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This article was published 25/04/2011 (5459 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It’s fitting for a show based in Los Angeles to undergo a major makeover, which is the case for Law & Order: LA.
The much-needed revamp debuted two weeks ago to little fanfare and even lower ratings. That’s a shame, because the “new” LOLA is a vast improvement.
Gone is Skeet Ulrich’s Det. Rex Winters, although he’s not the character I would have axed: Terrance Howard’s Deputy District Attorney Jonah Dekker would have been the better choice. Ulrich was strong in the role as the tough but sensitive detective but, according to the show’s producers, he just wasn’t the right fit for the show.
Joining Ulrich in the unemployment line are Megan Boone and Regina Hall, who alternated between shows as deputy DAs — a format the show, thankfully, dumped. Instead, Alfred Molina’s Ricardo Morales has exchanged his briefcase for a gun and a badge. Fed up with the politics and bureaucracy of the prosecutor’s office, Morales has returned to his former job as an LAPD detective, where he has partnered with Det. Tomas Jaruszalski, played by a now moustache-free Corey Stoll.
But the biggest, and greatest, revamp comes in the form of a familiar face: Alana De La Garza, who played Deputy District Attorney Connie Rubirosa in the original Law & Order. Her character joins the fold from New York. Apparently, she’s licensed to practise in both N.Y. and L.A. Seeing her, though, only made me yearn for Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Mike Cutter (Linus Roache) from the original show.
While this revamp of Law & Order: LA is definitely an improvement, it’s a far cry from its predecessor. Molina is an amazing actor, but Morales is no Jack McCoy. And Terrance Howard can’t hold a candle to Linus Roache’s DA.
There’s a saying: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and the original Law & Order certainly wasn’t broken. But when something is broken, it should be fixed, and LOLA certainly needed some fixing. Now it has some serious potential. It just needs one more adjustment: Bring back McCoy and Cutter.
See what you think tonight when the detectives look into a stylist’s past to help them find her murderer.
— Postmedia News
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