Death to CBS
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20 years ago, i used to watch Law & Order in the afternoons. i fuckin' loved the little post-resolution coda where adam schiff (or occasionally an underling) made some pithy comment. it would make me late to class if i stayed for it, but i stayed for it almost every time.
they had an episode one time where, after a seemingly innocuous death of an old man leads the investigation into learning about Operation Condor, the DA went after a retired Chilean colonel living in NYC for an old murder that was orchestrated in NY between some CIA goon and the Pinochet henchman. it becomes a political mess with the crusty old DA being like "eat me, Feds, he's a murderer" (S10 - E24: Vaya Con Dios).
the show was generally OK as far as TV police procedurals go. it wasn't critical or realistic like The Wire, so it certainly functioned as propaganda to convince people that our justice system operates in good faith.
all the spin off franchises seem to be more and more awful. i watched an episode of the newest "Organized Crime" and it was so boring i thought i was having a stroke. i thought it would be a procedural (i like investigative procedurals... sue me), but it's like just some basic cop and crime drama where i am supposed to give a major shit about some cop's dead family.
