorney's office is represented by Deputy District Attorney Ricardo Morales (Alfred Molina), whose father was a groundskeeper at a local country club and considers this job the first step to greater things. He is a sarcastic realist who has no trouble sacrificing theory for a down-and-dirty fight for justice. Even so, he is still skilled at politics. His assistant, Deputy DA Evelyn Price (Regina Hall), is the product of an upper-middle-class upbringing in Baldwin Hills. Although she acknowledges the problems in the LAPD, she still prefers order over chaos. Morales' counterpart in more ways than one is Deputy District Attorney Jonah "Joe" Dekker (Terrence Howard). Dekker is considered to be a creative legal thinker and does not believe his position as a DDA is a permanent career choice. Dekker's assistant is Deputy DA Lauren Stanton (Megan Boone), whose privileged childhood accounts for her right-of-center politics. The office is overseen by the Los Angeles District Attorney (Peter Coyote).

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Detectives Winters and Jaruszalski track the activities of a tech-savvy group of teenagers who they suspect have escalated from burglary of the rich and famous to murder.

Skeet Ulrich will be appearing on the SVU episode before this, FYI.

I'm not gonna make this a regular thread, so if this show is a hit here, someone else might want to do the weekly threads.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

Definitely looking forward to this ... and I'm hoping tomorrow I'll be able to tell you why. :cool:
 
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Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

I'm not in love with this so far, though the detectives are alright.

It seems like the shooting style of the old Law & Order is gone and replaced by the newer, less interesting style of a CSI. Also early on, I'm getting a Criminal Intent vibe to a lesser degree, like seeing them break into a house.

Unfortunately, unless you have interesting guest stars or a detective like a D'Onofrio, Orbach, or Goldblum to carry that kind of show, it's not very good.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

WHOA! DOUBLEOH!!!!!! Was that you....sitting at a table in the restaurant where the cops interviewed the young actor (who said he'd go back with Chelsea in a minute?)......??????????
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

Is it sad that Skeet Ulrich has more emotion as an animated cartoon then in real life?

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His partner is more interesting.

Big props to Alfred Molina. I had never seen him before, but he reminded me of a more subdued Sam Waterston.

It wasn't a bad opening, but it did seem like they got everything on a platter.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

Probably won't watch this regularly. I kinda like Corey Stoll (the bald cop Jaruszalski), but I find Skeet Ulrich (Det. Winters) underwhelming. I was mainly interested for Alfred Molina, but I'd forgotten how completely L&O had abandoned any semblance of valid courtroom procedure; this episode had many nonsensical cliches, lawyers doing things during witness examination that would be inadmissible in reality, like giving arguments and making declarative statements rather than asking questions. Plus the thing where Oded Fehr revealed new information that none of the lawyers had known. That's the sort of thing that would come out during trial prep.

Also, I don't think I find the LA setting as appealing as New York.

Basically, the main appeal of this episode for me was getting to see Danielle Panabaker, whom I haven't seen since Sky High. She's real purty. But obviously she won't be around in subsequent episodes.

I'm surprised how little use the episode made of Rachel Ticotin as the detectives' captain. She had maybe two lines and one brief close-up. I wouldn't even have known who she was if I hadn't been watching for her. Odd thing to do in a pilot episode.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

I forgot it was on, but from the ads it doesn't look like a L&O to me, so I probably didn't miss much.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

Yeoman Randi said:
WHOA! DOUBLEOH!!!!!! Was that you....sitting at a table in the restaurant where the cops interviewed the young actor (who said he'd go back with Chelsea in a minute?)......??????????
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Yep, that was me. You can also see us, I think, in a later shot in the background right before the detectives leave that location. (Red Rock on Sunset).
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

Very boring. That Emmy worthy SVU before didn't help.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

Doubleoh!!!!! congratulations!!!!! That was so exciting!!!!!!!! OMG!!!! :bolian::bolian::bolian::bolian::bolian::)
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

Well, except for the total excitement of seeing DOUBLEOH (i literally jumped out of my chair), i thought it was below average. What a bummer, i was really hoping i would like it.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

It was okay. I think I'll stick with it for now - it *is* L&O, after all. ;)

At least they had the text captions and the doink-doink, plus something vaguely resembling the theme. :D

Congrats, 005! :techman: Were you 1) sitting right next to the sound guy with the microphone, or 2) the one sitting at the table when the assistant comes in and says "KK, you got visitors"?

Christopher said:
I'm surprised how little use the episode made of Rachel Ticotin as the detectives' captain.
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That was Wanda De Jesus.
 
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Mr. Laser Beam said:
That was Wanda De Jesus.
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Nay. De Jesus was fired only a few weeks after filming began and Ticotin was hired to replace her. De Jesus' scenes in the first two episodes were re-shot with Ticotin.

As for the show itself, I was very, very underwhelmed. It felt like Criminal Intent with different lighting, and the cast didn't do much for me at all. I'll watch the next two or three episodes, but so far, I'm not impressed.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

Yeah, re-watching the episode, it was indeed De Jesus. Ticotin only joined the cast about a week and a half ago, and while it was reported that all of De Jesus' scenes were being re-shot, there may not have been enough time to do so on "Hollywood" for its premiere.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

That actually was Wanda de Jesus. Ticotin filmed scenes for next week's episode.

Ahh... Ticotin played Ana-Lucia's mother/captain on Lost in a couple of episodes. She's a great actress.

And, there was absolutely no doink doink.
 
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Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

Starbreaker said:
Very boring. That Emmy worthy SVU before didn't help.
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I think Det Winters brought it on SVU. He was the opposite of the normal TV cop worried only about his stats, his collar and his prosecution that McCoy and others always went for. I didn't make it through LA, Lindsey Paris Hilton have been in the news too much for me to care about their ripped from the headlines pilot episode.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

Anyone who missed the pilot can see it on Hulu. It's also free on iTunes right now.
 
Re: Law & Order: Los Angeles: "Hollywood" - Sept. 29 - Grading/Discuss

It's also up on NBC.com until November 11.
 
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