Law & Order (TV Series) Seer (2003) User Reviews

You're Perry Mason brought back from the dead

[Mrpalli77 · 9/10 · 27 November 2017]

A black couple had a little argument early in the morning; the woman was about to throw car keys out the window when she noticed a dead body on the alley. The victim (a female layout designer) was killed by a blunt object and detectives found footprints at the crime scene together with an address book. They first questioned a couple of guys she dated before the accident, then a neighbor and her best friend with whom she spent the night at a local sex club (well-known among peeping tom for the "tart party"). All the evidences lead to the mild neighbor, who actually was not her friend but her stalker (he had her pictures hanged on his workplace desk). Anyway he didn't confess the murder, stating he actually foresaw it time before and he has just tried to prevent it from happening. He claimed to be a psychic able to predict future events and defense attorney tried to claim mental defect. But trial is far from over.

Nice episode, that displayed a weak guy fell in love with a charming girl with no chance to seduce her. The psychic con man on the stand (Stephen Rowe) really made a fool of himself.

I loved her!

[Noir-It-All · 5/10 · 6 September 2021]

This isn't the first L & O episode where a hapless man had a hopeless crush on an attractive, hedonistic woman. I felt that the psychic angle unique to this episode went on too long to the detriment of the surprise suspect. The hasty wrap up in Branch's office was the result. More could have been made of why the detective didn't review certain evidence that Serena later picked up on. This was reminiscent of the significance of the evening bag found with the victim in a previous Serena episode.

She barely knows he's alive

[bkoganbing · 4/10 · 25 May 2014]

One of the more weird episodes of Law And Order has a young and hedonistic model found dead on a lonely street on the Lower East Side. The investigation leads to a neighbor of the deceased played by Robert Stanton who lives a quiet life with a big old crush on a woman who barely knows he's alive.

Stanton gives them a rather graphic account of the murder which seems to fit the evidence obtained. But he claims he has had a psychic vision of what happened.

Naturally the shrinks weigh in on both sides and we're left with a mass of confusion. Blair Brown plays Stanton's defense attorney and she's giving one good account of herself in the proceedings.

The conclusion is an unexpected twist, but the whole thing is a confused mess.

Not one of the better stories from Law And Order.

Supernatural

[TheLittleSongbird · 5/10 · 16 June 2022]

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.