Sport of Kings
By Hank 74
Joe-10/10
Falco-10/10
Van Buren-8/10
Jack-10/10
Borgia-9/10
Arthur-8/10
Supporting Cast-8/10
Plot-9/10
Performance-8/10
Value-7/10
Total-87/100
Notes:
Timely, with the Kentucky Derby
coming up this Saturday.
This had the likings of the Dennis
Kozlowski case, which is being retried BTW for real, with all the large gifts
and lavish expenses taken by him for supposedly puffing up the pension
fund. Now the big question is who killed him in the end.
I liked the ending though. I
always like it how they go away from the usual routine of the jury finding
someone guilty and going to something unusual or leave it to an open ended
question. That is something which needs to be done more often, or leave
it to a jury being hung. As a general idea, how about in a future trial
on L&O, the jury is hung and then it carries over as a crossover on TBJ
with the new jury figuring out the case.
The trainer played by Murphy Guyer,
a veteran L&O repeat offender, looked a lot like Dabney Coleman about 20
years ago. I also thought Varek in the end was a repeat offender from a
season 4 ep, "Snatched." He also looked like the creepy rapist
from the SVU/TBJ crossover last night.
In any case, this was for the most
part an average ep which had some pluses and minuses. I doubt it though
they will follow through on in down the road. Finally, great ending with
Joe and Falco having the last scene. Having said that though, this would
have been a perfect storyline for the great Lennie/Ed duo.