Annie Parisse, who plays Alexandra Borgia, will be leaving at the end of the season.
Give Jack a male assistant for a change, will ya, Mr. Wolf? Before Claire, he only had three female assistants. Making up for lost time?
Since they can’t bring Claire back from the dead, maybe Jamie will come back? I even like the interaction between Jack and Abby. Serena was pointless, and Alex didn’t get up to speed either.
I wonder if she’s leaving because she’s a terrible actress?
Is it because she’s a lesbian? 
They have gone down hill since Abby, haven’t they? I rank Claire and Jamie as tops, followed by Abby, then the rest don’t really count.
I think a hotshot young male attorney, fresh out of law school, gunning for Jack’s job, would be good, but that would mess up the gender balance and they won’t do it.
They missed the chance to do a double switch when they had an open lawyer slot and an open detective slot. They could have paired Green with a woman and given McCoy a male to work with.
Green with a woman would have been too much like SVU. And speaking of which…who else is totally squicked out at the thought of Stabler and Benson in anything other than a professional relationship? The good thing about L&O was if there was any hankypanky, they kept it out of the office and focused on the cases, not the relationships.
Thus keeping it from becoming a prime-time soap opera like ER did. Do you remember the first couple of seasons of ER, the characters didn’t really interact all that much, especially socially/romantically. It was just a twitchy, fast paced, jargon-heavy hospital show.
I gave up on ER years ago. I tried again recently, but when I found myself checking the clock to see how much time was left I realized it was time to bid adios.
I do like the idea of Stabler and Benson together, but Idefinitely agree it should be kept off the show.
As for the original L&O, I just can’t make myself care anymore. 
She’s probably sick and tired of McCoy’s attitude. Self-righteous prick.
Whatever you do, thou shalt not dis the Jack. 
(BTW, why is TNT showing the newer episodes? I’d like to see an older one, with Stone and Greavy and Logan and Cragin once in a while.)
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Whatever you do, thou shalt not dis the Jack.
Yeah! Do not dis the Jack!
But I do have to ask
[Jack McCoy] HOW MANY assistant D.A.s do you NEEEED, MR. McCoy? Four? Five? Where does it end? [/Jack McCoy]
Seriously, what’s up with the constant cast changes? Do they sign these actesses to one season contracts and wait and see how the ratings are, or do you think there’s something inherantly wicked about old Sam that drives them away?
They did, but it was more subtle and they had lives off camera. Mark & Doug had their very solid friendship. Mark was also married to a person who was not a regular cast member and was not at the hospital all the damn time. Doug & Carol were on again, off again and when they were off, they were with other people who were not at the hospital (or in the ER) all the time. Susan (btw, what happened to Susan) had an off camera life and people in it (like her sister) who weren’t at the hospital all the time. ER’s world has gotten very, very, very small compared to what it was in those first seasons.
I just really, really don’t like the new cop. So, I can’t watch new L&O’s (but I can watch and rewatch and rewatch the reruns). I like that their lives stayed mostly off camera and the show was about the crime. SVU is making a mistake in focusing in too much on the people instead of the story.
She left the show when IRL she moved to be with her husband in NYC. That contract kept her from working on other TV shows. The character came back to the show a few years ago, was pressured to publish in order to get ahead at the Hospital, got pregnant by emergency nurse Donal Logue, had the baby and has moved to another Midwest city.
I don’t like Stabler and Benson as anything other than good friends (maybe he can somehow salvage his marriage) but her maternity break ushers in Anthony Anderson as a guest star. Cool down period.
Last time we saw Jamie, she was in loads of ethical trouble … she might not even be a lawyer anymore. (Though I would love to see her come back.)
She appeared on one or two episodes of L&O: Trial by Jury as a judge. Unlikely she’ll return as an ADA, but then all kinds of strange things happen in the TV world. (eg, Stephanie March).
I despised Serena to the point where I don’t watch the re-runs if it’s an episode in which she’s featured. Her voice, her frog-like face and that prissy demeanor a bad acting coach must have told her was “lawyer-like” combined to make a truly nauseating character.
Claire, of course, was my favorite, and Jamie was at least believable in the part, but Serena was like a watching a Weather Bunny play anattorney for an office skit.