I'm a longtime L&W fan. The series has taken two of my favorite series: police procedurals and courtroom dramas, and combined them like mixing peanut butter and chocolate...and it's just as tasty as it sounds. I was rather put off when I heard L&W was canceled a few months ago...but to be fair the last episode was surreal in a good way. And my spirits were picked up when an LA spinoff was announced.
Let me be straight with you: I'm a self-loathing So-Cal native. Its just the constant liberal self-righteousness, minority patronizing, and air of unwarranted self-importance disgusts me. Nothing makes me angrier than hypocrisy and nothing annoys me more than douchebaggery, and California pretty much ranks #1. Believe me...I know.
To see, however, the conversion of a twenty-year crime drama series on the west coast and see it work was nothing short of amazing. The first episode opens with a pair of starlets clubbing in an unnamed club in Hollywood, then turns south with a ring of young jewel thieves all being orchestrated by a conniving stage mom using her starlet daughter to distract marks while bonking the point man. Consummate So-Cal at its finest. Nice.
I love it how the perps have adapted to the setting: L&W usually featured mobsters and the like while LOLA so far is featuring the so-called cultural elite in So-Cal: douchebag B,C, and Z list "actors" of the teen and reality variety. Overall its rather surreal to see something like this in my own back yard, but I for one welcome our new visitors, and hope that this series takes off.
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