Law and Order: Search and Destroy

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.)

I like them best when they pretend to be an overbearing wealthy couple in order to get information.

Oh man, Eames and Goren pretending to be a couple >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Benson and Stabler.

yeah, they were a lot more convincing

lol why he gotta hate on saffron burrows

goldblum season of CI is surprisingly good!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/07/22/dennis_farina_dead_actor_and_former_cop_was_loved_for_law_order_get_shorty.html

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aww. rip.

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Jerry Orbach. He really was Mr. New York, and people don't realize what a great Broadway hoofer he was.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/chris-noth-is-as-old-as-old-new-york.html

alternate theme song lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGQbN7W7R2g

ok i laughed

maybe i missed this ep last time around otherwise i don't know HOW i would have not posted about it here - lupo's first at the beginning of s18 has a WITNESS STAND SUICIDE by a DR KEVORKIAN KNOCKOFF who goes out ranting about the 9TH AMENDMENT

^ watched it again, forgot until the awesome climax that that was gonna happen, truly exceptional in the annals of l&o cross-exam melodrama

Not just any fake Dr. Kevorkian but BRAD DOURIF!

hahah NOW I remember that episode.

http://tvline.com/2015/02/06/law-order-limited-series-nbc-chris-noth-sam-waterston/

10 episode mini-season of original recipe Law & Order is being talked about.

It would be wonderful to see Briscoe back as well as McCoy and that Linus fella…

Oh dear.

No Rodgers, no credibility.