Friday, 2 August 2013

Law an Order UK

I really like crime drama's on ITV like Scott and Bailey, Lewis, white chapel, Miss Marple ect, I like British crime Drama more than the US kind, I do like the CSI and murder she wrote ( I haven't seen the US Law and Order yet.)but american crime fiction is harder to relate to (the stories in CSI can be a bit wacky, like I remember one episode with a guy who was killed by being force fed board game pieces at a board game competition. I don't like the weird deaths it's like in Midsomer Murders when the murderer killed everyone with golf paraphernalia or when everyone was killed with cheese making items but it's just harder to understand with CSI because I'm not familiar with what the wacky murders are about.)

 you don't really realise how different the UK and the USA are until you compare television the best types of programs for comparing are sitcoms and crime drama, american and British soaps are different things entirely and the UK isn't the best place for cartoons but sitoms and crime drama are things that are in abundance on both sides of the ocean.

A lot of British crime drama either centers on the posh rural villages like Midsomer Murders or they focus on city life like Scott and bailey.
 Towns, city's and villages in the UK are very to the American counter parts, the suburbs for a city like New York generally have new nicely spaced apart houses and the area is peaceful whilst the suburbs of a city like London the houses are older, they sit closer together and the roads are busier.


So if you were to have a crime drama set in suburban New York it would be completely different to a crime drama set in suburban London.


Back to the point of Law and Order, recently a new series of Law and Order UK has started, the first two episodes featured a train crash where multiple people died after a man failed to commit suicide, the UK version in set in London and the episodes are usually based on the american series taking themes and plot of episodes and adapting, the first of the two episodes was called tracks and it was based off the episode locomotive.

I don't know what happened in the episode Locomotive but I loved the episode tracks, Freema Agyeman (Martha from Doctor Who) left and was replaced with Georgia Taylor who has an interesting character on the law team.

In this series I really like the acting of Bradley Walsh (Ronnie Brooks) and Paul Nicholls (Sam casey), Bradley Walsh is great in this considering how he can't keep a straight face on game show "the chase" he's just so friendly it seems weird for him to be an officer, I love the on screen relationship of Walsh and Nicholls and I'm sad to hear that Sam is leaving, the fact he leaves after six episodes is suspicious after Matt (Ronnie's last partner) having died I don't know how would Ronnie react (or me for that matter) if Sam died too, but I would rather he died instead of him just quitting or something.

According to Bradley Walsh series eight will start filming in October. 






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