Posts with tag j august richards
Posted May 13th 2006 8:46PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order
(S01E11) Didn't Stephanie March have shorter hair last week?
This week we have another instance of Nick Potter (Jordan Bridges) wrestling with his demons. He's trying to save a reformed gang member from jail and he goes over ADA Jessica Rossi's (Milena Govich) head to Bureau Chief Alexandra Cabot (March), who recommends a lesser sentence. I thought we got over Nick's psychological problems with his mugging last week, but this episode may be out of order. On a side note, we get to see very little of Rossi this week. Her only storyline is to establish that she's not a high-class gal because she doesn't know what 'Cocktail Attire' means or what Foie Gras is.
Continue reading Conviction: Indescretion
Posted Apr 29th 2006 7:07PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd
(S01E09) I totally hated the judge on ADA
Steele's case. He made my blood boil as he kept ruling against Steele and pushing for a lesser charge against a high
school kid who killed a classmate. I know I wouldn't have kept my cool the way Steele did. But, was he right to
continue with the murder charges? The judge's original offer for a lesser charge was for 1-3 years in jail. Steele
refused to reduce the charge, got his conviction (no thanks to the judge), and then the judge reduced the charge anyway
and put the kid on probation. Steele had to know that the judge had the ability to do this. He had to see it coming,
right? Or is he just so stubborn and self-absorbed that he can't see past his own nose? He didn't seem to be fighting
for the victim, rather for himself.
Continue reading Conviction: The Wall
Posted Apr 15th 2006 2:51PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order
(S01E08) So... the
beginning of
Conviction was cut off here in Portland because the Trailblazers/Lakers game ran long (Surprise,
surprise: the Blazers lost 99-110). If there were any good, steamy sex scenes to kick off the episode like there were
last week, I missed 'em.
Let me just
say outright, what I don't like about this show is the way that Alexandra Cabot has become such a bitch. While on
SVU, she was unorthodox, but passionate. Now her priorities are her career and she seems to have forgotten
what it was like to live and breathe for a victim.
Continue reading Conviction: Downhill
Posted Apr 12th 2006 9:28AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd
(S01E07) Surpise! Did everybody's TiVos or DVRs catch
Conviction last night? Mine didn't!
Luckily, I was flipping through the channels and I saw that it was on. TiVo is currently in a time out.
So,
NBC put
Conviction on a Tuesday night where
Law & Order: SVU usually airs. This is obviously a
ploy to get the
SVU crowd interested in Dick Wolf's new ADA lovefest (seriously, the guy is in love with
prosecuting attorneys). The problem is, it's very different than the procedural drama that we know as
Law &
Order. Could you imagine tuning in last night for the first time and wondering who on earth all these people are?
Sheesh.
Continue reading Conviction: True Love
Posted Apr 8th 2006 8:43AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd
(S01E06) First of all...
yum. Eric Balfour dancing with that woman in the opening scene? That, my friends, is how you open a show. Too bad J.
August Richards totally ruined the mood.
Is it me or was everyone talking really fast during this episode?
That opening sequence was all smooth and slow and then we just dove right the heck into fast-talking office-speak and,
I tell you what, I spent the rest of the episode playing catch-up.
Continue reading Conviction: Madness
Posted Apr 1st 2006 3:37PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order

Once again, lots of things happen. Christina (Julianne
Nicholson) is heartbroken over an emotional case involving a dead baby, Billy (J. August Richards) is trying to keep
his perfect record in the courtroom, Cabot (Stephanie March) and Steele (Anson Mount) get it on, Potter (Jordan
Bridges) grows some balls, and Peluso (Eric Balfour) hounds the beautiful but icey girl in the office. By the way, did
anybody catch why the title of this episode is 'Savasana'? I don't get it.
Well, Billy is a jerk. In his
personal life and his work life. He sleeps with a girl who turns out to be a clerk and then totally shrugs her off when
he sees her in the courthouse. But, even worse than that was his attempt to get a woman to drop her 1974 rape case
because it wasn't a slam dunk for him. He tells the rape victim, "I don't want to put you through any unnecessary
pain." Grrrr.
Continue reading Conviction: Savasana
Posted Mar 18th 2006 5:11PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd

I thought this week's episode of
Conviction was
much, much better than last week's episode. I still think that there are too many storylines in each episode, making it
hard to care too much for any particular character. But, the multiple storyline thing seems to be the M.O. for this
show. So be it.
Continue reading Conviction: Breakup
Posted Mar 11th 2006 12:38PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd

Is anybody else wondering where this show is
going? It's trying to balance a procedural drama, which is Dick Wolf's cup of tea, with a bunch of personal storylines,
which are usually not included in Dick Wolf shows. It seems clumsy, fragmented, and packed with too much information. I
still don't know any of the characters' names and I feel like I'm not getting any time to get to know them because the
show jumps from character to character so quickly.
Continue reading Conviction: Denial