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I liked Homicide, and I thought she was a mediocre actress then, especially compared to actors like Andre Braugher and Richard Belzer. Michael Michele was awful when she played a non-cop guest role on SVU, too, and she was bad in New Jack City.

I saw that episode a few days ago. 🙂 I found out I can order seasons of L&O on DVD through my library. I'm up to season five now. I'm not looking forward to the next seasons, though -- Benjamin Bratt is deeply annoying (but at least I have Briscoe and Van Buren).

Michael Michele was so wooden it was flat out unbelievable that she was human. There, I fixed it for you!

ER reusing old plot lines was really, really annoying. Dark, handsome, moody doctor? Check. Same doctor sleeps around and gets caught in tragic or near-tragic fashion? Check. Staff member has an emergent, complicated childbirth? Check. Doctor gets mad at wait times, goes rogue, and treats-and-streets patients in the waiting room? Check. Helicopter misfortune? Check... Sam as a character was mildly entertaining until she got involved with Luka. After that she was just a caricature, and her son got more and more irritating.

There was no follow through after Babcock's name came up -- no mention that Babcock was fired, no description of what he had done, if anything. Just -- poof.

You are correct. Corday being blamed for a string of patient deaths, which I don't believe was ever explained, was after Ella's birth and before Mark's death. The HIV positive/positive transplant surgery was a few years later. Her post-Mark rebound wasn't all single fathers.

Season 3, L&O: William H. Macy, aka Dr. Morgenstern. No mustache.

I wouldn't have remembered that line if I hadn't spent part of my covid break rewatching the early seasons. It was season four or five, I think -- before the show went so over the top with character portrayals.

He could have; there are "boutique" doctors who don't take insurance. But remember, County doctors are far superior in every way to those self-centered, less skilled, not as intelligent private practice/other hospital doctors. /snark I'm sure the writers just wanted to demonstrate that Romano, although he was an ass in many ways, was one of the County elites and thus he continued to treat those free-loading bottom-feeders. /also snark The first time Romano was mentioned on the show, Benton says he's never met Romano because "the man's in Europe ten months out of the year." Funny how Romano's apparent international renown went by the wayside when the writers needed someone to be the token bully/misogynist/human resources nightmare.

I'm watching episodes of Law & Order from 1991. That's the original flavor. I just looked up to see a young Maura Tierney, AKA Abby Lockhart. For L & O fans, Jerry Orbach played a divorce/defense attorney in the last episode. He had the same hairstyle he always had as Det. Briscoe (and as Dr. Houseman, for that matter). It was odd to see him as a lawyer.

I think Mullet would be more likely to interfere. Of course, it would be in dog-whistle tones so nobody would be able to hear her.

I'm watching a season 4 episode of Law & Order: SVU. The title is "Tangled." I heard a familiar voice, looked up, and saw Samantha Sobriki, aka Liza Weil, playing a rape victim. I have now officially spent WAY too much time watching ER.

Avon is an MLM, albeit less predatory than the newer ones. Only one Bates sister is pregnant? Wasn't the open-mouthed foolish one whose name I can't recall pregnant too?

I'd argue that they're all getting scammed. The sellers for obvious reasons, the buyers (even if they don't get a "join us" pitch) because they're getting merchandise at overinflated prices. The nature of all MLMs is to be predatory. On topic: I wonder if the NotNuries actually like the primitive, kitschy style, or if they just think they have to because Jill does.

1. The batshit one had "Irish twins" more than once, and only missed "Irish triplets" by a couple weeks. I use quotation marks because I dislike using ethnic references but don't have a more descriptive term. I'm a mutt of largely Irish descent. 2. She must have conceived (ew) and miscarried immediately after her marriage. I apologize for putting in your head the mental image of Jill and David having sex. 3. How early were her "SEVERE" miscarriages? 4. I feel bad for the NotNuries about their Etsy shop. I thought the earrings were Paparazzi crap at first, but they're even worse than that. (For those who don't know, Paparazzi is another predatory MLM. They sell cheap-looking jewelry at $5 a pop.)

When Carter talked to Anspaugh in the parking garage about switching to emergency medicine, Anspaugh asked if he was 26, and Carter said 25. He had already done a year of surgical internship, which means Carter probably graduated medical school at 24. That's why I said Carter was a year younger than most people at that stage of his training. (Anspaugh's tone when asking Carter his age, along with Carter's surprising answer, have always stuck in my head.) If you factor in his extra internship year, he still would have been a year younger or the same age, at the very most. But Anna had already done a residency.

Do you mean ADD, not hypertension? It's entirely plausible that adults still take medication for ADD/ADHD. I wasn't even diagnosed until I was 32, and that happens a lot.

Didn't Jen and Craig split up later? Anna must have been older since Carter was an intern that year (and he was a year younger than most people at that stage of his training), and Anna had already done either a pediatrics or ER residency. But this is ER, where even the slackers somehow know more than experienced attendings with decades of experience, so who knows.

Maybe she kept pulling it off and her parents gave up. The only good thing -- Joe and Kendra and kids look happy. They're not dead-eyed like Smuggar.

UO: I don't get the general dislike for Lucy Knight. Was she overly earnest and maybe a little irritating at times? Yes, but nowhere near the level of Abby or Luka or so many minor characters.

Having been there, it's hard enough to be a teenager, then add in your parents moving on, you feeling left out, and having a much younger sibling whom you feel is the favored one. Then add in guilt over an accident that almost killed said younger sibling, plus grief over your dad's early death. Hell, I'd act out too. Freshman year of high school leaves plenty of time to turn one's life around. Plus, once you actually make it to college, nobody really cares how you did in high school. My only skepticism is Rachel getting into Duke, but maybe she transferred after a year or two of college. It happens.

Neela, not Leela. Dusty Crenshaw is the surgeon you're referring to. I don't remember anyone saying he was a great surgeon. He was just kind of there.

ER did that with other specialties, too. I remember when Mark went upstairs to talk to Loretta's radiation oncologist, and that doc was leaving at what would be around the end of normal business hours. Mark made some snarky comment about the easy life of a radiation oncologist. Well, maybe he'd seen all his patients for the day. Maybe he had an appointment of his own. Maybe he was going to spend time with his family and not show up an hour late and inconvenience everyone else, like some people. At County General, of course, every appendectomy except for Benton's is wrought with complications and nearly ends in tragedy. /s

Carol annoyed me pretty much all through her tenure on the show, then she irritated me when she returned in the last season. So did Doug Ross.

Season 6, Carter and his cousin's ex-wife. It's kind of icky, but then add in Carter getting into her business by asking Corday about her mastectomy. Creepy. Also, the whole Gabe Lawrence plot line.