Finally, I'm sure. One of TV's best shows in its Hennessy/Noth days, "Law & Order" has made the treacherous trip to mediocrity. It was a difficult five-step process, but Wolf and company were up to the task:
1) Kill off Hennessy. Have three progressively more annoying female ADAs take her place. Have the third be unable to speak a) at all naturalistically and b) without a smirk on her face.
2) Make nearly every case transparently "interesting" by sending it through approximately 17 twists before smacking the audience with the big “surprise ending.”
3) Oh, and since the cases are so "interesting," remove any dialogue that isn't perfunctory (other than two or three lame one-liners for Orbach).
4) Increase the number of high-quality episodes needed each year from 24 to 48 and now 72. (Not that the one episode I've seen of each of the spinoffs was high-quality, mind you.)
5) Have the DA's office win every single case. In this Wednesday's episode, they originally lost their case; can't end the episode there, though, so they trick their perp into confessing, then come up with a way to try her without running into double jeopardy. Whatever.
The one thing "Law & Order" has done right in the past four or five years -- replacing stilted Ben Bratt with lively Jessie Martin -- isn't close to fixing the bore the show has become. C'mon, guys. You did it right for five years. Why can't you do it again?
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
