moon_custafer | (no subject)

Woke up feeling like I was coming down with a cold yesterday, so stayed home and watched a whole lot of episodes of Law & Order - Criminal Intent (Vincent d'Onofrio solves murders, acts manic); when you watch a lot of it at once you can see certain patterns - medical insurance fraud is a recurring plot device, as are various pathological/atypical mental states (after a few of these in a row, I commented that it should be called Oliver Sacks' Mystery Theatre); also, if there's a relatively well-known actor guest-starring, they usually turn out to be the villain.

Nevertheless, enough twists to not be totally predictable, and watching d'Onofrio (Whole Wide World, Full Metal Jacket, Men in Black) is always good fun. The abrupt endings are also kind of refreshing (no regular cast having drinks after work and discussing the Moral of the Story) as are the extremely basic back-stories for the main characters - Det. Eame's (late?) father was a cop; Det. Goren's mother was a librarian and is schizophrenic; that's pretty much all we're told.