A Meaningless Title

Watching Boston Legal last night - I'm not sure if it's a good idea or a bad idea for a law firm to be advertising themselves during the show. Sure, it's a popular show about a law firm, so there's some synergy there - but do you really want your law firm associated with Crane, Poole & Schmidt?

I suppose having people associate your lawyers with Denny Crane isn't that bad, once you've already taken the reputation damaging step of being a law firm that advertises late at night on TV...

My god, SVU is terrible this season. Last night's episode seemed like a real improvement over the last few - until the last act, when we get the sudden revelation that the real killer wasn't either of the suspects the episode had just spent forty minutes implicating. No, it turns out it was the defense attorney all along! The hell? And how did the detectives work this out? Well, they noticed the victim had filmed a commercial in her apartment. Therefore, she must have a video camera, therefore it must be hidden in the burnt-out ruins of her apartment and must contain footage of her murder! Of course!

And what is the point of the new detective, Lake? Ignoring the fact that the actor is utterly wooden, what exactly is he bringing to the show? I get the impression even the writers aren't sure what to do with him - he's lucky to get more than a single line of dialogue in an episode. On the plus side, at least Munch is getting a decent scene or two each episode again...

At this rate, SVU's starting to rank below CSI: Miami as far as entertainment goes - at least Miami is ludicrously over-the-top ridiculous, rather than just mundanely stupid...