Law & Order

I watched three consecutive episodes of Law & Order last night. TNT plays this little game in which they run the opening scene of the subsequent program simultaneously with the closing credits of the previous one, which appear in a little black bar across the bottom of the screen.

The result is that final scene of one is back-to-back with the opening scene of the next, and you get caught in the story before you realize it. The hope of escape is an episode you might have seen before. Without that to break the trance, it just goes on an on.

Final note: Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe is simply terrific. What a shame to lose him last fall.