Your guys's reaction to the Law & Order episode is typical of people who haven't watched much L&O in the past.
You see an episode that has one or two elements that have been "ripped from the headlines," you assume that the show is more-or-less supposed to be a dramatic reenactment of actual events, and then get annoyed when it isn't.
Your guys's reaction to the Law & Order episode is typical of people who haven't watched much L&O in the past.
You see an episode that has one or two elements that have been "ripped from the headlines," you assume that the show is more-or-less supposed to be a dramatic reenactment of actual events, and then get annoyed when it isn't.
But that has never been the deal with L&O. The deal has always been that they take a high-level aspect of a news story and use that as a jumping-off point to create something that's 99% fictional and unrelated to anything that actually happened.
I understand the instinct to compare the episode to actual events but that's not what's going on.
Your guys's reaction to the Law & Order episode is typical of people who haven't watched much L&O in the past.
You see an episode that has one or two elements that have been "ripped from the headlines," you assume that the show is more-or-less supposed to be a dramatic reenactment of actual events, and then get annoyed when it isn't.
But that has never been the deal with L&O. The deal has always been that they take a high-level aspect of a news story and use that as a jumping-off point to create something that's 99% fictional and unrelated to anything that actually happened.
I understand the instinct to compare the episode to actual events but that's not what's going on.