Jesse Lee Soffer
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Jesse Lee Soffer
Damn. Halstead was cool.
Who knows, maybe he'll transfer to the NYPD and a L&O show can pick him up!
Damn. Halstead was cool.
Who knows, maybe he'll transfer to the NYPD and a L&O show can pick him up!
By all indications, Soffer is just ready to move on. It's understandable; it can get boring playing the same character for more than a decade. (And it's not like Soffer is a particularly talented actor, so his door isn't getting banged down with movie offers or anything.)
Since there is no OC thread....
Sean Jablonski (Satisfaction, Nip/Tuck, Law & Order) is the new showrunner, three months after Bryan Goluboff took over from Barry O’Brien, who was the interim showrunner that took over for Ilene Chaiken in February. That's four different showrunners in 2022, so far. Hopefully this won't cause the show to suffer the same fate that befell Designated Survivor after repeated showrunner changes.
Sean Jablonski (Satisfaction, Nip/Tuck, Law & Order) is the new showrunner, three months after Bryan Goluboff took over from Barry O’Brien, who was the interim showrunner that took over for Ilene Chaiken in February. That's four different showrunners in 2022, so far. Hopefully this won't cause the show to suffer the same fate that befell Designated Survivor after repeated showrunner changes.
SVU has taken a grip on me.
I started with the "new ones" after Stabler left but in reruns he's "back", not bad. =)
I think both are good, with or without Elliot.
And then there's the new series with Stabler that I haven't watched.... yet?
I started with the "new ones" after Stabler left but in reruns he's "back", not bad. =)
I think both are good, with or without Elliot.
And then there's the new series with Stabler that I haven't watched.... yet?
John Oliver had a piece on the Law & Order franchise in specific (and crime procedurals in general) on his show last night.
Damn. Halstead was cool.
No he wasn't. I got tired of him trying to be Voight's conscience.
Not if there's a God...
I actually didn't watch OC all last season and it stacked up on my DVR. So I finally got around to watching it. Watched the first arc, skipped the second arc, watched the third arc, so I don't know if I missed anyone important that I didn't already know. Wheatley is not an interesting villain at all.
Have to wonder though. Wouldn't everyone, including Webb, have known Stabler was UC in the first arc? And then they just accept he's dirty in the third arc?
Have to wonder though. Wouldn't everyone, including Webb, have known Stabler was UC in the first arc? And then they just accept he's dirty in the third arc?
I've got an entire season of SVU and an entire season of OC to watch. I thought it was going to happen this summer, but life happened.
Nothing about this makes sense at all, and in reality Law & Order's producers haven't understood how undercover operations work for a long time (the multi-parter that opens SVU's 14th season, for example, is utterly insipid).
In Miami Vice, that guy in fancy clothes who drives sports cars and lives on a boat with a gator who turned out to be an undercover cop, he can't possibly be the guy I know in fancy clothes who drives sports cars and lives on a boat with a gator, so I'm gonna invite him into my illegal business.
This was a very disappointing episode to begin the season. While it rolled all the characters from all three series together pretty seamlessly, they really could've used the episode to set up a bigger OC storyline where we didn't have Stabler playing some undercover role. It really felt like we didn't need to tack on the whole Putin angle.
I didn’t catch the three-parter on TV, I’ll have to watch it on Peacock when I get home. In which order should I watch the various parts?
Also, is there any particular reason Stabler’s the only detective in the entire OCCB who can go undercover?
Also, is there any particular reason Stabler’s the only detective in the entire OCCB who can go undercover?
I just don't want to lose sight of what Dick Wolf and Co. actually accomplished, which is to craft the longest single "vanilla" episode ever:
"In the criminal justice system, it takes three hours for the people to be represented by two separate yet equally important groups: Two for the Police to investigate crime, and one for the district attorneys to prosecute the offenders. These are their stories."
Mind you, the whole thing was fair, not good.
"In the criminal justice system, it takes three hours for the people to be represented by two separate yet equally important groups: Two for the Police to investigate crime, and one for the district attorneys to prosecute the offenders. These are their stories."
Mind you, the whole thing was fair, not good.
I'm kind of miffed that the writers decided to include a bomb threat, because apparently first degree murder and child trafficking didn't make the bad guys evil enough. (And bombs seem to be turning into Wolf and Co.'s go-to plot device. There were two bomb threats in the FBI premieres.)
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OC, SVU, TOS.
Christopher Meloni has the best contract with the most guaranteed air time.Also, is there any particular reason Stabler’s the only detective in the entire OCCB who can go undercover?
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Kind of funny that there are only three actors billed in the OC opening credits but the theme song still has to play all the way through. Also, the two new actors got billing ahead of the guest stars, sort of like how BSG did it for Chief, Anders, Tigh, Helo, etc., so it was a bit odd they weren't in the opening.