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Yes Vaya Con Dios is the first of two L&O episodes that ends on an open note - we don’t learn which way the Supreme Court ruled. As for Adam’s departure, they addressed it in the season 11 premiere, they might not have known he was leaving at the time although he mentioned contemplating retirement in the previous episode, while it would’ve been nice to have an onscreen goodbye with Adam, they did a good job in addressing it in the next episode when Giuliani introduced Nora. And we even got an update years later when we heard Jack talking with Adam on the phone and found out Adam was in Africa doing humanitarian work - that was awesome! So I was fine with how Adam’s departure was handled.

I think it actually gave the show some freshness to have Jack become DA, while no one could match Jack’s courtroom skills, it was natural to have Jack become DA after all his years as lead prosecutor and it showed us another side of Jack’s character seeing him as the boss and dealing with the politics and bureaucracy of being DA. It gave L&O a much needed spark after season 17, which was L&O’s weakest season, still better than most shows but L&O’s weakest season. So I liked the move to make Jack DA. My biggest issue with the last few seasons of the show’s original run is Cutter - he was just an egomaniac prick who wasn’t likable, he lacked ethics much of the time and didn’t seem to care about anything but winning. No one could replace Jack but I just don’t like Cutter much, although he became more tolerable in season 20. I wish Connie had become lead prosecutor, she was awesome, and being paired with her is likely why Cutter is tolerated, she was always likable and is my favorite female lawyer on L&O. But I love Lupo and Bernard and I think the last couple of seasons were very strong, L&O never should’ve been cancelled after season 20. Briscoe/Green and Briscoe/Logan are my favorite detective pairings as well.

Agreed completely - a close second character wise would be season 5, but I think season 10 was the best.

Yeah it’s a crazy episode, some wild twists, I just thought Jack and the other main characters were too stubborn about their belief that the boyfriend killed the sister, I mean anyone crazy enough to stage their own rape and acquire someone’s semen to frame them is definitely crazy enough to kill their sister, it seemed like they just ignored that. It was only at the end that they realized the defendant was almost certainly innocent. I liked the defense attorney Garnett in that episode, he was always a worthy adversary. If I had to pick a top 5 of season 10 I would say it would be Sundown Justice Surrender Dorothy High and Low DNR That’s probably my top 5, but it’s an excellent season so it’s hard to pick. I honestly think season 10 has the best cast in L&O history - Briscoe/Green are my favorite detective duo and Adam was still DA here and Abbie is one of my favorite ADAs and of course Jack and Anita are great. Plus a lot of great recurring characters were in this season - Skoda, Rodgers etc. It is a top 5 season of L&O for me, maybe top 3

Another good twisted case last night, I’m really going to miss this show’s dark and twisted cases. Bittersweet watching these final episodes knowing it’s been cancelled, such a good show.

Agreed I felt no sympathy for her, she was a cold blooded killer, and saying her sister “didn’t have a life” was chilling. It was a great plot, the twist of her posing as her sister was great, and I liked how the detectives traced where the elevator went to see which floor the murder was committed on. The rambling receptionist was funny as well. It’s one of my all time favorite episodes, excellent case and lots of colorful characters.

Good episode, nice twists and intensity. Interesting how the kidnapping plot turned into a bomb plot. I did think it was odd that the kidnapped girl’s dad wasn’t being watched at all times, how did he get to the warehouse and why weren’t agents with him? That seemed weird, everything else flowed well. Isobel was great in this episode, I liked how she got through to the bomber and how she ran everything. No Jubal, I missed his interactions with the command room agents, but Isobel shined in this episode. Nice role for all 4 field agents, I like Scola’s new partner, and Kelly and Elise had good stuff as well. I wonder if Maggie is considering leaving, given that she seemed rather burned out with dealing with dangerous stuff, I wonder if any more will come of that? I doubt she goes anywhere but it’s the first time she’s seemed fed up. Nice to see the ME, Neil, again, and the bomb techs were good as well in their minor role. I like how this show is a team effort to solve cases with each character playing a good role. Good episode.

That’s hilarious!! Is it now breaking the rules to mock Her Holiness?!

It’s nice to see the earlier seasons be shown again on WE now, since the ION networks haven’t shown the early seasons in a while - I think seasons 3-4 are my favorites of CM, so many great episodes in those seasons. Unlike some, I still like CMs later seasons and while the show definitely lost something when Hotch left it was still enjoyable and I don’t think there was a strong drop off until that awful Truth or Dare episode at the end of season 14, that episode was total crap and season 15 had two total crap episodes as well, Saturday and Date Night, those were like bad soapy fanfics come to life, just horrid, and there was a lot crammed into season 15 because it was only 10 episodes, should’ve been more for a final season - I haven’t watched the new CM:Evolution series as I don’t have Paramount right now, if I ever get it I might check it out but I hear it’s not nearly as good as regular CM was. But while I enjoy all 15 seasons of CM overall, seasons 3 and 4 are my favorites I know some people really like Gideon but he’s never been my favorite, while I like seasons 1-2 a lot I like Rossi way more than Gideon, Gideon just felt like an arrogant know it all much of the time and could be very dismissive of everyone else while Rossi is much warmer with the others and gels well with everyone, maybe Gideon would’ve grown if he had stayed on the show but it’s notable how, after his first episode where he’s having to adjust to the new structure of the BAU in his return, Rossi quickly comes to work well with the rest of the team, Gideon was always on an island by himself, and as I’ve mentioned before I prefer the teamwork structure of the show and when Gideon was on it felt like it was the Gideon show and everyone else was just a side character to him too often. Seasons 3-4 were just awesome, almost all great episodes - one of my all time favorites as I’ve mentioned before, Seven Seconds, just started on WE now, fantastic and gripping episode. Next up is Rossi’s first episode About Face, another great episode. All of season 3 is great really.

Interesting. Justice is a great episode, it was nice to see Jamie again and it was an interesting and complex case and I liked how they were able to nail the perp. I hope that the publicity from the case was enough to end Judge Wolinsky’s career even if he couldn’t be held legally accountable for sending the innocent guy to prison. Patsy is interesting in that the main characters were dead wrong about the case all the way until the last minute of the episode, it was only at the end that Jack and Abbie realized the comatose woman had likely killed her sister. I thought the DAs were being too stubborn about it, anyone crazy enough to fake an attack on themselves and wind up in a coma doing so just to frame someone else is crazy enough to kill their sister. I think my favorite of the season might be Sundown, that’s a great episode with the investigation first into the con artist then realizing the dementia ridden husband did it - it was an interesting case and I liked how Skoda got the husband to show his true nasty self, he was a mean old guy. I also liked Jack’s argument at the end about how the guy was sane and rational when he killed his wife and had to be legally punished for it. Other episodes I love from season 10 are High and Low, DNR, Surrender Dorothy, Trade This and Collision.

Yeah it was a very funny scene. I also liked the Jersey cop who was enjoying a fancy meal at the steakhouse. And the case had some really good twists and turns, it was interesting how the perp was impersonating her sister and killed her to hide from the mob in Jersey. She was ice cold, saying her sister didn’t have a life at the end.

Blood Money is a very good episode, the victim was an unsympathetic scumbag and it was a wild plot how his son shot him but the other guy who was hired to steal the book stabbed him too. Complex case and I liked how they charged the insurance company. The testimony of the elderly guy who survived the Nazi concentration camp and lost his family was chilling and memorable. Adam seemed to take more of an interest in this case than normal, you could tell it affected him and it was one of the few times his Jewish heritage was alluded to. Interesting that Adam went to work on Holocaust reparations in his retirement in the next season. Vaya Con Dios is a great episode as well, and it was interesting how they left the ending open. Only time in the show’s history until episode 16 of the current season that they did that. It was Adam’s last appearance although it wasn’t known at the time, in the previous episode he mentioned he was thinking about retirement. Season 10 has a lot of great episodes, what are your favorites from it?

Yeah I noticed that as well, the courtroom was backwards during one of the trials. That was weird. It’s still one of my favorite ever episodes, great twisted plot with a lot of colorful suspects/characters. And the scene between Adam/Jack in jail is hilarious, Adam growling at the murderer to sit down and then Jack telling him to wear silk and the look Adam gives him, cracks me up every time.

Yeah Father Joe was such a sicko - he even molested his own kid. I liked when Logan stormed out of the interrogation room before he could lose his temper with the creep, and I liked how the DAs were able to prosecute him. It was a great episode for both Mike and Jack. And it was nice to see Cragen again. Yeah the lawyer in Purple Heart might’ve won the case if he had just rested, Jack could argue whatever he wanted for motive and the murder weapon was linked to his client but it was a very shaky case. And yeah Denise clearly didn’t tell him about the prior attempt. It was a nice job by Jack to bait him into putting Denise on the stand but he was a moron to fall for it. It’s a great episode though with really good detective work in piecing it together and good legal scenes. I like Switch as well - it was a surprise ending that it was one of the multiple personalities that did it, not the father, it was an interesting case. I think my favorites of season 5 are Purple Heart, Virtue, Bad Faith and Rage.

Agreed with everyone that it was nice to see Brady balance out Benson and not be pushed around by her. I’m very glad they didn’t trash any of the Mothership characters in order to make St O look better, although the only Mothership characters that got a large role were Brady, Price and Baxter -Riley disappeared at the halfway point, Maroun had one scene and Shaw was MIA. This episode it made sense for both Brady and Benson to take the lead on the case and work closely together. I also really liked the Price/Carisi prosecution tandem. Probably my favorite scene was when St O was pushing Baxter into trying to intimidate WhatsApp and Baxter told her he wasn’t running his office that way and to use the sting operation instead - Benson should’ve thought of that herself and it was kind of amusing to see the DA point out the obvious to Benson and not bow down to her. Overall I really enjoyed the crossover, they pulled it off well and I liked each character’s role although it was more SVU heavy than Mothership.