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Law & Order

1990 · 25 seasons7.3TV-14
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In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

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Law & Order splits every episode into two halves: first you watch detectives hunt down a criminal, then you watch prosecutors take them to court. Dick Wolf created this formula back in 1990 and it basically became the template for every cop-and-lawyer show that followed. The crimes are pulled from real headlines, so you're always dealing with actual cases that happened, just with the names changed. The show moves fast — no wasted scenes, just police work and legal arguments. If you liked The Wire or Homicide: Life on the Street, this is where that DNA came from.

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