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JK Simmons as the camera guy (although wanting his Pulitzer was a misstep), “Sid’s Sneaker World, Air Jordans 50% off.” “We’re Homicide, your friend is homiciding somebody.” Contrast to this one where I fell asleep and couldn’t care who killed whom. Although it was an ER night with Pfeiffer, LaSalle, Tierney, and Michael Beach, although Beach was gone before Pfeiffer and Tuerney were there, if memory serves.

The song selection in the long gave her no help either. I know it'd be a cliche but if you're going to skate Hozier, "Take Me To Church," unless the lyrics were wildly off (I can't remember at the moment), has a lot of build and push to it that would carry her. I felt like she was struggling with the music as well as what had happened.

I missed that but I did have to note that Terry wore a couple of very modern jackets instead of his usual suit, so good on him (now he just needs to go gray and stop the dye job). I love Alyssa's MacArthur Park program but the end needs a rethink - the slower MacArthur Park verse works, but the ending had another piece inset (the original disco cut is 17 minutes) that sounded garbled and it ends so fast I could see her thinking "uh oh, I need to end this NOW." I still find it hilarious that now even some of the coaches wouldn't have been alive during disco. I felt so sorry for Lindsey Thorngren, she looked like she wanted to be anywhere but on the ice. Sherry Zhang was a lot of fun to watch. I think C/B's worst bit is their rhythm dance, which is one of the compiliation "dance records" from the early 80s (Hawaii 5-0???).

She cut her hand on her blade doing that last spin, from what I’ve read.

What shocks me is that skaters in contention are still doing triple toe-triple toe as their combo, when that was Debi Thomas's advantage...in 1988.

Terry telling Johnny not to talk through the pairs team skating to Aerosmith was hilarious.

Yes. I so wanted Nolan to say “people like me? What the hell do you mean by that?” It needed Cutter or Connie for that line, but I did like Nolan for the first time in maybe ever. I too think we’re heading to some sort of showdown. Oh yeah. Pretty good ep - Shaw and Riley are always the standout but Shaw drew his gun way too far away from the suspect and Riley was just crazy to go for that takedown. I guess they were happy they didn’t have to chase anyone. Nice to see Detective Yee again too.

I can’t believe I missed Win Thursday but did catch that Spratt is Higgins from Ted Lasso!

Well, they did shelve a movie they spent $90 million on, as a tax writeoff because they didn't think it was "good enough" or something, so...

I have this dim memory that I had also seen it somewhere else that same week - but you're right, I probably was remembering earlier in the episode (I remember that ep being a worse mess than the lamb made!)

And she looked like the judge too... I liked Price finally showing a bit of spine but this one went in so many directions that the judge's drug problems were just the final straw. I stg Maura Tierney shows up in yet another show and takes over. She arrived in ER and suddenly, she was the focus of everyone. She shows up in L&O and she's suddenly got all these story lines - ugh. I'd also say that Baxter has been involved in more cases already than I think Adam in his entire tenure, well, at least as many as Branch or Lewin. As soon as they started looking at that tent, I knew we were headed that way. So the murderer didn't get rid of the sweatshirt which should have had some, er, evidence on it? So, you go to the judge's house, beat in the brains of her husband with a golf club instead, all because you want an internship and don't get it seems to be a metaphor for something. Enjoy your twelve years, you got off easy.

Uh oh, is this the Ben Stone Exit?

Oh, now that would have been an interrogation scene for the ages...

It was quite amazing.

So the school chief goes into court and says half the parents are cheating for extra time. Was he quitting the next day? Excellent point. My thought exactly. Plus she really believed the “you get to go home”? I would dearly love one time for someone to say “i watch a lot of cop shows so yeah I know all your tricks.” I like shady Baxter but that was such a huge conflict. Excellent point too. I disliked her more as Abby on ER but Brady is coming up fast on the outside… Again with scholarship kid at elite prep school goes wild - that’s such a favorite L&O trope.