Feds

It is the southern district of New York. It is the lawyers working in the Manhattan office prosecuting cases and some FBI agents investigating a mob case.

This is a Dick Wolf joint which he created with Law & Order cohort Michael S. Chernuchin. The big mistake seems to be the letterbox format. It is a pioneer in American TV and that does come with some risks. I'm trying to remember my TV back in '97. It was probably an old tube style 27" and the letterbox would have created a restricted image. I doubt that I would have been a hater. As for the story, there is a continuing plot of the mob investigation headed by John Slattery and Dylan Baker. Each episode has one or two new cases which are resolved by the end. Binging helps the mob case. Mostly this is a swing and a miss for Dick.

"Feds" is probably one of the first dramatic television shows that I ever really got into, and I only wish that it was still making episodes. Made by Dick Wolf, Jody Milano and several others that bought "us" Law and Order, I will admit that plot-wise, Feds was probably not astonishingly different from L&O(but it's not like they ever copied each other), but Feds had...that certain something. Maybe it was the cast. Wolf bought what was sort of a theater lovers "dream team" in the form of Blair Brown, Dylan Baker, John Slattery(both of the NY theater group "The Drama Department"), Regina Taylor(who is a strong force behind Chicago's Goodman Theater), Grace Phillips and Adrian Pasdar. Not only had they all had an impressive number of theatrical credits, but all had had some experience in other dramatic TV series. Maybe that's what paid off. Whatever it was, Feds never failed to capture my interest for the entire time it ran...all six episodes. If only it had been longer. If only I had thought to tape some of them...