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Released: April 3, 2007 |
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Editorial Review:
Return to the scene of the crime with Chris Noth in his final season of the show honored by 11 consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series! All 23 compelling episodes of Law & Order: The Fifth Year are now available on DVD for the first time in this must-own 5-disc collection. Joining Detective Mike Logan (Noth) and his dedicated colleagues who investigate and prosecute crime is a powerful lineup of guest stars, including Regina Taylor, Edie Falco, Gina Torres and John Cameron Mitchell. Ripped from today's headlines, Law & Order is the gripping phenomenon that will captivate you again and again!
Law & Order - The Fifth Year (1994-1995 Season) Reviews:
Classic 
2009-11-18 - It is impossible to talk about every episode in this disc. If you watch, the absolute quality of the writting and acting that makes this show one of the best in televison, ever, will be immediately revealed.
But I picked 1994-1995 Law and Order specifically. It was the season Jerry Orbach truely nailed the essense of the great Lenny Briscoe. The year Lt. Van Burean became a staple. Most important, the officious Ben Stone was replaced by the bucking bronco, Jack McCoy. Law and Order as we know it starts here.
Law and Order is really great New York stage with great New York Stage actors, and the show has never deviated from this. The brillance is in how each twist in the show sets the next four, perfectly. The way the most offhand comments are planted and prove to be keys to solving the crime. The way the crimes imply bigger social issues: these smart charactors sometimes debate the issues, as smart people do, but never in a way that sounds contrived or accidemic. You have to be smart to get the show, becuase Law and Order is so smart. It talks up to you, never down.
I was recently watching a 20th aniversery documentry on the show. Jeramy Sisto said that if you want to understand New York, and America, in our times, watch Law and Order: you'll see the high crime, crack infested, New York. The cleaned up, Gulianni, Nasdaq rocketing New York. New York experiancing and trying to come to grips with 9/11, and finally, the Bloomberg New York we know in 2009; recovered, but still dealing with incremental after shocks.
Stone, McCoy, Shiff, Lewin, Brnach, Kincaid, Ross, Caremichal, Southerland Cutter, Rubarosa. Law and Order has run our times through so many different perspectives, we can't help but watch it over and over both as history and drama. (And you gotta admit, all the assistants have been lookers. No wonder Jack got himself into trouble, at least before Kinkaid died)
You rarely see them at home. These people rarely show a soft side, forgiveness, pity. You always know it is there. Some are probably teddy bears after five o'clock. But these people are at work, and the work is to put very bad people in a very bad place--brass nuckles required.. It is waiting to see the occasional humaness of the charactors that keeps me watching.
Sisto, Anderson and Roche are great actors, and , this show still works. I will always watch. But I miss Briscoe, and that young, black haired maneater McCoy, grinding the sausage at any cost. If you feel that way, get 1994-1995. It all, officially, starts here.
One more outstanding year...
2008-11-03 - Law & Order continues to be my favorite series ever...the writers must be getting their material from real life...the variety is too great and creative to be coming from any limited number of individuals...must be coming from real, creative criminal activities. The shows are thought-provking and enticing, and it's tough to see any other future for this series than 'keep going!!'.
Farewell to Logan
2008-07-19 - Classic L&O and the last season with my all time favorite detective, Mike Logan (Until he resurfaced again in Criminal Intent).
A Great Series
2008-07-15 - This is the very best in television. When can we expect Season 6 to come out on DVD???
Excellent Product & Service
2007-10-04 - The Law & Order (Fifth Year) series is excellent. I'm a huge fan of L&O and all of the spin off shows. This particular year was Chris Noth's last year as Mike Logan (until he returned to L&O CI in 2005). He was teamed with Jerry Orbach, and I think those two were the best L&O team ever. I have watched the entire series twice now and am sure I will enjoy them again and again.
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