Mr. McCoy needs to look up the word "bimbo" in the dictionary. The woman McCoy labeled as such did not sound dumb when answering Abbie's questions. It was the banker who seemed to fit the very definition of the word. Sadly, female characters and real women are easily referred to as bimbos while their male counterparts, who may be the actual bimbos, are labeled by their respectable positions.
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"The Banker and the Bimbo"
bkoganbing21 August 2016
A young coed is found murdered in her dorm room. She was a girl from Terre Haute who concealed many things from her unsuspecting parents.
One of them being that she was making extra money as a topless dancer where in that kind of atmosphere she got wind of an insider trading scheme that went all the way up to the top management of a most conservative investment firm. She hoped to get a job there and use as leverage her knowledge of the insider trading it got her killed.
To some degree of culpability former porn star Adrienne Shelly, skinhead dope dealer Stephen Spinella and one of the partners in the investment house Peter Van Wagner are guilty.
There are three people to watch out for. I wish Bob Dishy had made even more appearances on Law And Order as Lawrence Weaver who is Van Wagner's high price mouthpiece. His client is something else.
And on that Van Wagner portrays a man who is such a miserable schlep of a human being it's hard to believe he rose to the top of his profession. Especially with all the thinking he does with his male member. It's the reason for this whole tawdry affair.
Finally Shelly's attorney Fay Ann Lee has a great courtroom scene where she pulls Van Wagner apart and blows up a carefully orchestrated deal that Sam Waterston and Bob Dishy have put together. She and Van Wagner are really good.
The title of the review comes from Jack McCoy. Sums it all up.
One of them being that she was making extra money as a topless dancer where in that kind of atmosphere she got wind of an insider trading scheme that went all the way up to the top management of a most conservative investment firm. She hoped to get a job there and use as leverage her knowledge of the insider trading it got her killed.
To some degree of culpability former porn star Adrienne Shelly, skinhead dope dealer Stephen Spinella and one of the partners in the investment house Peter Van Wagner are guilty.
There are three people to watch out for. I wish Bob Dishy had made even more appearances on Law And Order as Lawrence Weaver who is Van Wagner's high price mouthpiece. His client is something else.
And on that Van Wagner portrays a man who is such a miserable schlep of a human being it's hard to believe he rose to the top of his profession. Especially with all the thinking he does with his male member. It's the reason for this whole tawdry affair.
Finally Shelly's attorney Fay Ann Lee has a great courtroom scene where she pulls Van Wagner apart and blows up a carefully orchestrated deal that Sam Waterston and Bob Dishy have put together. She and Van Wagner are really good.
The title of the review comes from Jack McCoy. Sums it all up.
Trading low
TheLittleSongbird12 January 2022
'Law and Order' was a brilliant show in its prime and overall is actually my favourite of the 'Law and Order' franchise and out of it, 'Special Victims Unit' (the longest running) and 'Criminal Intent'. Despite not feeling the same post-Briscoe. Season 10 was a solid season on the whole, with many great episodes and only about two or three disappointments. On first watch, "High and Low" struck me as a very good episode if not quite a great one.
"High and Low" still is very, very good in my view, with plenty of what makes 'Law and Order' so good when on form and its best aspects are so incredibly well executed. It falls a little short of greatness, with it being a case of starting off a bit on the ordinary side but became near-classic 'Law and Order' level by the end, but "High and Low" was so nearly there. There are better episodes of the season and 'Law and Order' overall, but it is a long way from being one of the worst.
There is a lot that is great. The production values are as professional as usual, and this aspect did come on a lot overtime with a sharper and slicker look growing with each season. The music is haunting while not intrusive or overused. The direction is sympathetic without being too low key. The script is intelligently written and taut, with a take no prisoners approach to the material. Briscoe's one-liners are always fun and the exchanges in the legal scenes are very thought-provoking.
While the story execution wasn't perfect in my view, it does benefit from a riveting second half and one of the best written and acted cross examinations of the season. Fascinating to watch that. The characters are all written, with Peter Van Wagner's character being chillingly weaselly, though how he managed to be in the profession with that attitude does require some disbelief suspension. All the regulars are excellent, but there are quite a number of episodes of 'Law and Order' where the guest stars make an even bigger impression, and Adrienne Shelley, Bob Dishy, Fay Ann Lee and especially Peter Van Wagner all deliver.
Not a perfect episode by all means, with a slightly too ordinary first portion where surprises and tension were not much.
As well as a too hastily wrapped up ending.
Concluding though, very good. 8/10.
"High and Low" still is very, very good in my view, with plenty of what makes 'Law and Order' so good when on form and its best aspects are so incredibly well executed. It falls a little short of greatness, with it being a case of starting off a bit on the ordinary side but became near-classic 'Law and Order' level by the end, but "High and Low" was so nearly there. There are better episodes of the season and 'Law and Order' overall, but it is a long way from being one of the worst.
There is a lot that is great. The production values are as professional as usual, and this aspect did come on a lot overtime with a sharper and slicker look growing with each season. The music is haunting while not intrusive or overused. The direction is sympathetic without being too low key. The script is intelligently written and taut, with a take no prisoners approach to the material. Briscoe's one-liners are always fun and the exchanges in the legal scenes are very thought-provoking.
While the story execution wasn't perfect in my view, it does benefit from a riveting second half and one of the best written and acted cross examinations of the season. Fascinating to watch that. The characters are all written, with Peter Van Wagner's character being chillingly weaselly, though how he managed to be in the profession with that attitude does require some disbelief suspension. All the regulars are excellent, but there are quite a number of episodes of 'Law and Order' where the guest stars make an even bigger impression, and Adrienne Shelley, Bob Dishy, Fay Ann Lee and especially Peter Van Wagner all deliver.
Not a perfect episode by all means, with a slightly too ordinary first portion where surprises and tension were not much.
As well as a too hastily wrapped up ending.
Concluding though, very good. 8/10.
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