Sam Waterston is back.

 The seasons of Law & Order currently available to watch on Netflix get better as they go along.

The writers, producers, and directors are hitting their groove.

 

        There are still words and phrases and action dynamics that get repeated a lot.

        It's as if the writers are new to it, and they're partly trying to be like the original Law & Order, and partly trying to add new things.

In just about every episode, the person in charge at the precinct, played by actress Camryn Manheim, refers to the crime victim as "the vick."

In many episodes, when the two main detectives go to interview someone, the person runs like hell to escape them and they have to chase the person.  

---------------- Their suit jackets flap and fly out as they "pound the pavement."

        And in several episodes where someone is referring to a murder victim, they say, "He is - eh - was..."

Maybe just have the people sometimes say, "He's such-and-such..." and others in other episodes say "He was - this-and-that..."

Sometimes present tense, and sometimes past tense, and not make such an emphasis on the speaker remembering in the moment that the person he's talking about is now dead.

Oh - just as I type this, one of the detectives says somebody-or-other "can kiss my ass."

Get some alternative phrases and expressions, folks!

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television on Netflix

 

There's a "Law And Order" on Netflix, now.

It says 'Season 21' and 'Season 22.'

        Something is different - well, they have some different actors and actresses, but what I'm referring to is a different - feeling to it.

It is less tight and compelling and intense than older episodes.

Dick Wolf's name is still on it, and Sam Waterston is in it, a little bit.

        I noticed in Season 21, two episodes in a row had the same two phrases in their dialogue:  "roll the dice," and "kiss my a--."

        (Those phrases were not used together, they were in different scenes in the episodes.  -- When I type them together here, it looks funny....)

The thought crossed my mind, "Is AI writing these?" ...

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tremendous poise

 

        A cloudy, gray sky and a damp-looking outdoor scene, reminded me of the 1972 Woody Allen movie called Play It Again, Sam.

Awkward blind date scene - first meeting, and ensuing slapstick catastrophe.

Dick:  That's why it's silly to go to the Pier.

Nancy:  Do you think you could turn the music down a little bit?

Allen:  Of course.

Dick:  What's the point of going to an outdoor restaurant, if it's going to rain?

Linda:  You used to like to take me walking in the rain.

Allen (from across the room where he is turning down the music) - I love the rain.  It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

------------------------- He says it with self-conscious dramatic emphasis, like it's a "deep" thought, right?

"I LOVE the rain.  It washes memories off the sidewalk - of life."

There are two clips containing this scene, on You Tube.

The shorter one is 3 minutes and 40 seconds.

title:

Play It Again Sam Blind Date Scene

channel / uploader:  Greg Blazio

        You can experience it.

        (The awkwardness! - LOL.  "The key to decorating is to avoid looking like you used a decorator."...)

Tremendous poise.  I'm an absolute master. ...

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from Sicily to the Bronx...

 Netflix has on a show called "American Godfathers:  The Five Families."

Produced by the History Channel, and based on a book written by Selwyn Raab, who appears in the series.

        (I was kind of surprised the History Channel made it - the last time I checked, the History Channel was no longer doing history (similar to MTV dropping music from their content) - they were doing flying saucer stuff instead.)

The series is narrated by Michael Imperioli, the actor who portrayed Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos.

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"the wrecking crew"

 

Yesterday I left a note for a musician at work, to watch "The Wrecking Crew" on Netflix.

Then when I typed in that title on Google, I find that there are about 50 different movies and shows called 'The Wrecking Crew,' (one from 1968, with Dean Martin in it) so that's going to be confusing - will have to add specific information.

The one I watched and thought was interesting is a documentary about a bunch of musicians working in Los Angeles during the 1960s and '70s.  As a group, they were nicknamed "the wrecking crew."

I love documentaries about bands, singers, and musicians.  I enjoy hearing people talk about their work.

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mysteries solved

 In yesterday's post here, I mentioned how people would ask us to "look on the cameras" to see who "stole" their lunch-box or whatever - and actually stealing anything was rare to nonexistent, what usually happened was either the person thought they brought their lunch that day, but they didn't and it turned out their lunch-box was at their home all along.

        Or someone did take their lunch-box home, but did it by accident because the two people's lunch-boxes were identical looking.  And then the next day the person who took it home by mistake brings it back.... 

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ok, who stole my lunch-box?

In the place where I work, there are cameras, and people sometimes would ask -  watch the camera and see who stole my lunch, or my lunch-box, or my soda... about 17 years ago, a maintenance man (mechanic) on the Ready-To-Eat side, who has since retired, asked me to watch the camera and see who stole his lunch-box.

I watched some camera footage, and I remember he came into the office and said, "I had that lunch-box throughout three tours in Vietnam."

        (Three tours...??!!)

                ?? ?    !! !

(What??!)

And I had this thought:  his lunch-box survived the Viet Cong - several times - in spite of the - tunnels, but - couldn't survive our break-room.... 

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