S10.E08: Love Will Tear Us Apart

[DanaK]

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11/20/2024 (08:00PM - 09:00PM) (Wednesday) : Goodwin's troubles persist. Charles clashes with his former resident over a depressed patient. Lenox and Ripley treat a car accident victim who recently reunited with his college sweetheart.

Mid-season finale

Edited November 20 by DanaK

[MediaZone4K]

Riveting stuff!!!

I totally understand where knife woman was coming from. To give life to a person who caused an accident not the victim!! But this is not the way.

Why would Goodwin get so close to someone with a knife, I get that she was trying to reason with her but that was a big risk.

[MediaZone4K]

Seeing Goodwin get stabbed is like your aunt or grandmother get attacked. It felt uncomfortable. 

Sidebar...S Epetha looks great. I don't know if she got a new stylist since her days on Law & Order but she dresses better, looks younger, and has better hairstyles now.

 

Edited November 21 by MediaZone4K

[Sandman]

Does anyone else find the direction the show is taking the Sarah Reese character just sad? I was really hoping the show wouldn’t just reprise the ugly way they wrote Reese out of the show.  

ETA: I think it makes sense for Goodwin to have a completely different look from Lt. Van Buren. She’s in a (very likely) higher paid position, in a charge of a bigger chunk of a different institution; her position is also more overtly social, at least partly about making donors and board members feel looked after. It seems likely that her style would be a little more polished, her competence packaged in a way that’s a little more soignée.

Edited November 21 by Sandman

[threebluestars]

2 hours ago, Sandman said:

Does anyone else find the direction the show is taking the Sarah Reese character just sad? I was really hoping the show wouldn’t just reprise the ugly way they wrote Reese out of the show. 

Yeah, I was so excited to see she was back and then ... yeah. I wonder if they're going the "she's got sociopathy like her dad" route.

[cameron]

I noticed right away when they show the hands writing the note that it was probably a women's.  But don't remember if she was on that particular episode when that boat accident happened and all the events that followed.

[Diana Berry]

Wow another intense show ( same with svu) as a mid season finale.  
 

So glad it wasn’t nice boyfriend doctor.  

[MediaZone4K]

On 11/21/2024 at 12:33 PM, Sandman said:

Does anyone else find the direction the show is taking the Sarah Reese character just sad? I was really hoping the show wouldn’t just reprise the ugly way they wrote Reese out of the show.  

ETA: I think it makes sense for Goodwin to have a completely different look from Lt. Van Buren. She’s in a (very likely) higher paid position, in a charge of a bigger chunk of a different institution; her position is also more overtly social, at least partly about making donors and board members feel looked after. It seems likely that her style would be a little more polished, her competence packaged in a way that’s a little more soignée.

Valid points, But I think it goes beyond a change in character. It looks like she's had a makeover in her personal life as well.

[Diana Berry]

I hope when the show returns Goodwin is able to joke with Archer and say his resignation letter  saved her life…now tear it up.

[DanaK]

I thought it was interesting that the writers had Goodwin's attacker be not so sure about actually killing her

[Quark]

This was a very good episode.

 

[amarante]

Epatha's character on L&O was styled deliberately as she was a ground breaking glass ceiling crasher - a Lt being a WOC back then. She dressed to blend in - she wore a wig so that she didn't have a "threatening" hair style and her clothes were as unfashionable as the male counter parts on the squad. 

Times have changed and Goodwin is an extremely high ranking executive who needs to look polished because of the people she interacts with as an executive. She is also free to wear braids and not the non-threatening hair style of Van Buren.