Criminal Intent finest of Law & Order series
Windsor Star, 1.24.09
by Alex Strachan
If all you knew about New York was what you learned from watching Law & Order and its innumerable spinoffs, you could be forgiven for wondering how there could possibly be any people left in that city, what with all the murders in the shows.
Tonight, CTV is handing off much of its prime time schedule to repeats of the least known, but in some ways most intriguing shows, in the Law & Order universe, Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
That's the spinoff originally developed by Montreal native and McGill alum Rene Balcer, who is now the supervising producer, head writer and de facto showrunner of the original Law & Order -- or "the mother ship," as creator Dick Wolf likes to call it.
Balcer originally conceived Law & Order: Criminal Intent as a Columbo-esque reverse on the standard Law & Order formula. Criminal Intent was designed to be a study in criminal psychology rather than a straight murder mystery. Who commits the crime isn't as important as why.
The fun -- if you can call it that -- is in watching Vincent D'Onofrio's Det. Robert Goren and, in more recent seasons, Chris Noth's Det. Mike Logan, trap the perpetrator in a game of cat-and-mouse. Full article
Thanks to StefanL, Majorcase-ci.com
posted by thereel @ 3:49 PM
5 Comments:
"The Windsor Star" has very, very good taste.
Made me proud to be Canadian when I read this article. FINALLY a column that shows respect for the great show that LOCI is and one that also recognizes Vincent's incredible acting talent. Woo hoo!!!
Obviously the writer is a person of quality and high intelligence!
Lovely to read such positive comments. I don't like Noth, though, so I'd rather they'd talked of Erbe. But the men who cast the shows and write the articles are like the visitors to the zoo, who call evey animal "he". How on earth do they think the baby animals come along!
Feminist? Moi? You'd better believe it!
I've always liked Canada!
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