Law and Order went through a late life renaissance in seasons 18-20, largely due to a sharpening up of the direction of the episodes. Gone was the increasingly bland and glossy lifestyle of the rich and famous episodes and we went back to the grimier, grainier style of the Ben Stone era. There's some really nice location work here, some very naturalistic acting and an absence of gloss and vanities about the whole deal. These aren't crimes of hubris, these are tales of pathetic, tawdry crimes shown much as we imagine they would have happened.
Review of Tango
