Two Ladies & Their TVs

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Law & Order: CI and interrogations

Sunday morning, time for warming up before I get down to writing, so I'll talk a little about the ten minutes I saw last night of CI.  I was flipping around and saw that it was rerunning on USA, so I decided, "What the hell-- wonder what Logan's like now?"  I've been reading very good reviews about the addition of Chris Noth and Annabella Sciorra to the cast, and my curiosity was piqued.

 

I didn't see enough to form a good opinion, but what I did see was interesting.  Back in the first season of L&O, Logan talked about his mother, the drunk, what she was like and what she used to do.  So it was a nice bit of continuity to see Logan talking to a perp about it in this ep.  Bit surprising though, as L&O so eschewed anything personal like that most of the time; rare was it to see Logan, or anyone, allowed to open up like that (and the only reason he spoke about it in the first season was because of the horrible case they were working on).

I think I’ll give the show a try—if I remember it’s on.  The first five seasons of L&O have some of the best eps ever in the series, true classics.  I just wonder what they’re going to do with the character.  It seems to me, from reviews and commercials I’ve seen, that D’Onofrio’s interrogation style is a lot different, so I wonder what they’re going to try to force Logan to act like.  He’s laid back, and frankly, although I loved the character, I didn’t think he was the best interrogator.  When he got riled up, it just wasn’t… plausible.

 

Out of all the L&O detectives I’ve seen, I think, perp abuse notwithstanding, Stabler’s the best hands-down when it comes to interrogations.  It’s more a testament to Meloni’s acting chops that he’s able to pull it off convincingly; the menacing “bad-cop”, and when he gets into it, I really enjoy watching.  In contrast, whenever Benson tries to pull off the same, I laugh.

 

Stabler would’ve worked well on Homicide: Life on the Streets.  I don’t think anyone who visits this blog watched it, and I got hooked on it when it was in reruns well into its run, but no one can hold a candle to these detectives in the interrogation room: “The Box”.  The writing, the actors, it was mastery.  Some of the best moments of the series were in The Box.

 

A bit of “six degrees” here (and sort of random): D’Onofrio was on the episode of H:LotS (“Subway”) that won the show the Peabody Award; playing a man who was pushed in front of a subway train, yet got caught so that half his body was hanging over the platform, the other half only held on by the train.  It was a tense, horrifying, sad episode, and truly memorable.

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