I was saying to Patel that as Americans, we kind of get other things out of it, too. It's like a cultural experience for us, being raised on American police procedurals, it's like going down the rabbit whole to not only be tossed into the modern day procedural-y setting at the beginning of episode 1, but to then quickly get tossed into a foreign procedural in a very different era. Different rankings to learn, different attitudes and ways of approaching things.
It probably sounds very silly to you, but it was kind of intimidating my first 2 episodes, trying to remember what the different rankings meant. The US rankings have been so ingrained in me by US shows that it seemed sort of
unnatural to see the same concepts with different names. That's probably a very American thing to say.
Also, even as a big music nerd that knows a lot about what the 70s were like in the US and the UK, it's just
different to see them portrayed. I'm not saying the show is accurate or anything--I don't know
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, and for plot reasons, it may not be accurate at all
--but it certainly is a different setting, at least different than I am used to.
And then there's the narrative. Well, I don't want to give that away because I think the show is very clever, and I'm hoping that if I whore it enough, more people than just Patel will give it a chance before David E. Kelley's American version shits up the airwaves.
