Cop Shows & Althusser's Law (was Re: surplus and other stuff)

rc&am rcollins at netlink.com.au
Mon Jan 25 23:46:30 PST 1999


Paul Henry Rosenberg wrote:


> Liza Featherstone wrote:
>
> > I'm a bit addicited to these shows for some of the reasons you mention. I
> > watch the Law & Order reruns late at night (they're on every night!). I'd
> > add The Practice to the list too.
>
> David Kelly needs to learn ONE word: rewrite.
>
> Every damn script looks like a first draft. Interesting ideas, a few
> really good bits, all jumbled together and mostly cancelling each other
> out. The few times he doesn't do this, when there's a really carefully
> thought-through script, then it's really a marvel. But it's only
> happened twice: The two episodes with John Larroquette.

it was great wasn't it? very funny, very gruesome and ambiguous.

anyone seen 'between the lines'? a brit cop show, very dark, about an internal police investig. unit who never get their man (who are always, well, cops)....

angela



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