# Law & Order: LA (2010)

> An elite LAPD Robbery Homicide Division unit takes on high-profile crimes across Los Angeles, from Beverly Hills to Hollywood's seamy underside.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/30033

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 22
- Episode runtime: 43 min
- Status: Canceled
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Dick Wolf
- Network: NBC
- Cast: Tamlyn Tomita, Travis Van Winkle, Elizabeth Anweis, Wanda De Jesus, Shawnee Smith, Oded Fehr, Michael O'Neill, John Patrick Amedori
- TMDB rating: 6.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1657081/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: gritty, brisk, methodical, tense

## Synopsis

Law & Order: LA (2010-2011) is a US network crime procedural created by Dick Wolf for NBC, a single-season spin-off in the long-running Law & Order franchise. Detectives of the LAPD's elite Robbery Homicide Division, led by Miwako Nishizawa (Tamlyn Tomita), investigate high-profile killings and robberies that move from the tony mansions of Beverly Hills to the seedy nightlife and backlots of Hollywood. The engine of each episode is the case itself: a crime pulled from the headlines, a suspect pool that widens with every interview, and a rotating roster of guest characters whose secrets surface across the hour. Shape is episodic, a case-of-the-week format running twenty-two episodes, with little serialized carryover between investigations. Its tone is brisk and procedural, grounded and gritty, with a clean-lined sense of Los Angeles as a city of contrasts. Fans of Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Dragnet will find the same methodical, ripped-from-the-headlines investigation rhythm here, set against the sun-bleached glamour and grime of west coast crime.

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