Season 11 Review
By Hank 74
Ego
Lennie-9/10
Ed-9/10
Van Buren-8/10
Jack-9/10
Abby-8/10
Nora-8/10
Semis-9/10
Guests-10/10
Plot-8/10
Performance-7/10
Total Grade-85/100
Notes:
I'll be brief on this one. I wasn't too
enthusiastic about it. It seemed like another typical lover's quarrel between
boss and employee whereby it was only tweaked over issues of violence,
jealousy, and psychotic behavior. I think you could have taken any recent
episode of L&O and just change a few things to supposedly make this unique.
This was really the first time where the NYS attorney general's office has been
portrayed in this much detail. I only am wondering what did Nora mean by this
man potentially heading the criminal division.
As to Alec Conroy himself, he was more creepier than Judge Thayer in
"Censure" or Phillip Swann in "American Dream." Good thing
he got 20 years, but to me the ending was the problem.
It seemed to be going very well, on a decent pace and then turned up with the
defense attorney bringing up the claim the widowed girlfriend might have killed
the woman. I wanted to see more of this being played out. Perhaps having Lennie
and Ed do a late investigation about this. That would have made this ep more
intriguing.
What also disappointed me was not seeing Conroy taking the stand and explaining
his conduct. I wanted to see this so called legal mind, NBC's words, go up
against Jack. This case should have ended up in the hands of the jury, not some
babble about control and dominance as the explination for killing someone.
Great to see another of my favorite judges back though in Judge Callahan. Now
we need to have Mooney, Barry, and Quinn before another round with Judge
Wright.
But the bottom line is that the characters had potential along with the AG
angle. I only wished they wouldn't have done another love triangle, or in this
case square, and I certainly would have loved a more intense ending with
fireworks from both sides. Instead we got a small bang.