[Law & Order: True Crime - General Discussion]

On 11/8/2017 at 9:16 PM, shapeshifter said:

So it sounds like it wasn't illegal for them to make use of the devices—rather the law of one call (I guess?) hadn't caught up with the technology. It is interesting.

There’s no such thing as a “law of one call”.  You’re thinking of what you see on TV where people ask to use their one phone call.  That’s when people are arrested and booked into the jail.

 

It’s common for co-defendants to be separated and order not to have contact the prevent collusion or one trying to pressure the other to take the fall.  If such an order had been granted here, then what they were doing was in violation of it.

On 11/9/2017 at 5:31 PM, meatball77 said:

With this being "law" and order it makes sense for them to be focusing on the lawyers.  I don't get why they're not focusing on both sides though.

Same.  They only thing we hear about the prosecution is their supposedly unethical behavior. I can’t watch shows like this that try so hard to push their personal agenda.

[Law & Order: True Crime - General Discussion]

I’m a bit behind on the show, but many of the theatrical defense attorneys end up getting away with much more than they should because the judge doesn’t want to appear as if they are being too harsh.  

 

There’s one defense attorney in my city that will whisper offensive things to prosecutors under his breath knowing that the prosecutor cannot react without being viewed poorly.  This includes the C word to female attorneys.  

[S01.E08: Clean Up]

1 hour ago, Winston9-DT3 said:

The one thing I liked about when we thought Dylan actually WAS guilty, was I would've liked if that was a dig at Serial.  Serial was so intent on making the accused seem innocent, because the journalist liked him and he didn't look or sound like a killer to her, which is totally irrelevant. 

Not to mention that the host of Serial clearly had a lot of disdain for the police and prosecutors who handled that case.  People make mistakes all the time, but I don't go around assuming I could be better at doing other peoples' jobs than they are.  

[S14.E10: Top 9 Perform]

Is it just me or do some of these dancers show the same basic skills and/or tricks in each solo?  I felt like Lex did the same thing we've always seen him do in his solos.  30 seconds is too short a time to not show me something at least a little different.  Made me think back to the early seasons where the bottom three did dance for your life solos and Nigel chastised the group for not putting enough effort into them.  I felt like Konie and Kaylee were the only two where I wanted to see more.

The contestant group dance was just bad.  Bad costuming, uninspired choreography, and mediocre execution.   Also, then the women are wearing pants, there is no reason they should be forced to dance in heels.  That choreography was too fast and too complicated to risk a turned ankle on a skinny heel.  At least give them wider character shoe type heels!  

I watched the Strange Fruit number after reading some of the commentary here and it didn't strike me as featuring the white dancers.  The costuming, lighting, and movement felt like an attempt to downplay racial differences between the dancers to further the narrative of struggle.  It was so so much better than the contestant group dance in every way.