To be fair, the Snyder-verse movies do contain what I guess Zack Snyder considers to be “jokes,” but they’re more of the “what if Jimmy Olsen got his brains blown out in the opening scene” and “ha ha Lex gave pee pee to the mean politician lady” variety.

Joker: I’m gonna make this pencil disappear.

The diversion Joker uses to force a re-route on Dent’s convoy involves using a fire truck...that’s on fire.  Probably my fave Nolan joke.

Im shocked at the lack of Sam and Diane in this list. They may be a cliche now, but they're the couple that the cliche was named after for a reason.

“overstuffed and exhausting”

it’s not like a fun cameo.

I’ve mentioned this in the comments of other articles but there’s a frustrating self-inflicted wound in the TV industry right now of mediocre and bad staff writers because for the last 15 years or so showrunners and executives have been telling everyone that burgeoning staffers don’t need to write TV specs. They’ve…

“I did get wind of how Borgia died though and that was fucked up”

As you can see I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about Rubirosa. lol I do remember that episode and it was dumb as hell. As a lawyer I have to suspend disbelief a lot even when the show is at its best, but in those later seasons it got really hard. I did like Ross, though. I didn’t really watch the Borgia seasons. Not…

Stephen Hill, even in his last season, didn’t seemingly struggle to emit dialogue like Waterston does now.

Cragen is one of the biggest patsy bosses I’ve ever seen, especially his SVU years. He specifically tells Stabler and Benson to NOT do things—-and then they pretty much always go ahead and do those things anyways.

I liked her fine in The Practice but I didn’t find her compelling at all here. She had none of the charm or humanity of Van Buren or Cragen. I think the bad writing just sabotaged everyone. Some actors can elevate bad writing. These actors didn’t find a way to, at least in the episodes I watched.

Anderson was obviously cast to be the jokester, but it seems he didn't want to be playing yet another comic relief character. So he insisted on being over serious and it just didn't work.

Yeah, but you’d at least get some lip service (“Overruled, but be careful, Mr. McCoy, you’re on a very short leash.”) They’re just letting lawyers and witnesses monologue now, and then afterwards the DAs rehash the evidence and restate what they need to prove for the audience members who’ve been looking at their…

“ The sole bright spot has been Odelya Halevi as the Lebanese millennial ADA who doesn’t mind going insubordinate.”

recapture a Lenny Briscoe-type seen-it-all wisecracker

Something that used to be good, but now suffers from poor writing. And yet people still give it the time of day?

All of this. Also the look of the show going digital really makes it look off vs the old gritty film look.

I’m not a fan of Manheim’s either so the reboot held little interest for me from the beginning, despite also being a big fan of the original.  A shame to hear they wasted Donovan.

I’m under 60 by 11 months. Watch every week.