L&O:SVU
I watched Law & Order on UK terrestrial TV, back in the day. It was a reasonable enough way to pass the time, given that would've passed anyway. The police procedural half of the show was entertaining, but although the prosecution half wrapped the story up, I was never that interested in lawyers talking legal bollocks. Lawyers aren't likeable heroes. Even if they're on the side of good, they're at best a necessary evil.
Anyhow, I've been watching clips from one of the spin-offs, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on YouTube. I don't know how realistic it is for half a dozen detectives to work the same case, especially when police forces claim that they're underfunded.
What really pisses me off is how each character seamlessly drops a line of exposition to the Captain, or whoever is acting on behalf of the audience. Often this is done while passing other characters, walking across or towards camera. Why can they not simply stay still and limit the exposition dump to each detective reporting their own line of enquiry? Better still, just have two of them.
It seems like too many actors need a moment of the camera to themselves, which doesn't help me to follow what's going on. The captain always seems to understand what they're telling him. But that's in the script, and he's read it beforehand.