I wrote a comment for this show the day it first aired and I feel the same way now, after the show's cancellation, as I felt then, and that is that the show reeked, and I am so, so glad that it was canceled. I am a major fan (and scholar)of the original, black-and-white "Dragnet" and I was extremely disappointed when I saw this update of the show (though, I must admit, I expected it to be rotten). All Dick Wolf did when he created this version was give us a fourth version of "Law and Order," which we didn't need. Things were close enough to "Law and Order" in the first season, when there were only two regular cops on the show. But then, due to an utter lack of chemistry between the two worst possible choices for Friday and Smith (O'Neill and Embry), they got a new partner along with several more characters, including an attorney, which really made the show look like "Law and Order." In case Dick Wolf doesn't know it, none of the original Jack Webb "Dragnet" shows had a lawyer who hounded Friday and his partner for more evidence. And I hated how this new "Dragnet" only covered robbery-homicide division, something that every other cop show on TV covers now. If this new show had covered divisions like armed robbery, forgery, burglary-auto, and even juvenile (all of which the original "Dragnet" shows covered) this show, guaranteed, would have won its time slot. Thank you very much, ABC, for canceling this new, disastrous show.
Review of Dragnet
