After reading the hype-ist reviews here at IMDb, I gave Season 1 a try. First, the entire show plays out like a high school play, written by a young teen with his/her perceptions of how a police squad room and police station is run. The dialog is over-the-top 60's style goop with gang members depicted as "clubs", politicians depicted as Dean Wormer(s), ex-wives acting like unreasonable shrews, and police officers acting like whore mongers. This show's acting is horrendous. Everyone is at a setting of 11 all of the time. Nobody arrests anyone in this show for a any good reason. Cops are jumped by Latinos, guns stolen... no investigation. In fact, in this particular scene, the captain tells the offers whose guns were taken not to worry about a few missing guns! It just goes on and on with unrealistic melodrama. Overall, more of a comedy than a drama.
Review of Hill Street Blues
