June 1st, 2007
Now that Fred Dalton Thompson has left the show, let’s pause to give a huge round of applause for David Slack and Richard Sweren, who wrote #17.22, which may prove to be the final episode of modern era of Law & Order.
It’s been a rough season, but the season finale, “The Family Hour,” was unlike any episode I’ve ever seen from the show–it was fourth-wall busting absurdist theater with the writers taking two of the best TV characters from recent years–Oscar Bluth and Aaron Echolls–and dropping them into the Wolfiverse. Watching Sam Waterston’s Jack McCoy try to make sense of this weird What If . . . crossover was beautiful. It was Law & Order‘s Jose Cheung moment.
And if that’s the way the show goes out, I won’t feel cheated.
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