Season 1: Dick Wolf Gives Us NYPD's Finest

[Xeliou66]

Two great season 1 episodes were on earlier - The Torrents of Greed 2 parter and Mushrooms, I love both of these episodes.   
Torrents of Greed is a great mob storyline with really good twists, it was really entertaining from start to finish. L&O did many mob/organized crime stories but this was one of the best, so many good twists and scenes and having it be a 2 parter allowed for a more in depth exploration of the case. 
Mushrooms is a chilling episode with the murder of the baby and the wounding of his older brother, and it had really good investigative and legal work in getting to the bottom of it. Very memorable episode with a compelling case, I thought Greevey was kind of a prick in it as usual but I did like how it showed that this case took a toll on the police.

[TakomaSnark]

6 hours ago, Xeliou66 said:

Two great season 1 episodes were on earlier - The Torrents of Greed 2 parter and Mushrooms, I love both of these episodes.   
Torrents of Greed is a great mob storyline with really good twists, it was really entertaining from start to finish. L&O did many mob/organized crime stories but this was one of the best, so many good twists and scenes and having it be a 2 parter allowed for a more in depth exploration of the case. 
Mushrooms is a chilling episode with the murder of the baby and the wounding of his older brother, and it had really good investigative and legal work in getting to the bottom of it. Very memorable episode with a compelling case, I thought Greevey was kind of a prick in it as usual but I did like how it showed that this case took a toll on the police.

Mushrooms is definitely a top five all-time episode for me. Epatha hit it out of the park in the scene where Greevey and Logan tell her what happened. Shocked she wasn't nominated for a Guest Emmy that year.

[Xeliou66]

16 minutes ago, TakomaSnark said:

Mushrooms is definitely a top five all-time episode for me. Epatha hit it out of the park in the scene where Greevey and Logan tell her what happened. Shocked she wasn't nominated for a Guest Emmy that year.

Mushrooms is great and yeah Epatha did a great job as the mother in that episode, so different from her role as Van Buren, in which she was also great.

I really liked how the case in Mushrooms played out with Greevey and Logan canvassing the neighborhood for eyewitnesses and finding the gun, which led them to the shooter and then the revelation that the shooter went to the wrong apartment. Stone and Robinette had some good scenes as well, and Schiff was good also. Mushrooms might be my favorite season 1 episode. 

[Xeliou66]

Just watched Life Choice, while this is an interesting episode with some good lines, there are some holes in it - namely the revelation that the deceased wasn’t the bomber but was there to have an abortion - it didn’t make sense in that everyone in the clinic said she didn’t sign in and they didn’t see her and that she wasn’t a patient, and then it turned out she was, but there was no explanation for why no one saw her. And it was convenient that the deceased was anti abortion and had done work with the organization that did the bombing. And the autopsy would’ve revealed the deceased was pregnant, which would’ve raised suspicion. And wouldn’t there have been fingerprints on the bomb device and wouldn’t forensics have shown that the deceased wasn’t near the bomb? The plot seemed filled with holes. While I like Stone in this episode and thought he did a good job prosecuting, and I liked Schiff as well, particularly his line about how it was one sided that 3 men were talking about what rights a woman has over her body, the episode’s plot had a lot of holes. 

[andromeda331]

11 hours ago, Xeliou66 said:

Just watched Life Choice, while this is an interesting episode with some good lines, there are some holes in it - namely the revelation that the deceased wasn’t the bomber but was there to have an abortion - it didn’t make sense in that everyone in the clinic said she didn’t sign in and they didn’t see her and that she wasn’t a patient, and then it turned out she was, but there was no explanation for why no one saw her. And it was convenient that the deceased was anti abortion and had done work with the organization that did the bombing. And the autopsy would’ve revealed the deceased was pregnant, which would’ve raised suspicion. And wouldn’t there have been fingerprints on the bomb device and wouldn’t forensics have shown that the deceased wasn’t near the bomb? The plot seemed filled with holes. While I like Stone in this episode and thought he did a good job prosecuting, and I liked Schiff as well, particularly his line about how it was one sided that 3 men were talking about what rights a woman has over her body, the episode’s plot had a lot of holes. 

They might not have. Abortion clinics get a lot of nervous women coming through. Maybe she hadn't gotten up the courage to talk to the receptionist or nurse.  Maybe she didn't give her name or lied about her name. I do agree they should have found out she was pregnant during the autopsy. 

This is one of my favorite episodes I like how they noticed the mom doesn't seem that upset. She's got a martyr. That goes a long way. At least in the beginning. It's still disturbing. I love Schiff pointing that out about them being three men talking about abortion. I love at the end Stone pointing out she killed Mary's baby. Amazing how she never thought about that despite all of her talk about killing babies. It's completely realistic but I still love her reaction. 

 

[Xeliou66]

10 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

They might not have. Abortion clinics get a lot of nervous women coming through. Maybe she hadn't gotten up the courage to talk to the receptionist or nurse.  Maybe she didn't give her name or lied about her name. I do agree they should have found out she was pregnant during the autopsy. 

This is one of my favorite episodes I like how they noticed the mom doesn't seem that upset. She's got a martyr. That goes a long way. At least in the beginning. It's still disturbing. I love Schiff pointing that out about them being three men talking about abortion. I love at the end Stone pointing out she killed Mary's baby. Amazing how she never thought about that despite all of her talk about killing babies. It's completely realistic but I still love her reaction. 

 

Oh yes she did use a fake name and a fake ID, that was discovered on her body, but it just seemed weird that everyone insisted she wasn’t a patient and then it turned out she was, and that she had done work with the woman who actually carried out the bombing. And the autopsy definitely would’ve revealed she was pregnant which would’ve led the detectives to realize that she was there for an abortion. And it seems like the bomb fragments would’ve either had fingerprints from the person who did carry it out and it wouldn’t have had the deceased’s fingerprints, which would’ve been another clue that she wasn’t involved. It just seemed like there were some plot holes.

I agree there are a lot of good moments in the episode, I just think the episode has several plot holes. 

Edited March 14 by Xeliou66