Joangulfcoast This series gets better every week. Tonight, the series finale, was phenomenal. The first few episodes were good, but as the series progresses, it gets better and better and better. I'm sorry now that I have to wait till the next season to pick up where they left off. Actors are fantastic, and of course, so are the writers. There are some good shows on TV, i.e. the Tbe Black List, Bluebloods, Black Box, Rush, Hawaii 50, Nashville, Revenge, and I am enjoying every single one of them PLUS many more; and I have to say, that Gang Related is up there with the best! Don't LET THEM CANCEL THIS ONE!!!! Too many of the good ones have been canceled, and this one has to stay.

D G Based on some of the reviews here, I checked this show out. It is essentially a soap opera. And the writing is barely up to that level. The premise itself is preposterous, but much of today's TV and movies have the same issue. It's just that most try hard not to suck. The writing here is full of overused clichés and forced drama. The characters are horrific stereotypes, and the acting!!! GAH!!!! If one can call it that, the acting makes you cry it is so bad. It hurts your soul. None of us mortals will ever know why the fantastic Terry O'Quinn signed on to this slow moving train wreck. You can see the tears he is fighting back as he delivers one bad line after another. One can only hope that he sees the error of his ways, and demands that the character kill himself.

fast-giga The problem with "Gang Related" is, that it tries too hard to be a serious TV show. The storyline trys to mimic the move "The Departed", with cops, gangs and moles in the police department. The problem is that this story is paired with a die-hardish action sequences, good action, but unrealistic. Basically its like trying to release the godfather trilogy with action scenes from a Jackie Chan movie. Just because two things are good when they are separated doesn't mean they are good when you combine them.Overall neither the storyline nor the action scenes are good, and combined both just don't fit to each other. My biggest problems are the action and story errors, here a couple of them: -HIV is claimed to be transmittable via touching. This is wrong, 50 years ago people infected with this terrible disease worked hard explaining to non-infected people that they are not a danger to the public. A tvshow in 2014 should be....more sensitive when it comes to such a topic.-the cops know about a heist, they stop the heist and arrest 18 gang members, this is portrayed as a huge success. The fact that 3 civilians dead during this heist isn't mentioned. They could have saved 3 lifes, but they choose its better to kill 18 gang members than to save 3 innocents. wtf? nice work.-the hero is investigated by internal affairs. He lied to them in his first report. The problem is his lies are terrible. He concealed that his partner was drunk at the moment he was killed, a thing which would have been detected at the autopsy (btw, it somehow wasn't detected). He lied about how much time passed between the first 3 shots at his partner and between the shot at him. He said 7 seconds while it was 58. It would have been no problem for him to say something like 30 seconds, no one would've cared.Overall, all tension in this TV show is created by stupid mistakes by the main characters. But it still tries to be a story driven cop-gang-mole TV-show. It should've focused on one thing: action or story.

markotark-32-188710 Contains spoilers about plot points up to the 5th episode.There is some charm in this show and a pretty good premise that hasn't been seen that much on TV. The actors are pretty good, but the characters are almost all one-dimensional and predictable along with the interaction between them. But those are minor problems when compared to the plot holes that keep piling on, episode after episode. The ones that bother me?One Russian gang-leader is arrested for human trafficking and they refuse to distribute drugs for the main gang because he isn't released.Why? Why would they expect that the Los Angelicos could get some human trafficker and baby seller out of jail? They have no idea that the LA's have an undercover operative in the law enforcement so why would they even ask somebody to do this and even less make the slave traders release a requirement to do business?The second major problem is that when RZA's character has the cleanest shooting ever in police history and he is suspended for it because lawsuits...It's like they have to keep the police officer spotless for us to care about his problem all the while they want us to believe that this would be the reason for his trouble. I mean, they have a kid that opened fire in a club while high on some tainted drug, who killed/wounded other civilians before opening fire on one police officer who took a hit in his vest BEFORE he was then shot by RZA's character with a single well aimed shot to the heart. Police have eyewitnesses against the kid. They have a bullet from the kids gun in a police officers vest and GSR on the kids hands. And this is the case that the LAPD/FBI/DEA would be scared to get sued over, so scared that they would react the way that they did?There are lot more problems like these in the writing, making me think that they have a general idea about a cop show but they lack the skill to make any sense in the interaction of the characters and making the problems they face seem even remotely realistic.But hey, what the hell would i know...