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This week's Law & Order episode demonstrated the awfulness of the reboot

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (20179)
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https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/in-21-seasons-has-there-ever-been-a-more-laughable-episode-of-law-order.php

"As much as we may have been looking forward to the return of Law & Order after a 10-year hiatus, this season of the long-running series has been a failure," says Dustin Rowles. "The series has forgotten what we loved about it — the staid predictability, the novel legal theories, the detached characters — and instead leaned too hard into the 'ripped from the headlines' aspect. That element of the series went off the deep end in this week’s episode, which somehow managed to combine Anna Delvey and the goddamn Sackler family into one episode. How, you might ask? By arresting a murderer in the first half and then trying a completely separate murder case in the latter half."

[–] liscarkat (18541) 2 years ago

Bad writing, bad casting, bad acting, and wokeness ruin the current version of "Law and Order". It's over. They need to let it die.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Yep.
It has to be liberal if it's going to attack current headlines and issues.
We are to divided for that and no network has the balls to step forward.
They are Wall Street driven.

[–] snepts (11123) 2 years ago

If you are implying the "liberal" (your word) = Wall Street driven, that's utterly laughable.
A non-liberal L&O would be about rich people always getting away with crap, which isn't what the average person wants to watch. We like underdogs and heroes trying to help the disadvantaged.

[–] GolfnGuitars (2938) 2 years ago

I tried to watch the reboot, but I just couldn't do it. I just can't watch the episodes after Jerry Orbach left...for me, he was the show (although Steven Hill's departure a few years previous really weakened the show as well).