I've been meaning to watch this series for years, but always end up watching a new series and this just keeps getting put on the back burner. I'm thinking of starting it this weekend, but I note it ran from 2002 to 2008, has it outdated at all or will I still get the same pleasure that people got when it was actually still running?
shareNow may be a better viewing experience because you can binge the episodes if you get hooked. Watching this week to week when it was coming out was great but waiting on the next episode was hard at times.
shareUnless people using payphones or flip phones upsets you you'll should be fine there's nothing about the series that will feel outdated
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It is a great series. I never saw the original run, but watched it on Amazon. Watched it numerous times since and gets better with each watch.
I'm currently binging for the 4th time. It has aged very well. The multitude of characters through the seasons makes this one of the deepest shows out there. Drugs, politics, corruption... Thats every year every decade.
Game ain't changed. Just got more fierce
I'm late to the party, but wanted to add one thing: *IF* you're like me (and a few of my friends) and find it hard to follow in the early going, stick with it; you'll be glad you did. When I first started watching, I guess I was in the mood for something "simpler," and gave up after an episode or two. Being stuck at home post-surgery with my satellite out and nothing else to watch turned out to be a blessing in disguise!
shareI'm late to the party, but wanted to add one thing: *IF* you're like me (and a few of my friends) and find it hard to follow in the early going, stick with it; you'll be glad you did. When I first started watching, I guess I was in the mood for something "simpler," and gave up after an episode or two. Being stuck at home post-surgery with my satellite out and nothing else to watch turned out to be a blessing in disguise!
The technology is crazy dated, but then it is set in the past.
My complaints with this series are limited to some fairly weak plot points, one of which put me off the watching it half way through the second season. I came back to it a couple of years later and binged, but it does have some fairly lazy moments where you just have to let it slide, and be willing to engage your suspension of disbelief (if you have any familiarity with police, or just reality in general). Like one of the homicide detectives fresh on scene giving time of death for a corpse a few hours old to within single minutes based on... amazing cop skills. Not even Ted Danson, or David Caruso could pull that one off!
The first season is the best, and (like the theme music) it gets successively weaker with each installment. That said it is still a very good series of series.