In the first episode, Syd and Nancy are seen engaging in the most typical Los Angeles behavior possible: arguing over traffic, the GPS, and local routes of navigation. Right off the bat, L.A.’s Finest throws its audience into the heart of Los Angeles - a.k.a.
(Photo by Sony Pictures Television/Spectrum Originals, Photographer: Erica Parise) “In real life people, are a lot more fluid… and so that’s how we want to see women on this show.” “It was always sort of keeping us inside of these boundaries and these roles,” she said. Originally, Nancy was more “uptight” with a “perfect life,” and Syd was “the rebellious one,” Alba revealed. “In the NBC version,” Union said, “there is no woman in my bed… But in the Spectrum/Charter version, she’s back!” Their wardrobes were more limited, their characters felt more archetypical, and Syd’s sexuality was, well, straight.
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“You really get to go on that journey with us.”Īlba and Union agreed that there were some real, concrete differences when the series was aiming for network distribution. “It’s different for a show like ours to tackle more of the personal relationships and less of a procedural,” Alba said.
It also meant focusing on characters’ relationships and emotional lives rather than just the nitty gritty of their jobs as detectives. But with Michael Bay’s ’90s action flick Bad Boys as its source material - and support from Jerry Bruckheimer Television - L.A.’s Finest feels more like an action-thriller series than a clean-cut cop drama.įor the L.A.’s Finest team, the cable vibe wasn’t just about a visual look that combined TV and cinematic techniques. On paper, L.A.’s Finest might sound like a procedural: Two cops fighting crime in Los Angeles. (Photo by Nicole Wilder/Spectrum Originals) “The proof is in the pudding.”įrom Clean-Cut Procedural to Rough-and-Real Drama The Spectrum Original series will be available on demand for customers of the cable service only, but Union isn’t worried about people missing her show. It’s the first original series for cable provider Charter Communications/Spectrum, and thus it’s a guinea pig of sorts for the service. We’re just people in the world that you want to hang out with.” “You don’t have to call out that we’re women all the time. “It felt really modern to tell this story of this friendship and this partnership of two women in a modern time, in a modern world,” Alba said during Rotten Tomatoes’ visit to the show’s Los Angeles-area set in February. They might not trust each other with all their dirty secrets at first, but no matter what, Syd and Nancy always have each other’s backs. Together, Syd and Nancy - not named for the infamous punk duo, they promise - encounter action-packed crime scenarios at work and in their personal lives.
cop alongside her equally badass partner, Nancy McKenna ( Jessica Alba). Now, Syd moves to Los Angeles (and television) on L.A.’s Finest, a follow-up of sorts that shares her new adventures as an L.A.
Back then, Syd was working for the federal government and toppling cartels in Miami. It’s been 15 years since we saw Syd Burnett ( Gabrielle Union) taking names and stealing scenes from her brother Marcus ( Martin Lawrence) and then-boyfriend Mike ( Will Smith) in Bad Boys II.
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