…if there is a merciful God, or even a merciful television exec, he will cancel this latest Law And Order spin-off that Mr. Orbach was set to star in.
I used to enjoy that show. I thought that Briscoe (among others) was a good character and I thought that some of the stories were outrageous but nenoetheless plausible, but the show has been so incredibly overexposed that every time I hear the theme to the show or that odd two-note segue between scenes I want to throw the television out the window.
The show is so hopelessly overexposed. TNT is now the Law And Order channel. My wife loves the show, so naturally I have to watch it sometimes, usually with teeth gritted hard. I’ve seen virtually every episode, most of them twice, some even more often. Where will it all end? Law and Order: Morality Patrol, where parents tell on their kids for beating off? How about Law and Order: Moscow, with English subtitles?
If by dying Mr. Orbach has killed this upcoming show, I submit that he has achieved greatness above and beyond anything that he had previously done.
Go in peace, Mr. Orbach. And thank you for giving me some as well. I’m just sorry that it took your death to do it, because I always thought that you were a good actor, one that was far too good for such a played out show.
I tried to get into the spinoffs but gave up on them all after a little while, altho CI is tolerable at times.
I agree that the spinoff should be canned now. They just had a great show called THE JURY that was buried and killed off on Fox last season, so I’m not sure there’s so much interest. If they tried to make a show about the jury trial I was on in da Bronx last winter, I wouldn’t watch it even if they got Karen Ziemba to play me.
That about sums it up. As long as there are still plenty of people who love Law & Order (and I am one of them) then it should and will remain on the air. Believe me, when it no longer gets ratings, the network will be only to happy to show it the door. The original Law & Order is still one of my three or four favorite shows on television, and that’s not even counting the multiple reruns I watch every week.
As for the latest incarnation, how do you know you won’t like it when you haven’t even seen it yet? I am extremely saddened by Jerry Orbach’s death, but I am still willing to try a show with Candice Bergen, Bebe Neuwirth, and Carey Lowell in the cast. If it sinks, it sinks, but it might just be something that people want to watch. It would be ridiculous to cancel it at this point, and I can’t imagine Dick Wolf doing it.
Mehitabel - Law and Order: Trial by Jury is not a show about juries. It’s another Law & Order which will focus more on the law part than the order part.
The plots did get a bit silly, and I think the Benjamin Bratt seasons are a low point, but Orbach made the show watchable no matter how bad things got.
That’s an awesome idea. Well, maybe not the subtitles. But a crime drama set in freezing, corruption and vodka filled Moscow could be excellent.
I still watch many L&O reruns, but I agree the new episodes often aren’t very good. I think the show entered full decline when Angie Harmon became the new assistant D.A. That woman really hacks me off.
That would be 40 minutes of dead air time and 20 minutes of commercials.
Although, there was a murder here on Monday - the suspect has already been detained and the motive has already been established. Couldn’t strecth that out to a half hour episode if they tried.
He was pretty good in Law and Order, but I remember him best in his earlier movie roles.
The voice of Lumiere on Beauty and the Beast, the dad in Dirty Dancing. Seems as if I remember his as playing a pretty good bad guy in an earlier movie too. And wasn’t he in F/X?
The main reason I like L&O so much is Briscoe. He’s human, he’s not Supercop, and he’s not above being a smartass. That said, I haven’t seen a new episode in months, and don’t watch the nightly marathons on TNT that often, either.
So, sweetheart, you are cordially invited to cram it.
