First Season was Excellent

Sadly this also happened to Boomtown.

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The first season was great. L.A. Dragnet is just great television. Probably one of the best cop shows I have ever seen. Fans of the city of Los Angeles will be in for a real treat as this city is featured as much as the great characters and acting talents. Definitely worth your time.









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Agreed. That 2nd season was jaw-droppingly bad.. I only saw about 7 episodes before I gave up on this stinker. What were they thinking?

It's one thing to have a bad show. But it's quite another to screw up a good thing (first season) so much.

The last time I saw this happening (although to a vastly smaller degree) was the mediocre 3rd season of Millennium compared to the brilliant 2nd season. That also seemed "retooled". I'm not talking about a show simply getting worse (like the last couple of seasons of X-Files), which isn't attributable to retooling so much as new actors/writers and just running out of ideas.

I agree, the first season was incredible. Then they completely ruined it by adding all these new characters and getting rid of Smith! WTH?! The whole point and driving force of Dragnet was the dynamic between Smith and Friday! The writers must have been getting crap from the PC police, which is why these random characters who are perfectly diverse in gender and ethnicity were added, and then Smith nixed. I'm not saying by any means I don't support diverse casts, it's just that for this show they tried too hard to make it PC, and they ruined it.

Not cool, man, not cool. They destroyed a beautiful thing.

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