I think he just happened to be the only one (other than Waterston) available and willing.

Ha, totally get it. Sisto voiced one of my favorite Batmans. Ross was always my favorite but probably because Licence to Kill is one of my favorite Bond films.

I’ve read that’s why a few actors left, especially the female ADAs. Their dialogue is always the same. I always appreciated how the show built character without revealing much of their own melodrama outside of the office, but I can imagine that can get pretty boring as an actor.

No, I’d call it a continuation since several of the same characters reappear and it’s intended to be the same narrative universe.

Roache probably moved on, Network TV schedule is brutal. I definitely liked him over Dancy, who is barely different than his Will Graham character on Hannibal. He always got points for me for being Batman’s dad, but I just thought he was a little too like Jack McCoy in tone at first. The revolving door of characters…

Ha, fair enough. I thought her character was a step up from Borgia, a bit of a throwback to Jamie Ross, but I agree the writing seemed to serve the plot during that period and was never consistent to its characters*. I vaguely remember there was an episode where she was forced to be the defense attorney and they did…

Cutter was too much Jack McCoy 2.0. He mellowed over time, but that could have been a great time to bring in a female lead attorney (though they probably avoided that after the reception to Detective Cassady).

He would often get the Briscoe cold open one-liners and deliver them so super serious they’d be total groaners.

No, not like this, it was clearly a point the writers wanted to make.

I won’t disagree about SVU, it’s absolute trash. The original series did feature more moral ambiguity of investigations and prosecutions, albeit, not always from the main cast.

I didn’t dislike Anderson, I just thought he took the role too seriously. He and Sisto never figured out who was the straight man.

you can practically see the lights and boom mic on the court room set.

I always found it engaging and sound enough. I’ve gone back and rewatched seasons from the mid-1990s and you have huge chunks of the back-half of the show devoted to presenting tangled complicated legal issues (arguing to the NY Supreme Court, etc) that would never happen on network TV today.

I thought the original run started to lose its way during those last 2 seasons of the original run. The writing was getting a little worse, the discovery cold opens were sometimes dropped, and Anthony Anderson never really understood the assignment.

I love original Law & Order and it’s been painful to witness how bad the resurrected production has been. I couldn’t watch it. The original often played loose with jurisprudence, but still attempted to take a deep dive into legal quandaries. And even though the show mostly ignored personal melodrama, each character…

Yeah I don’t get why Shazam 2 became a punching bag here, it’s clearly stepping in to take Flash’s blows. I actually mildly enjoyed Shazam 2, while watching The Flash felt like getting choked in a Icelandic bar.

Maybe I’ll give it another watch someday, without any expectations and less distracted by the heavy-handed easter eggs. But it just felt like such a patchwork quilt of a movie with no focus.

I watched Many Saints after re-watching the entire series. I thought it was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I wanted to like it, but I got 90 minutes into it and was still waiting for the story to begin. It falls into the prequel trap of “remember this?” fan service in the worst way. If you watched it on its…

Also, I always thought it was a hard sell on Tony getting shot in that scene because the families had both reconciled. So who is shooting Tony in front of his entire family?

Funny I didn’t see any Kevin Finnerty episodes...