SummarySyd Burnett (Gabrielle Union) is now a LAPD detective and has a new partner in Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba) in this follow-up series to the Bad Boys movies.
Created By:Brandon Margolis, Brandon Sonnier
❮ L.A.'s Finest
Season 1
Season Premiere:
May 13, 2019
Metascore
Mixed or Average
50
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5.9
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
May 9, 2019
85
Obviously, some will see the gender of the leads a momentous occasion worth trumpeting, and it is, but the show is packaged so nicely and the partners are so complementary that their sex becomes moot.
Sep 21, 2020
75
The bang-bang in L.A.'s Finest is long and loud—two car chases and two shootouts in the first 12 minutes—but it's too well-staged to complain about. And the lurid back stories of the detectives—even their secrets have secrets—keep things interesting even in the infrequent moments when nobody is being tortured or killed.
User score
Mixed or Average
56% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
6% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
38% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Jun 13, 2019
10
Great show lots of great drama! really like the fact that these tv cops are not perfect in their personal lives.
Jun 9, 2019
10
Great series!!! Idk how this didn't make it to a major network. They are missing out
Sep 21, 2020
55
It’s a pretty light-hearted action-drama, the kind of show where Syd and Nancy banter their way through a bullet-riddled convenience store hold-up/hostage crisis.
May 13, 2019
42
Hollywood still churns out cut-and-paste action comedies, but now women get to take the lead. [17/24 May 2019, p.90]
Apr 30, 2019
42
Everyone can find another show exactly like this one on Fox or other broadcast networks, USA or other cable outlets, and even streaming services. They don’t need Spectrum for this kind of show, and this specific show doesn’t do much to make it feel needed at all.
May 13, 2019
40
Whatever L.A.'s Finest is, it isn't bad on an outlier level. It's as good as much of what counted as broadcast television dramas this past season. This is not in any way intended as a compliment, just my acknowledgement that as thoroughly mediocre as it is, L.A.'s Finest feels like the sort of show that, in a different era, easily could have attracted a healthy audience on broadcast.
Apr 29, 2019
25
L.A.’s Finest is a loud, dumb mess of a cop drama, loaded up with corny punchlines and incoherent plotting.
May 28, 2019
10
Amazing hope they do more than originally planned. This is a great show, and needs a long series, slot can be done with it.
Dec 15, 2025
7
Rather than continuing the style of its original series Bad Boys, L.A.'s Finest presents itself as a police procedural soap opera, offering pleasant surprises through its in-depth exploration of character relationships and steady narrative approach.
Sep 21, 2020
2
Cardboard characters - cliche dialogue- dare I say “sharknado” This is simply awful
May 23, 2019
1
This is an awful attempt by spectrum to produce a series. The acting is aweful , the story line us a joke, the actor development was down by someone who has no clue on about a detective series or cops in general. I tortured myself through about 20 minutes and then shut it down. What a shame and a waste
