Law and Order: Search and Destroy

is that series even still running or did i just imagine it was cancelled because i stopped watching its lame ass

It seems like Stone Jr. will be joining the cast, at least for a while, because the most recent ADA literally KILLED A BABY tonight, got acquitted, then resigned.

: O

lBARBA KILLED A BABY???????

omg have not felt the need to immediately catch up for a while

the Benson drama is theoretically more stressing because HER CHILD but the meta-drama hasn’t had a great wtf quotient since the monkey-basketball and “is it because I’m a lesbian?!”

Barba’s slow turn into public defender via mistrial has been fun

this is the last season right? or do they know?

i figured i would just wait and catch up in an abject binge

watching this now

Sam Waterston really looked and sounded old. God, I feel old.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cc/40/7f/cc407fd7a7bc103d8d59647f3ee8ed72--steven-hill-law-and-order.jpg

you're tellin me about old

RIP :(

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/arts/television/steven-hill-trailblazing-tv-star-dies-at-94.html

Catch my guest spot on @nbcsvu tomorrow night with @Mariska and @FINALLEVEL. I object to you not watchin'. pic.twitter.com/ihIu2qk0yt

— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) May 8, 2018

:o

Shout out to sayin' "whatnot", " what have you" and " so forth" and whatnot, what have you and so forth.

— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) April 29, 2014

https://deadline.com/2018/09/law-order-hate-crimes-series-nbc-dick-wolf-warren-leight-1202456899/

As Law & Order: SVU is heading into its record-tying 20th season, NBC is expanding the Law & Order franchise with a 13-episode order to Law & Order: Hate Crimes, from Law & Order boss Dick Wolf.

Co-created with one of Wolf’s top lieutenants, former Law & Order: SVU showrunner Warren Leight, the latest Law & Order installment is based on New York’s actual Hate Crimes Task Force, the second oldest bias-based task force in the U.S. The unit, which pledges to uphold a zero tolerance policy against discrimination of any kind, works under the NYPD’s real Special Victims Unit and often borrows SVU’s detectives to assist in their investigations.

The new Law & Order series will be introduced as a planted spinoff from SVU, with the first incarnation of the new unit appearing in the latter part of the upcoming season of the Mariska Hargitay-starring series.

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

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:28 PM (five years ago)

he had cancer like almost the whole time he was on the show!

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

― j., Thursday, March 7, 2013 5:30 AM (five years ago)

no

they basically do it for the first few seasons, which also usually start with beat cops jibber jabbering until there's an incident or a cry for help (sometimes, they do it like this, but with no live victim), and the last few, which use more of a mix of ordinary-sitch conversation or scenes previewing the issues around the crime but in such a way as to show the live victim

i've been going through season 10 and just hit "mega" which is an outrageously good l&o episode/episode of television

michael mckean AND annette o'toole

mega is in my top 10

does california have more stringent requirements to pass probable cause standards before proceeding to trial? they keep doing separate courtroom scenes for that on LOLA, like it's standard.

― j., Thursday, March 2, 2017 1:10 AM (two years ago)

thanks to the mueller report i now have an answer to my question!!! i think

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_(formal_criminal_charge)

Because the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution expressly creates a constitutional right to be indicted by a grand jury, the information is used in federal criminal procedure only when a defendant voluntarily pleads guilty (often as part of a plea bargain) and waives the right to an indictment.[11]

However, the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury indictment does not apply against the state governments because the grand jury provision has not been incorporated against the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. Thus, the information has always been the dominant charging document in the western states, where extremely dispersed population distribution during the American frontier era made it difficult to select and convene petit juries to hold trials. In that era, convening even larger grand juries just to indict criminals was seen as an unnecessary extravagance.

In western states, district attorneys are authorized by statute to charge criminal suspects by filing informations. The defendant is then entitled to challenge the information at a preliminary hearing, during which the prosecution must establish to the judge's satisfaction that probable cause exists to bind over the defendant until trial. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of this procedure in Hurtado v. California (1886).

The grand jury is still available in the states where informations are used, but it is usually used only for issuing indictments for certain types of crimes or for certain types of anti-corruption investigations.

Is L&O:LA streaming anywhere? It came about during a rare L&O hiatus in my life

improbably enough, you can actually see it on nbc.com

panicked teacher: "these are good kids!"
briscoe: "so were leopold and loeb"

ok but were they lennie, WERE they?

been watching the original on my streaming tv subscription because I think it's *still* not streaming anywhere else in the US

once it gets into the groove, the original series has some amazing seasons in the early seasons. Briscoe and Logan might be the prime years?

they never ever seem to repeat S1-5 in the UK*, i've only seen noth in the spin-offs (does he play the same character? i never watch the spin-offs, they're all bad not good)

no moriarty or dzundza or robinette either :(

*i think those series showed on BBC originally, maybe they still have the rights to them

lol i mean brooks, robinette is the character name

those are all in the first four years so there's no 'either' about it

logan is the same logan; after the tv movie which is about him trying to solve his way back to manhattan he kicks around a while longer offscreen before solving his way into major cases due to some connection an investigation has to his girlfriend or something

either
/ˈʌɪðə,ˈiːðə/

CONJUNCTION & ADVERB
1: Used before the first of two (or occasionally more) given alternatives (the other being introduced by ‘or’)
‘either I accompany you to your room or I wait here’
‘available in either black or white’

2: adverb, with negative, used to indicate a similarity or link with a statement just made
‘You don't like him, do you? I don't either’
‘it won't do any harm, but won't really help either’

Noth reappears in Criminal Intent much later, but it’s a psychological investigation show with a different tone. I think they bounced around what day/time it was at on broadcast tv then shoved it on to cable. Vincent D’Onofrio (!) and Kathryn Erbe mostly star, although they both get cycled out for reasons. Other leads include Jeff Goldblum and Alicia Witt, which is wild considering they seemed to give the series a lot less consideration compared to other shows

mark did you have your name legally changed so the s stands for 'salty'

during noth's run they also started insanely alternating leads and iirc didn't really try that much to make noth's episodes tonally consistent with d'onofrio's schtick

We bingerewatched CI a while ago and its weird, despite evidence in this very thread that I used to watch it regularly, I did not recall a single episode on rewatch. My brains! :(

(we're now doing OG from season 1, which Id never seen before now. Seems so dated and stiff compared to later stuff)

watched some CI last night and I'd forgotten how all of the criminals come off as vaguely reptilian

Many years ago I had a theory about how each L&O had an overriding political philosophy:

L&O - Marxist (poor people are often forced into desperate acts of criminality, but the rich are the true villains)
L&O: SVU - Schopenhauer (life is pain)
L&O: CI - Nietzsche (some people are smarter than/superior to others, it is up to the superman detective to be smarter than/superior to his criminal adversaries)

Ha. I like it!

"i won't have this trial turned into a circus!"

"enough of your treacly mea culpas"

watching season 13 and I've got to say I miss my stabler

This is as good a time as any to tell you that my dog sings along to the Law & Order theme song every time he hears it pic.twitter.com/4HNVPWrzmE

— Peter Schultz (@pete_schultz) March 19, 2020

lol

https://deadline.com/2020/03/christopher-meloni-returns-new-dick-wolf-series-elliot-stabler-nbc-law-order-svu-1202896323/

Whaaaat

Stoked

"in the process of determining a verdict, lives often hang in the balance"

comments about how people underestimate how unhinged Stabler was seem to forget the Dick Wolf Chicago shows, where it's revealed that some Good Cops are going to get in trouble because they like to torture people for information and confessions, but their methods got some results

can't speak to the fire and hospital shows attached to that spinoff other than the crossovers because it's obvious they concentrated all the casting and writing on the cop show

Wooo Gary Busey

via voodoo chili, this made me think of maura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOxAlfvpQmI

i can’t watch this show anymore :( oh well

I’m watching it right now

one of the few episodes where Van Buren leaves the office because a case involves someone she knows and she’s just relentless

yeah all the stuff this summer just curdled it for me

I'm going to sound like I've been living under a rock but what was it specifically that ruined this for you? I feel like we've been living in such a hellscape the past six months anyway

It first aired 30 years ago today.

blam blam

More the law than the order I would imagine