Agreed, it spoils an otherwise excellent show that you immediately recognise the storyline as one your had recently seen tirelessly overcovered in the news. This has often irked me as I watched L&O.
The current actors just don´t have any personality that I find especially gripping. Bratt and Orbach, both worked for me. But the black guy, who I like just fine as a sidekick and Farino, do not seem enough. Matter of personal taste perhaps, but given that, theres little draw to watch the show although I do like the lawyers.
Show sounds interesting – adding it to the TiVo lineup, so it can pile up next to all the other shows I’m not watching since I’m too busy feeding my WoW addiction instead :-/
Although, to their credit, they don’t just replicate the case, they try to look at it from a different angle. But still.
The current actors just don´t have any personality that I find especially gripping. Bratt and Orbach, both worked for me. But the black guy, who I like just fine as a sidekick and Farino, do not seem enough.
We’ll see how the transition goes. We’ll be on our, what, fifth cop pairing? We had Greevey/Logan, Logan/Briscoe, Briscoe/Bratt, Briscoe/Green, Farina/Green. Farina I think was a direct attempt to maintain an appeal to the older demographic that liked Orbach. Logan/Briscoe is still my favorite partnership on that show. Bratt was a little too overwound, and Green just lacks personality all the way around.
Matter of personal taste perhaps, but given that, theres little draw to watch the show although I do like the lawyers.
Well, just found out that Elisabeth Rome, amazing hottie but horrible actress, is leaving the show. Good lord. SVU turns 'em over pretty quickly too.
What I find strange is that they use actors playing different characters from prior seasons as new cast members later – playing different characters. Orbach played a defense lawyer in one of the first two seasons, and the current ADA in SVU was on SVU as a criminal the season prior.
Oh, right, forgot about that. Man, that’s a lot. You know, I’m pretty certain I’ve seen almost every episode made (thanks to TiVO), but I don’t remember the episode where Logan leaves (he punched a politician or something). Presumably they could bring him back now, which would be huge for the series.
They brought back Logan for a 2-hour L&O movie (“Exile”). It didn’t really follow the typical L&O format. It was basically just him investigating a homicide so he could try and work his way back to his old job. (Logan had been exiled to work the lame ass Staten Island precinct.) Anyway, I forget how it ended.
Well, yeah, but it’s not a “show”, it’s really a miniseries, so they can develop things quite a bit longer. And since all the dialog consists of random expletives strewn together, it’s definitely edgier. Oh, wait, sorry, I mean “edgier”.
