Jimmy Smits

Jimmy Smits plays Victor Sifuentes on L.A. Law, the 1980s catalog lawyer in a rotating firm that stacked Drama Series hardware. Glossy, talky, addictive: Smits is litigation as a leading-man job. He makes Bochco-era legal drama feel like it has a pulse that is not only the elevator.

Jimmy Smits’s L.A. Law work is a weekly fact on NBC (1986–1994). File s01e01: The Pilot makes the firm a lifestyle: Hamlin, Dey, Smits, Bernsen's oily Arnie — talky legal soap as the 1986 water-cooler. Victor Sifuentes is what the hour is selling. Merch can wait in the hallway.

NYPD Blue later put him in Bochco and Milch’s adult-out-loud precinct — Dennis Franz’s alcoholic detective as climate, broadcast learning how to be raw. On TV Flash Smits is 1980s/1990s craft — Sifuentes as the named weather, a badge as the encore, still the reason a firm and a squad room share a stare.

ABC later used Smits on NYPD Blue as Bobby Simone. Start that title at s01e01 — The pilot that made butts, badges, and language fights a Tuesday event — adult network drama as weekly news. Smits does not visit this floor; he works it. s02e01 on L.A. Law remains a useful hour: The Lung Goodbye is season two's punning open: Bochco-era network legal drama already addicted to title wit and rotating counsel. s04e01 on NYPD Blue remains a useful hour: Moby Greg: precinct grit mid-run, when the antihero badge had already survived Standards and a revolving partner desk. s01e01 on L.A. Law remains a useful hour: The Pilot makes the firm a lifestyle: Hamlin, Dey, Smits, Bernsen's oily Arnie — talky legal soap as the 1986 water-cooler.