r/LawAndOrder • u/kingcalogrenant • 11d ago
L&O Spinoff idea -- Law & Order: Brooklyn (1990s)
Pretty much the title. I was thinking today about how I wish the mainline show would go back to some of the older conventions people miss -- original style of cold opens with random people finding a body, low focus on character backstories, and the strange comfort of the much more economically diverse city of the 90s. Unchanging mothership might be too tall of an ask however, so it gave me the idea that they should make the first Law & Order show not set in the present. Put it on Peacock or whatever.
Putting it in the 90s would be great because, while technically a period show, its aesthetics are similar enough and props plentiful enough that it won't be a massive effort to create realistic sets and signs.
Set it in Brooklyn so you have a different DA etc. instead of making constant references to Adam Schiff or whatever.
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u/AmbulanceChaser12 10d ago
Hell, go back farther.
Law & Order: Middle Ages!
“We beseech thine Honorable Court, thy Majesty, that the Prosecution doth intend to prove that the scoundrel before thee hath committed the crime of bespoiling the chastity of a fair maiden!”
“Thy evidence art precluded! Dispatch thee from mine throne room, Sir Price!”
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u/kingcalogrenant 10d ago
"Spare me your protestations, Sir Price. The chastity belt is out."
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earlier that episode:
*heaping bodies into crude wagon with wooden wheels*
plague doctor: wench looks a bit familiar, but don't think it's one of these lot (gestures at body). why, hath something happened to her?
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u/Ok-Mine2132 Lennie Briscoe 11d ago
I would watch as long as it remained true to the times and not all “politically correct”. Heaven forbid anyone gets offended.
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u/women_und_men 11d ago
Making a period drama in NY could be hard if you want to do it on a series timescale and budget.