History Series / LawAndOrderLA

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Detective Rex Winters really lucked out like that.

* AssholeVictim[=/=]SympatheticMurderer: Taken UpToEleven in "Echo Park". The murder victim is a recently released mass murderer. The killer spent six years in prison wrongfully convicted for murdering her children, and spent three of those years being raped and tortured by the victim. The DA even lampshades how horrible of a case to prosecute it it. The woman herself is actually willing to go back to prison, she just wants to the DA's office to openly state that she was innocent of killing her children.

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* ActionMom / RetiredBadass: Creator/TeriPolo's character, who quit the force after becoming a mother. [[spoiler: She ''might'' be a bit corrupt, or at least a little too eager to get a confession.]]

* BadassMustache: Jaruszalski has an epic copstache. [[spoiler: He shaves it after Winter's death though.]]

* ImportantHaircut: Jaruszalski is seen clean shaven after [[spoiler:Winters is murdered]].

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: the history of the murder victim in ''Echo Park'' is an obvious {{Expy}} of the Manson Family.
** Plus, of course since it is a ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' series, episodes 1, 4, 5 and 6 are based in headlines as well.
** Rubirosa's first episode was based on [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11489774 one seriously twisted Canadian Air Force commander]] (the real-life interrogation really was that calm and polite, it just took about eight hours).
** "Hayden Tract" is a trifecta of headlines: a Tuscon shooting massacre-parallel occurs and the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case are mentioned, as are [[http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-01-07/bay-area/27015224_1_therapeutic-modules-mentally-ill-prisoners-prison-officials prison therapy cages]], er, "modules".

** I hoped they could've done one on the [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/30/local/me-ucla30 Yakuza liver transplants]], although that's probably ''Criminal Intent''[='s=] territory.

* ActionMom / RetiredBadass: Teri Polo's character, who quit the force after becoming a mother. [[spoiler: She ''might'' be a bit corrupt, or at least a little too eager to get a confession.]]

* ConspicuousCG / SpecialEffectFailure: 10,000 acres of poorly computer-generated pot, which somehow looked even worse as a photo.

* BusCrash: [[spoiler: Skeet Ulrich left mid-season. Alfred Molina's character was reassigned from DA to Homicide Detective while Ulrich's was killed off in ''Zuma Canyon''.]]

* ActionMom / RetiredBadAss: Teri Polo's character, who quit the force after becoming a mother. [[spoiler: She ''might'' be a bit corrupt, or at least a little too eager to get a confession.]]
* [[AsHimself As Herself]]: Khloe Kardashian-Odom

* ConspicuousCGI / SpecialEffectFailure: 10,000 acres of poorly computer-generated pot, which somehow looked even worse as a photo.

* DownerEnding: (see Wham Episode)

* HideYourGays: Technically, since these episodes take place before [[spoiler: Winters' death]] but aired afterwards: [[spoiler: The Hispanic Lieutenant gets in trouble after video of her recalling a time when she did racial profiling on a black man appears during the trial of a black man who shot up his all-Hispanic office because he thought they were all racists. It turned out that she was addressing a roomful of gay police officers (the same look of fear on her victims' face was the same as a lesbian who was beaten in NYC and she felt very ashamed) and didn't want to hurt the cops who hadn't come out of the closet or her young son. In the episodes after Winters' death but before this episode aired she and Morales seem to share a few unusually long looks (maybe she's actually bi, or they have some secret that would've been revealed next season?).]]

* ImportantHaircut: Jaruszalski is seen clean shaven after [[spoiler:Winters is murdered.]]

* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler: Det. Winters we hardly knew ye.]]

* WhamEpisode: Zuma Canyon [[spoiler: ends with Rex Winters dead, the guy who ordered the hit (on top of a hit on a real estate agent which included collateral casualties in the form of some of his family and four kids... since it was said agent's daughter's quincinera (think Sweet 15) party) gets away when the witness, an 11-year old boy, is killed (on orders from said guy) and Morales quits being a deputy district attorney and returns to the LAPD as a detective, after being frustrated with the justice system and prosecutorial politics, becoming Jaruszalski's new partner.]]

* {{Cancellation}}

* FakeAmerican: Alfred Molina.
* FakeNationality: Again, Molina. Playing as the Mexican-American Detective Ricardo Morales.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Sure, the ratings weren't that great, but what with being constantly shuffled around, going through a mid-season [=retool=] (after which ratings improved) and ''then'' showing the episodes out of order so that the end-of-season CliffHanger played ''right in the middle of the season'' made a lot of fans think that NBC never gave the show a chance.

* {Retool}}: Sensing trouble, NBC dropped Skeet Ulrich and bumped Alfred Molina to top billing. This was explained by Morales losing faith in the legal system, returning to his old career as a cop. His old spot was filled by ADA Rubirosa, aka that [[HelloAttorney ridiculously attractive lawyer]] from the original ''Law & Order''.

* ShoutOut: I want to believe a computer-game obsessed guy named [[Franchise/MassEffect Sheppard]] searching for someone named [[HalfLife Freeman]] is this...

* CaptainErsatz: the Echo Park Family is a stand-in for the infamous Manson Family.

* ShoutOut: I want to believe a computer-game obsessed guy named [[MassEffect Sheppard]] searching for someone named [[HalfLife Freeman]] is this...

''Law & Order: LA'' (2010-2011), originally titled ''Law & Order: Los Angeles'', is a ''LawAndOrder'' spinoff [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin set in]] UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. It was intended to replace the original series, which ended its successful 20-season run in 2010. However, it suffered low ratings, despite attempts to move it around in the schedule and a mid-season {{Retool}} that killed off one character, moved another from the DA's office to the LAPD, and introduced a {{transplant}} from the original series. It was canceled in May 2011, leaving several episodes from before the retool to be aired OutOfOrder.

* {{Crossover}}: With ''LawAndOrderSVU'' when Terrence Howard's DA goes to defends his cousin and with ''LawAndOrder'' when Rubirosa moves to LA.

* {{Expy}}: The Lieutenant looks like an American version of the [[LawAndOrderUK Detective Inspector]], right down to the sweaters [[spoiler: although the UK chief isn't gay, or at least hasn't been revealed as such]].

* {ReTool}}: Sensing trouble, NBC dropped Skeet Ulrich and bumped Alfred Molina to top billing. This was explained by Morales losing faith in the legal system, returning to his old career as a cop. His old spot was filled by ADA Rubirosa, aka that [[HelloAttorney ridiculously attractive lawyer]] from the original ''Law & Order''.

** Plus, of course it is LawAndOrder, episodes 1, 4, 5 and 6 are based in headlines as well.

''Law & Order: LA'' (2010-2011), originally titled ''Law & Order: Los Angeles'', is a ''LawAndOrder'' spinoff [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin set in]] UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. It was intended to replace the original series, which ended its successful 20-season run in 2010. However, it suffered low ratings, despite attempts to move it around in the schedule and a mid-season {{retool}} that killed off one character, moved another from the DA's office to the LAPD, and introduced a {{transplant}} from the original series. It was canceled in May 2011, leaving several episodes from before the retool to be aired OutOfOrder.

* ReTool: Sensing trouble, NBC dropped Skeet Ulrich and bumped Alfred Molina to top billing. This was explained by Morales losing faith in the legal system, returning to his old career as a cop. His old spot was filled by ADA Rubirosa, aka that [[HelloAttorney ridiculously attractive lawyer]] from the original ''Law & Order''.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Sure, the ratings weren't that great, but what with being constantly shuffled around, going through a mid-season ReTool (after which ratings improved) and ''then'' showing the episodes out of order so that the end-of-season CliffHanger played ''right in the middle of the season'' made a lot of fans think that NBC never gave the show a chance.

''Law & Order: LA'' (2010-2011), originally titled ''Law & Order: Los Angeles'', is a ''LawAndOrder'' spinoff [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin set in]] LosAngeles. It was intended to replace the original series, which ended its successful 20-season run in 2010. However, it suffered low ratings, despite attempts to move it around in the schedule and a mid-season {{retool}} that killed off one character, moved another from the DA's office to the LAPD, and introduced a {{transplant}} from the original series. It was canceled in May 2011, leaving several episodes from before the retool to be aired OutOfOrder.

* CaptainErsatz: the Echo Park Family is a stand-in for the infamous Manson Family.

* FakeNationality: Again, Molina. Playing as the Mexican-American Detective Ricardo Morales.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The tagline for an episode dealing with a [[HandsomeLech philandering]] [[JerkJock golfer]] and his [[WomanScorned justifiably angry wife]] was "Oh yeah -- we're going there".

* {{Socialite}}: It's set in LosAngeles, so the cops and attorneys sometimes have to deal with very rich, very privileged suspects and witnesses.

* HorribleHollywood: The series is pointedly more hostile toward leftist celebrities, reflecting Dick Wolf's politics. This is in contrast to the original ''L&O'' which was often accused of being too liberal -- a charge [[TakeThatCritics countered by [=McCoy=]]] (on a witness stand, no less!) in its final season.