Choice of Evils
By Hank 74
Joe-9/10
Ed-10/10
VB-9/10
Jack-10/10
Borgia-9/10
Arthur-8/10
Support-8/10
Plot-7/10
Performance-8/10
Value-7/10
Total-85/100
Notes:
Back from
the Olympics. I hope to have given a better score than some of the figure
skating judges.
A lot of
discussion has been mentioned here about the comparison to "Mother's
Day." That does make sense, but I would also like to bring up to a
comparison with season 4's "Born Bad" whereby Stone had to diffuse
the idea that a bad chromosome was the reason why a teen killed another
one. That's what the mother in this ep tonight seemed to argue.
That her son was doomed from birth and she had to kill him when the time was
right.
Looking
back at both of those ep with tonight's, I can only say that this one seemed to
be a carbon copy that didn't present anything new or different from the
past. When something appears to be very similar to one or two eps from
the past, it's very likely that it will be in trouble. I gave this one an
average grade since I didn't see anything new that would make it stand
out. The first half was pretty good. The second half bogged
down. I did like though having Olivet in more often to analyze these
cases.
Wasn't
Molly Price, the guest actress tonight, the same one who was on "Third
Watch" a few years back? She was a guest star on L&O way back in
season 2. Since her TW days, she has certainly changed and trimmed down a
bit.