SummarySyd Burnett (Gabrielle Union) is now a LAPD detective and has a new partner in Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba) in this follow-up series to the Bad Boys movies.
SummarySyd Burnett (Gabrielle Union) is now a LAPD detective and has a new partner in Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba) in this follow-up series to the Bad Boys movies.
Obviously, some will see the gender of the leads a momentous occasion worth trumpeting, and it is, but the show is packaged so nicely and the partners are so complementary that their sex becomes moot.
The bang-bang in L.A.'s Finest is long and loud—two car chases and two shootouts in the first 12 minutes—but it's too well-staged to complain about. And the lurid back stories of the detectives—even their secrets have secrets—keep things interesting even in the infrequent moments when nobody is being tortured or killed.
It’s a pretty light-hearted action-drama, the kind of show where Syd and Nancy banter their way through a bullet-riddled convenience store hold-up/hostage crisis.
Everyone can find another show exactly like this one on Fox or other broadcast networks, USA or other cable outlets, and even streaming services. They don’t need Spectrum for this kind of show, and this specific show doesn’t do much to make it feel needed at all.
Whatever L.A.'s Finest is, it isn't bad on an outlier level. It's as good as much of what counted as broadcast television dramas this past season. This is not in any way intended as a compliment, just my acknowledgement that as thoroughly mediocre as it is, L.A.'s Finest feels like the sort of show that, in a different era, easily could have attracted a healthy audience on broadcast.
I didn't like the series at first but kept watching because my husband enjoys it. It's really grown on me. The acting is well done and the plots are pretty good. You definitely need more than 1-2 episodes to give it a fair chance. It's not some Charlie's Angels reboot.
This is an awful attempt by spectrum to produce a series. The acting is aweful , the story line us a joke, the actor development was down by someone who has no clue on about a detective series or cops in general. I tortured myself through about 20 minutes and then shut it down. What a shame and a waste