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I'm really liking Law and Order:UK. so far, my only complaints are tiny ones. 1. I think the law and Order franchise trappings are distracting and the show would be improved by dropping them. 2. Tonight's episode hadn't enough Freema Agyeman. (Seriously, I like watching the charming and lovely Ms. Agyman play intelligent and competent professional women).

* I keep thinking about why UK works and LA doesn't. The original franchises are very New York. The earlier ones are a topuch hokey in rerun, but the 21st century ones have a grittiness to them that makes them feel right. The UK version has a different flavour of gritty, but they are also working with an old grey city most of the time. The LA one is slick and generic, like the whole CSI franchise, which I find unwatchable, and NCIS, which I lost patience with due to the mysogyny. LALA isn't unwatchable, just boring, but I think it suffers from being too much like everyone else. I bet LA: Chicago or LA: Detroit would work better stylistically, and style matters here, I think.