After an inebriated teenage girl is murdered, Goren and Eames turn the microscope on a small town, but accusations against a local advertising big-wig and resistance from the local police co... Read allAfter an inebriated teenage girl is murdered, Goren and Eames turn the microscope on a small town, but accusations against a local advertising big-wig and resistance from the local police complicate the investigation.After an inebriated teenage girl is murdered, Goren and Eames turn the microscope on a small town, but accusations against a local advertising big-wig and resistance from the local police complicate the investigation.
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- TriviaThe step-father of the victim is an officer with the Water Haven Police Department, and part of the episode takes place in the town of Water Haven. The town and police department are both fictional, but judging from the setting of Water Haven being a village resort town for the super rich and famous it is likely supposed to be somewhere in the Hamptons, which is where the Water Haven scenes were filmed. The Hamptons is the name for the beaches and villages along the East end of Long Island and contains the real-life towns of Southampton and East Hampton. The Hamptons are a popular seaside resort and a summer getaway spot for the rich and famous.
- GoofsGoren notices what he calls a "stent" in the mother's chest. He calls it a "stent", and the mother confirms that name and function. Actually, chemo is administered through a "mediport" or "medport". A "stent" is a cage wire mesh-like device that is compressed before it is placed in arteries (usually cardiac arteries) to open up circulation. To treat arteriosclerotic narrowing of arteries. AV fistula's where a piece of a vein from your arm or leg and sewing it into a nearby artery, and allowing the sewn-in vein to enlarge and become thicker, like an artery is another option for access to the circulatory system. One solution used in dialysis. AV graft's, where a prosthetic graft is sewn between an artery and vein in your arm or leg. Also, for used for dialysis, but less frequently than fistula's.
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Kelly Sloane-Raines: No one wants to hear you're happy.
- ConnectionsReferences Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
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Of the first half of the Season 6s of the original 'Law and Order', 'Special Victims Unit' and 'Criminal Intent', 'Criminal Intent's' (the show was also beginning to become very uneven) was easily the worst in my view. The best being 'Special Victims Unit's', where all the episodes were very good and more. 'Law and Order's' was high quality too, but felt less settled with a major character change. 'Criminal Intent's' though was very inconsistent, none of the other two had disappointments on the same level as "Tru Love".
'Criminal Intent's' Season 6 and its first half did have high spots and did have great episodes. The first great episode of the season "Siren Call" was one of them. While it was not perfect (it did take me a while to get used to Ross) or one of my all time favourite episodes of the show, it was truly excellent by Season 6 standards. With the character writing for Goren, the acting of Vincent D'Onofrio and the ending in particular standing out.
"Siren Call" succeeds in almost every way. It is well made, intimately photographed and slick with no signs of under-budget or anything. The music didn't sound melodramatic or too constant and the direction is accomodating while still having pulse. The ending still has big staying power, one of the show's most haunting and one that shocks and moves. It was like that with me on first watch, and on the few re-watches since it's still haunting.
The acting is superb, especially the tour de force performance of Vincent D'Onofrio as a more conflicted and at times more vulnerable Goren while not losing what makes Goren such a great character. "Siren Call" contains some of the best guest support acting, with David Warshofsky being chilling personified. The story is both engrossing and suspenseful, with the highlight of course being the ending.
What really stands out is the brilliant character writing for Goren, showing his usual hard-boiled edge and fierce intelligence but also a compassionate side that he has shown more than once when with children.
Not much at all to criticise, though Ross is still one-dimensional and aggressive and his bias still too blatant.
Overall, great. 9/10
'Criminal Intent's' Season 6 and its first half did have high spots and did have great episodes. The first great episode of the season "Siren Call" was one of them. While it was not perfect (it did take me a while to get used to Ross) or one of my all time favourite episodes of the show, it was truly excellent by Season 6 standards. With the character writing for Goren, the acting of Vincent D'Onofrio and the ending in particular standing out.
"Siren Call" succeeds in almost every way. It is well made, intimately photographed and slick with no signs of under-budget or anything. The music didn't sound melodramatic or too constant and the direction is accomodating while still having pulse. The ending still has big staying power, one of the show's most haunting and one that shocks and moves. It was like that with me on first watch, and on the few re-watches since it's still haunting.
The acting is superb, especially the tour de force performance of Vincent D'Onofrio as a more conflicted and at times more vulnerable Goren while not losing what makes Goren such a great character. "Siren Call" contains some of the best guest support acting, with David Warshofsky being chilling personified. The story is both engrossing and suspenseful, with the highlight of course being the ending.
What really stands out is the brilliant character writing for Goren, showing his usual hard-boiled edge and fierce intelligence but also a compassionate side that he has shown more than once when with children.
Not much at all to criticise, though Ross is still one-dimensional and aggressive and his bias still too blatant.
Overall, great. 9/10
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