Homicide: Los Angeles – Review | Netflix

HOMICIDE: LOS ANGELES on Netflix is a new season of the true-crime docuseries. We’ve already gotten a season set in New York and the high production quality continues. Read our full Homicide: Los Angeles docuseries review here!

HOMICIDE: LOS ANGELES is a new season of the Netflix documentary series about true crime cases. We’ve already reviewed a season focusing on New York, which had impressive production quality and featured only relevant interviews.

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The first season which was Homicide: New York here >

I’m very pleased to say the same is the case for this Los Angeles-focused season. We’re getting five episodes with each of their cases. Like in the New York season, many detectives and prosecutors work on several cases, so we see them across multiple episodes.

Continue reading our Homicide: Los Angeles docuseries review below. Find it on Netflix from July 16, 2024.

From subway stations to highway signs

In the New York season of Homicide, we saw a timeline via signs on subway stations. Of course, for Los Angeles, something equally iconic to that city had to be used. So, instead of New York subway stations, we’re now seeing years listed on highway signs.

A very smooth transition that keeps the style and tone of this true-crime documentary series, but also makes it very L.A.

Homicide: Los Angeles exposes the most sinister side of the City of Angels. It also covers some famous cases, because celebrity criminals (or at the very least cases with celebrities on trial) are nothing new to Los Angeles.

Getting convictions, on the other hand, seems to be a problem for the DA of Los Angeles.

The 5 cases of the Los Angeles season

Just like in the New York season, Homicide: Los Angeles features veteran detectives, prosecutors, and victims’ loved ones. All with the purpose of telling the stories of terrible tragedies where someone was murdered.

The five-part series has the following episodes:

• “Hunting Phil Spector” is Episode 1
• “Race Car Killer” is Episode 2
• “Murder at the Beach” is Episode 3
• “A Hollywood Affair” is Episode 4
• “The Disappearing Wife” rounds out the LA season as Episode 5

This season covers such diverse cases as the very long murder prosecution of record producer Phil Spector to the tragic death of young mother Teresa Broudreaux. The latter was a case that remained unsolved for more than 20 years.

In total, Homicide: Los Angeles covers murders over a span of four decades, so we’re getting both the recent cases and those that were simply closed more recently.

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Los Angeles County is home to more than 9 million people, and a whole lot of visitors and tourists year-round. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department covers the entire country, so that’s the poorest and the richest, which makes for a huge change in scenery.

L.A. is known for sun, surf, sand, and star power, but also has its fair share of murders. Also, the LAPD has quite a bleak reputation, which means a series like this one could help focus on some of the better work they’ve done as well.

In Homicide: New York, I was fascinated by the fierce Barbara Butcher, and there’s someone who won me over in Homicide: Los Angeles as well. Police Detective Mark Lillienfield comes across as someone who fights for justice. Always focusing on doing right by the victims.

This is the latest installment of Dick Wolf’s series, which covered NY cases in season one, and now covers LA’s most headline-grabbing crimes in season 2. I’m not sure what will come next, but Chicago seems like a city that should get its own season as well.

Homicide: Los Angeles is out on Netflix from July 16, 2024.