Re: Law & Order
I never thought about it in these terms before, but I’m a L&O addict. According to this article, it’s one of the symptoms of L&O addiction.
I rarely catch new episodes. I like my L&O in two or three-hour blocks, so I like to watch reruns, even reruns I’ve seen before. I have my favorite characters and actors, like even though I really liked Dann Florek as Capt. Donald Cragen, S. Epatha Merkerson is my favorite as Lt. Anita Van Buren. I harbor a not-so-secret crush on the catlike frequent guest star Mark Margolis, and the day ADA Claire Kincaid died in that car accident, I couldn’t watch for a week.
I really couldn’t tell you why I’m so drawn in by the show. It’s not something I sit around thinking about all day, or discussing at the water cooler. It’s a personal thing.
It could be the way they rapid-fire subplots at you, or the way sometimes things come out satisfactorily, and sometimes they don’t. Maybe it’s the way everyone acts so professionally, with their personal problems only sometimes filtering down through their professional demeanors; with NYPD Blue (another show I watch), for instance, those people hardly do any police work as far as I can tell. They mostly sit around the locker room working out their problems.
Whatever it is, I’m sure I’m not the only one. L&O has more simultaneous spinoffs than anything else on TV ever has, trumping even Star Trek. One of my favorite riffs on this was in Modern Humorist a couple of years ago: ”Law & Order: Law & Order - Filmed on the set of the hit NBC show ‘Law & Order,’ ‘Law & Order: Law & Order’ follows the dedicated men and women who patrol the sets of the police drama ‘Law & Order’ and protect the cast and crew. In the series premiere, sparks fly when a groggy Jerry Orbach hollers, ‘Who do you have to blow to get a cup of coffee around here?’”
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