Wednesday, February 18 2009
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - The Eighth Year
SVU is stronger than the original show in that it lets you into the lives of the detectives.
Thursday, October 11 2007
Part 4 - Feasts from the Fringe
Cable created supply where there was little or no demand. Out of the myriad of subject specific programming, a few gemstones managed to shine.
Thursday, January 11 2007
Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006
From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.
Tuesday, September 27 2005
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit / Law & Order
Lynda Carter's villain embodies Cold War momism refitted for the war on terror. The conflagration is inspired.
Wednesday, October 13 2004
Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Season 5
It frequently expanded cop-show boundaries, occasionally gave in to suits in search or ratings, and most often, surprised fans and detractors alike.
Monday, October 4 2004
Law & Order / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit / Law & Order: Criminal Intent
D'Onofrio plays Goren superbly, as a jittery autodidact so deeply aware of his own psychological fragility that he has simply abandoned any emotional life outside his own insights into the motivations of major criminals.
Monday, July 26 2004
Homicide Life on the Street: The Complete Season 4
Unlike most TV fare, especially cop shows, Homicide concerns itself with details and asides that don't always come together into thematic wholes.
Monday, March 22 2004
Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Third Season
Homicide's third season focuses increasingly on tensions among the detectives, as they endure increasingly personal devastations, over more linear storylines and more sensational murder mysteries.
Monday, March 15 2004
Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
Homicide lays out an utterly compelling and occasionally oblique anti-cop-show premise.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Part of the problem is that the 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' writers haven't given Ice T much to do: he's Munch's Yes Man, and it doesn't become him.
