James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons (2011) User Reviews

Odd, but interesting

[katydb97 · 6/10 · 1 June 2021]

I love true crime. The host of the show, James Ellroy, is very strange. The way he speaks, how dramatic he is and I really didn't like the fake dog he kept talking to. I really don't get the dog. I have it a six because of the topics, extremely fascinating.

True Stories Of The Dark Side Of LA & Hollywood

[kenkuehne · 7/10 · 22 March 2018]

Facinating biographies, interviews and reinactments of true crime stories centering on LA and Hollywood. Great stuff.

LA: City of Ellroy's Slurred Delivery

[blademan-95603 · 1/10 · 2 March 2019]

Ellroy's affected manner as presenter in this series is so irksome and distracting (he actually seems to be miming a stroke victim or some poor backward possibly drunk} slurred speech soul reading from cue cards ) as to ruin whatever content that may otherwise have contained some potential interest.

Bad Narration and Excessive Aliteration Undermined A Potentially Fascinating Series

[cah-12019 · 4/10 · 19 December 2021]

Some writers have great voices and a talent for delivery which makes them naturals at narrating. Unfortunately James Ellroy does not have the ability to deliver the dialog of the narrator in this series. Every sentence he speaks seems excessively forced and the use of alliteration is so excessive it becomes obnoxious. This is a shame because Ellroy is a talented writer and the subject matter covered in this series had the potential to be genuinely fascinating, but this was undermined by some bad production choices and choice of narrator.