dutton The quality of all the production elements are top flight. Acting, directing and technical, but then there's the story selection...Having watched the first two airings on BBC-America and scratching the surface of the old originals: "Care" is a remake of L&O:Mothership's second season show "Cradle to Grave" (#2.18) and "Unloved" is a remake of "Born Bad" (#4.9).I so anticipated watching the new version of "Law & Order", only to be disappointed to find I could have watched re-runs on a cable network.Okay, I'm not the only one to notice, but I, too, am a tad disgruntled particularly with the credit "Executive Producer Dick Wolf".I have some catching up to do of the first season's episodes, but some of the other reviews don't give me much hope until the second season.

akizme Well, as a die hard fan of most of the Law and Order franchises (save for the Los Angeles declination), I must say I got hooked from watching the very first episode on (BBC America ya'll- Friday nights at 9pm or at Comcast on Demand).Just like the US version, a lot of the stories are based on news items that make it big in the UK. The treatment is gritty and captures your attention and it is always fun to listen to British slang (which I must admit sometimes escapes me completely and I must rely on general context to try and guess what they are saying, but I am not complaining as it makes for a little bit more flavor).The acting is really, really good across the board. I like all the characters, and I am especially engrossed in the procedural side of the stories, as it is very interesting to me to see how it is done (albein in a serialized fashion) overseas. I think the cast is across the board good and they all work together really well.So, all told, this Law and Order/UK has gained a loyal follower.

walsh-22 I have been a keen viewer of Law and Order for a while and have watched all the spin-offs as well so I was really excited that they were going to do a UK version.I happened to be one of the people who was not disappointed and really enjoyed it. They had the key elements of the Law and Order show- the two sides of the law shown, the police who find the killers and the CPS who prosecute them, there was the customary noise at the end of each scene and titles on the screen to tell the audience where the scene was set but it was very British.I thought they picked the right cast for this, they were all amazing and the reason I mention Bradley Walsh is he surprised me at how good he was and I was really annoyed at the critics for not seeing that. If I have a criticism about his character, it is that he reminds me too much of the Lenny Briscoe character in the original Law and order.The only other complaint I have is the music at the start and end of the show, it is just ghastly and I really hate it.The stories are very much related to what is happening in Britain at the moment or what could happen in the future.I really hope it gets commissioned for another series.

scorpiocat I haven't yet decided, as a huge L&O fan, if this stands up to scrutiny. Firstly, the characters. Bradley's seems an Anglicised version of the wonderful Lenny Briscoe, and Bill's seems entirely based on Jack McCoy. The acting has been of a better standard than I expected, and the 'formula' has been followed.I agree with Greg Noel and maybe some others that the plot for the second episode was directly lifted from the original episode of L&O "Born Bad", and the first episode also seemed strangely familiar in plot. Having just seen episode 3, it's another complete copy of an episode from the original series.I had hoped that it was not going to be a regular occurrence. As it would appear that this is the case, sadly I will be turning off, until there are newly written episodes, instead of rehashed ones.I really,really hate repeats, and this is almost as bad as a repeat!