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03/06/2006: "Conviction sucks"
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You'll have to excuse my week-long gap between blog entries; I've been playing "pathetic little sick girl" for the last few days, and any blog entry written in this time was likely to say, "Oh god I feel like I've been hit by a truck" over and over.
It seems like NBC is really pushing their new Law and Order show, Conviction. They put the first episode on iTunes as a free download before it ever aired, and then they repeated it after its initial Friday timeslot. I caught the Saturday repeat quite by accident, and I was interested in what J. August Richards has been up to since Angel was cancelled, so I decided to watch it. The verdict? It sucks.
From all the buzz, it seems like this show was supposed to be "the legal drama that focuses on the characters". There was good reason for the L&O team to want to try this. Grey's Anatomy is "the hospital show that focuses on the characters" and it's the best thing on TV right now. Bones is "the crime solving show that focuses on the characters" and it's had a very healthy run so far. Its totally endearing characters are the only reason I watch it. So why wouldn't "the legal drama that focuses on the characters" also work?
Someone needs to tell Conviction's writers that "focusing on the characters" does not mean "show who they're sleeping with, with lots of romping-in-bed scenes."
Aside from the problem where the characters' personalities all seem to stem from their sexual habits, there was another thing that totally got under my skin and made me unable to buy into the show. The entire DA's office was run by people under the age of 30. The only person who actually looked like he was the appropriate age was gunned down halfway through the episode. Conviction seems to be nothing more than a bunch of young, pretty things having sex with each other, all dressed up in the disguise of a legal drama. And it wasn't even done well.
I think I'll pass.
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Time to blog again. I'm bored with this entry now. :Dj!!, Thursday, March 16th