Series · Peacock · 1990
Pass it on
Law & Order
55Watch it awake.
A procedure that still believes a case should reach a court. The formula is the point.
The review
The show's structure is its argument. The police half is the street. The legal half is the republic doing the slower thing. It is often glib, and the ripped-from-the-headline plots age badly. Under the glibness is a picture almost nobody else bothers to shoot: a charge, a defense, a judge, and a record.
You can watch an episode and be done. That is a virtue in a shelf built to hold you. Do not confuse a tidy hour with justice. Do notice that the show thinks the courtroom is where the story is supposed to end, not the alley.
Journal
Keep Law & Order in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Wire
64 instead of 55
The Wire is still a crime show, and it scores 64 instead of 55. What you gain is courage: Individuals risk the career.
The eight
- 7Industry
Detectives and prosecutors have a job with steps. The steps are the show.
- 3Household
Victims have families. The families are usually a scene.
- 3Piety
The law is the nearest thing to a creed, and it is argued, not revered.
- 5Courage
The courage is procedural: taking a case you might lose.
- 8Republic
A court is the institution. The show, at its best, serves it.
- 6Temperance
The crimes are ugly and then finished. It does not ask you to live in them.
- 7Truth
Two sides get a speech. The verdict is not a feeling.
- 5Stewardship
A closed case is a record. The next episode does not pretend otherwise.
Where to watch
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