A murder suspect uses his "psychic powers" to lead detective Green to the crime scene and murder weapon. Is he truly psychic, or just an obsessed stalker?A murder suspect uses his "psychic powers" to lead detective Green to the crime scene and murder weapon. Is he truly psychic, or just an obsessed stalker?A murder suspect uses his "psychic powers" to lead detective Green to the crime scene and murder weapon. Is he truly psychic, or just an obsessed stalker?
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Fred Thompson
- DA Arthur Branch
- (as Fred Dalton Thompson)
Salvatore Cavaliere
- CSU Technician Belcher
- (as Sal Cavaliere)
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- TriviaVirginia Masters (Blair Brown) quotes the line, "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy," which is taken from Act 1 Scene 5 of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
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Jack McCoy: [at a self-proclaimed psychic's trial] How's this trial going to turn out?
Virginia Masters: Objection!
Judge Ian Feist: That's very funny, Counselor. Don't do it again.
- ConnectionsReferences Perry Mason (1957)
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Actually started watching 'Law and Order' from the later episodes of the Briscoe and Green period. Seeing the whole Briscoe and Green period overtime, there were many real winners and disappointments, while there, were not many. The earlier episodes of theirs faring more consistently. "Seer" is one of the few episodes of Season 13 where the premise didn't excite me all that much, due to having seen it done before and better and with it being one that could potentially be far fetched.
"Seer" is the one episode of Season 13 to not do very much for me. "The Wheel" also was below the season's general standard, but that still managed to be slightly above average, whereas "Seer" has always just about reached average. Is it a terrible episode? No it isn't, don't think there is an inherently terrible episode of 'Law and Order', even when it declined post-Briscoe. Is it classic 'Law and Order?' No, a long way from that, due to primarily having one of the few un-compelling stories.
There are good things. Production values are slick and professional, not ever resorting to cheap or untested gimmicks or anything. The music is haunting in the right places and isn't constant or too loud, and there are times where the direction does give the drama urgency and breathing space in the latter stages.
Can't fault the performances from most of the regulars, Jerry Orbach and Jesse L Martin work so well together (my personal favourite police partnership for the show), Sam Waterston does authoritative with such command and Andrew Stanton is suitably creepy. The episode starts off quite well and intriguingly.
Unfortunately, this didn't stay consistent. "Seer" lost me quite early and it never recovered. It is far too obvious who the perpetrator is (too many vivid details, details that only the perpetrator would know despite their claims), the pace lacks tightness and the suspense factor is low. Primarily down to having seen it done before, 'Special Victims Unit' did it a lot better with Season 6's "Pure". The case also feels underdeveloped and becomes overly strange and over-complicated later on to the point of confusion.
Also found the final quarter too rushed from trying to cram in far too much, the wrap up far too hasty and neat. The dialogue is not tight enough and is as odd as the story sometimes, especially the dialogue for the perpetrator. Elisabeth Rohm is robotic.
Overall, rather indifferent here. 5/10.
"Seer" is the one episode of Season 13 to not do very much for me. "The Wheel" also was below the season's general standard, but that still managed to be slightly above average, whereas "Seer" has always just about reached average. Is it a terrible episode? No it isn't, don't think there is an inherently terrible episode of 'Law and Order', even when it declined post-Briscoe. Is it classic 'Law and Order?' No, a long way from that, due to primarily having one of the few un-compelling stories.
There are good things. Production values are slick and professional, not ever resorting to cheap or untested gimmicks or anything. The music is haunting in the right places and isn't constant or too loud, and there are times where the direction does give the drama urgency and breathing space in the latter stages.
Can't fault the performances from most of the regulars, Jerry Orbach and Jesse L Martin work so well together (my personal favourite police partnership for the show), Sam Waterston does authoritative with such command and Andrew Stanton is suitably creepy. The episode starts off quite well and intriguingly.
Unfortunately, this didn't stay consistent. "Seer" lost me quite early and it never recovered. It is far too obvious who the perpetrator is (too many vivid details, details that only the perpetrator would know despite their claims), the pace lacks tightness and the suspense factor is low. Primarily down to having seen it done before, 'Special Victims Unit' did it a lot better with Season 6's "Pure". The case also feels underdeveloped and becomes overly strange and over-complicated later on to the point of confusion.
Also found the final quarter too rushed from trying to cram in far too much, the wrap up far too hasty and neat. The dialogue is not tight enough and is as odd as the story sometimes, especially the dialogue for the perpetrator. Elisabeth Rohm is robotic.
Overall, rather indifferent here. 5/10.
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