law dawg Wrote:The procedural problems are the difference between England and the US. You don't transfer from an upstate PD as a detective to another department in another city. IOW, he's coming to NYPD from whatever small department he had been at. It doesn't work that way over here.
There were a few others that jumped out at me but I can't remember at the moment.
I like it a lot, too. I've always heard good things about the BBC series but I don't get the BBC channel on cable where it shows and there's no DVD set in U.S. format yet.
The soundtrack is good, including some less-obvious selections.
Not sure about the transfer situation in New York. I know you can do lateral transfers in the same pay grade in some states here in the West, as long as you are state POST certified - a persistent complaint is that LAPD trains its new officers who transfer after a few years to smaller departments where they make more money and the work conditions are better.
But I suspect there will be a lot of anomalies and things that don't seem to make sense in the American series, to heighten the mystery - I read that the American series will be less ambiguous and delve a lot more into the mystery of how he got to 1973 (with the British producer's approval).
And Harvey Keitel's always great to watch!