The COO of a major tech company is found murdered in Central Park. Price and Maroun work to untangle a web of deceit to expose a cunning narcissist.The COO of a major tech company is found murdered in Central Park. Price and Maroun work to untangle a web of deceit to expose a cunning narcissist.The COO of a major tech company is found murdered in Central Park. Price and Maroun work to untangle a web of deceit to expose a cunning narcissist.
George R. Sheffey
- Jack Morley
- (as George Sheffey)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the 2021-2022 Theranos fraud scandal involving Elizabeth Holmes. Sam Waterston (DA Jack McCoy) would later play a supporting role in The Dropout (2022), a drama about the scandal itself.
- GoofsWhen McCoy is putting on his coat in his office, the camera shot lingers showing a Michigan School of Law diploma in his name. His long-standing character arc has repeatedly shown he graduated from NYU Law and was published in the NYU Law Review.
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Predictable, Formulaic, Fake-Looking Sets
Other reviewers captured most of what is wrong with this show's revival. The writing could be a lot better; the writers and the set designers should be required to watch the first two seasons of the original show.
In the original seasons, the courts were always busy, with real-appearing people wandering around on their own business and DA offices were usually piled high with paper. The sets in the revived show look like they were designed by L. A. people who never came within 3,000 miles of a New York precinct station or courtroom.
Sam Waterston as DA is a bad mistake. At 82 (and looking it), he is way overdue for retirement. His primary function seems to be to listen to his ADA, tell him a conviction will be difficult, then go ahead. Period. Steven Hill in the first few seasons was far more involved and far more realistic.
One egregious moment is purely due to poor writers, where Detective Cosgrove (Donovan) expresses surprise that his partner Detective Bernard (Anderson) would know anything about tennis. When Bernard asks why Cosgrove is surprised, Cosgrove says "Because you're..." and seemingly bites his tongue before adding the word "black". Why would script writers even let us think that is what Cosgrove was thinking? Has he never heard of Venus & Serena Williams, two of the best tennis players who ever lived? (And who, if memory serves, happen to be black?) How could one possibly believe black people would not be aware of the Williams sisters?
On the plus side, Odelya Halevi is delicious, somewhat exotic eye-candy. But the show needs more than eye-candy to remain watchable.
In the original seasons, the courts were always busy, with real-appearing people wandering around on their own business and DA offices were usually piled high with paper. The sets in the revived show look like they were designed by L. A. people who never came within 3,000 miles of a New York precinct station or courtroom.
Sam Waterston as DA is a bad mistake. At 82 (and looking it), he is way overdue for retirement. His primary function seems to be to listen to his ADA, tell him a conviction will be difficult, then go ahead. Period. Steven Hill in the first few seasons was far more involved and far more realistic.
One egregious moment is purely due to poor writers, where Detective Cosgrove (Donovan) expresses surprise that his partner Detective Bernard (Anderson) would know anything about tennis. When Bernard asks why Cosgrove is surprised, Cosgrove says "Because you're..." and seemingly bites his tongue before adding the word "black". Why would script writers even let us think that is what Cosgrove was thinking? Has he never heard of Venus & Serena Williams, two of the best tennis players who ever lived? (And who, if memory serves, happen to be black?) How could one possibly believe black people would not be aware of the Williams sisters?
On the plus side, Odelya Halevi is delicious, somewhat exotic eye-candy. But the show needs more than eye-candy to remain watchable.
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- Bonz99
- Aug 26, 2022
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