East New York is a misfire. It tries so hard to be NYPD Blue, but ignores what made that show so great, the victims and their families drove the stories, you wanted those perpetrators caught because as the viewer, you wanted to see those families at peace. The detectives were also nuanced and compelling to watch, even from the first episode Andy Sipowicz was a very different cop to say Mike Logan or Lenny Briscoe from Law and Order. The victims are just bodies on this show, there is no relatability or crushing interviews with their loved ones, that drove plots. Its just paint by numbers soulless cop procedural. No emotional baggage from these detectives as they try to solve cases with level heads their biases coming through those frustrations. This show from all standpoints is just bland and shockingly with so much hype as being controversial, extremely inoffensive.
The pilot was so uneven and so sluggish that even the writers forgot they were a cop show for a minute because much of the hour was spent about one of the detectives and his girlfriend buying a bar. This took up so much time that everything related to the actual case was tied up just by forced circumstance. Oh the Russian shooter just happened to be on the plane with the Trump like businessman. Really? Its just sad because the core premise about a female Deputy Inspector wanting to change her department's idea of policing from the corrupt show force and shoot questions never, to a valued member of the community as a way to lower crime figures is intriguing for a network drama, especially CBS, but everything is done so lazily I cannot recommend this one at all.
SonofRobinHood t1_isvcq0k wrote
Reply to Broadcast TV’s New Fall Series Ranked by Premiere Viewers - Fire Country (5.91M), East New York (5.27M), So Help Me Todd (4.81M) by Neo2199
East New York is a misfire. It tries so hard to be NYPD Blue, but ignores what made that show so great, the victims and their families drove the stories, you wanted those perpetrators caught because as the viewer, you wanted to see those families at peace. The detectives were also nuanced and compelling to watch, even from the first episode Andy Sipowicz was a very different cop to say Mike Logan or Lenny Briscoe from Law and Order. The victims are just bodies on this show, there is no relatability or crushing interviews with their loved ones, that drove plots. Its just paint by numbers soulless cop procedural. No emotional baggage from these detectives as they try to solve cases with level heads their biases coming through those frustrations. This show from all standpoints is just bland and shockingly with so much hype as being controversial, extremely inoffensive.
The pilot was so uneven and so sluggish that even the writers forgot they were a cop show for a minute because much of the hour was spent about one of the detectives and his girlfriend buying a bar. This took up so much time that everything related to the actual case was tied up just by forced circumstance. Oh the Russian shooter just happened to be on the plane with the Trump like businessman. Really? Its just sad because the core premise about a female Deputy Inspector wanting to change her department's idea of policing from the corrupt show force and shoot questions never, to a valued member of the community as a way to lower crime figures is intriguing for a network drama, especially CBS, but everything is done so lazily I cannot recommend this one at all.