You know it is sweep month when Law and Order episodes just became incomprehensibly twisty. Last night's episode gave me so many whiplashes that, by the end, I was convulsing violently and foaming at the mouth.
In a mere hour (actually, about 45 minutes with ads), the story involves: 1) an overdose, 2) a negligent homicide, 3) a physician who doesn't believe in chemotherapy for his cancer patients, 4) an accountant who devises an extraordinary plan to save his rich clients a lot of money with tax evasion, 5) a lesbian couple who had fallen out, 6) an unborn child with entangling maternity and custody issues, 7) a legal battle over homosexual partners' "marriage"/spousal rights, 8) a huge pile of money to be inherited, 9) a King-Solomon style of trick to resolve the crazy case.
Rene Balcer!
After 17 years of watching this series, I thought I'd have learned something about plotting. Maybe I should take a class or workshop on this.
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