<< I look forward
to the show next week, which is more than I can say for most
of the
post-Andre Braugher shows.
>>
Absolutely. While the show is full of "uggghhh" subplots like
Falsone and his
girlfriend-detective doing the cutesy Ricky Ricardo-Lucille
Ball routine, it's
also still capable of chilling scenes. Such a scene is when
Kellerman is
questioning the teenager accused of murdering her own newborn
and comes to the
realization that this kid is guilty. Powerful scenes like
these are few and
far between on TV these days (I'd put Rick Schroeder's final
scene in NYPD
BLUE last week up there too). I would agree, too, that the
Mahoney storyline
had run its course, but not that Diamond had become anoying.
I thought his
acting in the last half of the season was much better than
any of his co-
workers (even Braugher, who won an Emmy for the wrong
season). Kellerman's
paranoia and breakdown was the glue that kept the show
together in a season
that saw so much bad writing and embarrassing
sub-plots.
Peter Enfantino
deadline press
bare*bones
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