Law & Order: The Fourteenth Year
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Actor: Dennis Farina, Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. MartinBrand: Universal
Editor: Leslie Gaulin
Editor: Douglas Ibold
Editor: John Refoua
Writer: Brad Markowitz
Writer: Nancy Miller
Writer: Carl Nelson
Writer: David Streever
Writer: Scott Tobin
Writer: P.K. Todd
Writer: Dick Wolf
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1045 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Box set; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Full Screen; Subtitled; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Law & Order: The Fourteenth Year
DVD Review: The last of the Lenny Briscoe years is less than stellar
Summary: 3 Stars
The only reason to own this season is that it is Jerry Orbach's last as Lenny Briscoe. However, even as his last season of L&O, it does not have the best Briscoe-centric episodes or the best Briscoe wise-cracks, nor are there extra features dedicated to him in this set. Viewing this season and season four back-to-back, it is sadly obvious how far L&O has fallen over the years, even before Lenny Briscoe exited stage left. Truly, the last good casting decision on the show was when Jesse L. Martin was picked to play detective Ed Green back in 1999, and I also thought Dianne Wiest did a pretty good job of playing an interim D.A. for the two years after Steven Hill left. However it is implausable that (a) An extremely conservative Southern lawyer would CHOOSE to set up shop in NYC and that (b) the good citizens of NYC would then elect him District Attorney. Jerry Falwell would have a better chance of being elected mayor there than Arthur Branch would have of being elected district attorney. Also, Joss Whedon saw early on that Elizabeth Rohm was attracting sharks to his "Angel" series, even in the limited dramatic role she had on that show during its first season. This is something that was lost on NBC when they picked her to play ADA Serena Southerlyn. But as I've said before, don't get me started.
The season opener, "Bodies", is pretty good, even if there are some odd holes in the logic being used by the police and the D.A. A creepy cab driver turns out to be a serial killer, but after he's caught, he won't reveal where all his victims' bodies are. McCoy must decide how much to give up to find out where they are, and the killer's defense attorney gets too deeply involved in his client's affairs to the point where he knows where the bodies are too, but won't talk unless his client waives privelege - and he won't.
One of the better episodes is "Gaijin" in which Van Buren has reservations about Branch's tactics of inventing a tale of a suspect in custody to lure a Ginza nightclub owner back to New York after the Japanese government is unwilling to extradite him to face charges of conspiracy and murder in the death of his wife on a New York City vacation. During jury selection, the defense attorney excludes every black person. This is because the defendant initially blamed an unidentified black man for his wife's murder. McCoy challenges the one Asian juror, but for reasons unrelated to race. At trial, things go pretty well, but it's hard to tell which way the jury is leaning. There's an interesting moment when the defendant says of Chen, a Chinese-American witness, "She's Chinese...maybe she thinks all Japanese look alike." This line seems to be a jab at the typical non-Asian-American stereotype of the appearance of Asians. In spite of all the odd tactics, the defendant is found guilty.
The season finale, "C.O.D", does have a good plot, being ripped from Hitchcock rather than from the headlines. Following closely a formula Hitchcock made successful in his film "Strangers on a Train," two seemingly random murders are connected only through the coffee shop the widows have in common. One husband was a philandering delivery man, the other a financial tycoon putting the squeeze on his wife's spending habits. In attempting to match the slugs from the first crime, Briscoe and Green stumble across a link to the second, and determine that two complete strangers entered into an agreement to kill one another's husbands. However, the entire episode really belongs to Lenny. Early on in the episode he makes clear his intention to retire. His sweet early moments with Anita, entering into gentle banter, and the scene where Ed learns of his intent to leave has the audience swallowing a little lump in their throat. The last glimpse of him packing up his desk, and taking one final look into the precinct before making a sober exit is one that will be imprinted in the minds of fans for years to come. It may be the most significant departure in the history of the series.
In summary, there are some pretty good scripts in this season, but there are also some weak and even boring ones, and it doesn't help matters that by the fourteenth season the cast doesn't gel the way it once did. I can see why some fans would be reluctant to buy individual seasons of L&O, because I can easily see sometime in the future - probably late in the year, just in time for Christmas - there being a DVD boxed collector's set with the first ten "golden years" of L&O included, and the later seasons just continuing to be sold as individual season DVD sets.
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/14/2004 Rating: NrBestsellers in DVD
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