Law and Order: Search and Destroy

is jack mccoy supposed to be drunk in his first episode (at the beginning of season 5)?

rey curtis, bleh

is the beginning of season 8 the first episode that starts with a live victim?

unfortunately not in the spreadsheet: http://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/11/13/the-law-and-order-database-all-20-seasons/

i never looked at that before. i didn't realize that he keeps track of NOTHING.

i started my OWN spreadsheet last year for homicide.xls and it was a monstrous task trying to keep track of even the little i tried to keep track of - the different detectives' cases and the big incidents in their lives / relationships. of course, in the first couple seasons they would routinely be running three separate stories per episode.

L&O spreadsheet should keep track of things like law-time-to-order-time proportion, cases where adam schiff leaves the office, episodes where the crime involves people in the criminal justice system, etc.

ha, i had a homicide board spreadsheet where i'd keep a note of all the names that appeared on the board. got kinda messy has i hadn't realised that they flipped the board over for the other shift... (also, episodes were sometimes shown in a different order to the filming order so lists would go up and down).

don't they also add names for cases that aren't shown?

yeah, often members of the crew or visitors.

i had forgotten how much skoda is just like FUCK IT WHATEVER in comparison to olivet

'don't get weepy on me. i'm not nixon, and you're not ehrlichman.'

I need to start watching the reruns again regularly, the Lenny Episodes were just straight gold.

Stopped caring about SVU a few seasons back.

This is as good a place as any for me to mention that I'm still pissed that the LA spinoff was cut off at the knees

loved corey stoll on the LA spinoff, the rest was iffy

I like that they brought back Connie on LOLA.

that woman really deserved better

i know the ratings weren't great but c'mon it was a law and order show. given another season i'm sure it would have gotten an audience! i have no idea why they thought they had any remotely better ideas.

Bear in mind that was the same year as The Event, The Cape, and Outsourced. The following year they made and cancelled the US remake of Prime Suspect

But I have to admit I kinda hated LOLA, pre- and post-retool. Definitely would've preferred that they NOT cancel the original, the team at that time was pretty decent

this show has the best russians

The last few seasons of Law and Order were pretty good.

Ha ha, Jenna Stern retweeted me.

they were GREAT

Somehow I only just noticed Law and Order: UK exists.

it's re-imaginings of old l&o scripts. you're not missing much tbh.

'she scared me, that girl… she have heart like KGB'

They should call L&O: UK L&O: Doctor Who

Didn't the UK one have the Adama kid from Battlestar Galactica?

yeah apollo was on the uk one

pff who cares, it had Martha Jones

man i hate this guy

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080902171418/lawandorder/images/4/4d/William_Wright.jpg

huh this makes perfect sense who woulda thunk it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-back_life_sentences

they have real mayors and governors and presidents but when jack argues in front of the supreme court they're strangely vague about any real-world correspondences to the justices -

http://lawandorder.wikia.com/wiki/Vaya_Con_Dios

even though in the next episode giuliani appears as himself to introduce nora lewin as schiff's replacement

http://lawandorder.wikia.com/wiki/Everybody%27s_Favorite_Bagman

Steven Zirnkilton, best known as the opening credits narrator for all L&O series, makes his sole on-screen appearance in this episode. He is one of the NYPD technicians conducting covert surveillance of a restaurant where corrupt politicians are dining. He has one line of dialogue: "Look at that. Do you believe these guys?"

= opening credits guy must be the one who is compiling all the footage and telling the stories for 20 years!

I bought the Jerry Orbach biography. I cried at the end.

'crouching tiger, hidden student'

man, i've been watching later-season episodes on like russian and indian pirate streaming video sites, every once in a while there's a wonky video transfer that makes it like watching a law & order screw tape

caught so flat-footed after 9/11, half a season before they even mention it and then it's always these awkward punch-ins, 'well with what's going on in this city…', 'nowadays people think the more information, the better'

clay davis really tears it up in the wire reunion episode w/ wee-bey and bunk in it

i never noticed before, like half the episodes fontana has been in so far, he's told a witness 'we're authorized' to get information out of them. is that some kind of in-joke from farina's earlier roles?

he keeps doing it, it's hilarious

nearly every opening in season 17 shows the victim getting killed, or alive before the body is discovered.

something something did not honor the fire.

season 18 is so much better than the preceding ones (back until harmon/schiff were still around). proof of the showrunner principle - rene balcer was back!

more leisurely scenes (sisto must make a difference there, the conversations he's in just seem naturally slower), and more small details, like the thing with the whistles during the blackout episode, or the larry craig bathroom-tapping scene with john doman, or the new workplace adjustments of having mccoy sticking his nose in between cutter (the new guy) and rubirosa (pre-existing relationship with mccoy, but now reporting to cutter). tricksier cases, too.

I love the last 3 seasons.

anthony anderson explains unions 2 u

cutter vs. rubirosa!

man this season is on point

that was one of the most hilariously contrived L&O situations ever

oh no! there's a DA strike... so Connie has to defend the criminal!!

lol mccoy on the kennedy assassination - 'ongoing investigation??!'

'so where do the juggalos hang out?'

http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/named-entities-in-law-and-order-using-nlp.html

Hahaha

I'm getting misty now

Treating PTSD with Law and Order

I have seen every episode of every franchise at least a dozen times (except for the season of "Criminal Intent" with Jeff Goldblum and Saffron Burrows. No.)