Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-10-18 (Friday)

On Oct 19, 2024 at 8:08:29 AM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

I watched:
 
Law & Order - "Big Brother" - Riley's low life brother shows up as the
key witness in a murder case but because of his strong belief in honor
among thieves, he refuses to testify.  This was a ridiculous episode and
the brother looked a little too much like the victim for my tastes.  I
had to rewind the episode back to make sure who was who.

This episode was just bad all around. Jimmy Olson needed to pull Riley aside
and slap some sense into him. Just because you're related to someone doesn't
mean you bail them out of every constant mess they make of their lives.

Courtroom Absurdity of the Week: Starbuck has the wife of the murder victim on
the stand who has testified that the watch found in the defendant's desk was
her husband's watch. Starbuck starts going on about how many Rolexes were
manufactured by the company and how many of that model were sold that year.
And of course Price doesn't object, even though those are all facts that have
to be proven, not just stated by the defense lawyer. If Starbuck wanted the
jury to know that 1200 Rolexes of that exact same make and model were sold in
New York in 2024, then she'd have to call someone from the Rolex company to
testify to those facts. She can't just assert them herself in front of the
jury.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit -
"Divide and Conquer" - Kelli Giddish returns as Sergeant Amanda Rollins
for what I'm guessing is a backdoor pilot to help SVU track down an
international  gang of robbers.  I honestly can't figure out what the
deal is with Giddish.  Was she fired, did she quit, was her leaving
mutual or what?  But she keeps coming back in what appears to be setups
for her own spin off show, but if that's the case why hasn't it been
announced yet?  And I completely forgot she's supposed to be married to
the DA, seeing as how she's never mentioned.

I'm amused how Benson is now not just a cop, but a therapist for every
victim.

In this episode, we have the rape victim's friend find her drowning her
sorrows at a bar and what does she do? She calls Benson. I mean, think about
that. You find your friend getting drunk at a bar and you call the cops. How
is this in any way a police matter. And Benson, who's now a captain and
running an entire division drops everything in the middle of the work day to
go and be cloyingly empathetic to a girl getting drunk in a bar.