Law & Order: Almost Famous" is a must-watch episode for fans of the series. The episode does an excellent job of exploring the consequences of social media fame and its impact on the lives of young people. The plot is well-crafted, with twists and turns that will keep you engaged throughout. The cast delivers strong performances, with standout roles from Jeffrey Donovan, Mehcad Brooks, Camryn Manheim, and Hugh Dancy. The episode raises important questions about the effects of social media on reality, morality, and self-worth, making it both thought-provoking and relevant. Overall, "Law & Order: Almost Famous" is a well-written, well-acted, and thrilling episode that is sure to impress fans of the series. Highly recommended!.
6 Reviews
Sadly This Is Real Life
shelbythuylinh3 February 2023
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How that over in the kids that are in the trying to get in the very famous. And all due to social media. And that they do not in at least in this episode care about the consequences or in the getting arrested and charged.
How that you can use on the social media on in either good or bad. This case people will be in the going out of their way to be famous. But when a teen ends up dead, it makes the DA having to go back over to square one again in order to indict a suspect.
It is one thing to be on social media if handed rightfully. But when you are in the cyber bullying and stalking crosses a very huge line. And how one defendant may turn star witness to really look at the bigger picture as to finding the real mastermind.
Really I am liking Shaw but still Frank even though in the humanizing the latter on it. Really can't get used to Frank. He is way too over the top.
How that you can use on the social media on in either good or bad. This case people will be in the going out of their way to be famous. But when a teen ends up dead, it makes the DA having to go back over to square one again in order to indict a suspect.
It is one thing to be on social media if handed rightfully. But when you are in the cyber bullying and stalking crosses a very huge line. And how one defendant may turn star witness to really look at the bigger picture as to finding the real mastermind.
Really I am liking Shaw but still Frank even though in the humanizing the latter on it. Really can't get used to Frank. He is way too over the top.
Sadly it's about the likes
safenoe14 February 2024
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Definitely Almost Famous really captures the zeitgeist of social media and the irresistibility and pull and seduction of the likes and the fame that comes with it. This is one of the first of the Law and Order reboot episodes that has had pretty much positive imdb user reviews, and I concur because sadly society has come down to this for those, especially folk who think that humiliating someone or risking life and limb is worth the fame and fortune and the likes on social media.
Impeckable Chicken is one of the fictional restaurants in Almost Famous, although a real one exists in Seattle init.
Impeckable Chicken is one of the fictional restaurants in Almost Famous, although a real one exists in Seattle init.
Pretty okay
lilpest927 January 2023
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Only nu-Law & Order I've seen. Was going to complain that the charge for the co-conspirators in the B&E should've been felony murder and not manslaughter. But looking it up the New York felony murder rule apparently follows the "agency theory"(the death must be caused by a participant in the underlying felony) and not the "proximate cause theory"(a death foreseeably caused by the underlying felony can be charged as murder).
When they were talking to the super I figured the dead guy was boning his daughter and he got jealous or whatever so that was pretty good fakeout. The chase scene was pretty good even if it didn't go anywhere. Nice enough episode, Is still prefer the classics.
When they were talking to the super I figured the dead guy was boning his daughter and he got jealous or whatever so that was pretty good fakeout. The chase scene was pretty good even if it didn't go anywhere. Nice enough episode, Is still prefer the classics.
Almost Famous
bobcobb3016 February 2023
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Despite the show likely being written by out of touch writers they almost hit all of the right notes here with this one. It almost seemed like an accurate depiction of all of the dysfunction associated with social media these days.
And the case was kind of fine. I get that there probably are managers out there manipulating young people for their own benefit, but I woudl have preferred an edgy take on social medi and who should be punihed and who shouldn't for these pranks as opposed to always taking out the main guy in charge. I feel like we get too much of this every single week across all of the Law and Order shows.
And the case was kind of fine. I get that there probably are managers out there manipulating young people for their own benefit, but I woudl have preferred an edgy take on social medi and who should be punihed and who shouldn't for these pranks as opposed to always taking out the main guy in charge. I feel like we get too much of this every single week across all of the Law and Order shows.
Took a Few Episodes Off, See It Got Worse Again
bkkaz27 January 2023
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Yet another warmed over SVU script - apparently, 90 percent of the crimes in NYC are sex crimes of some sort or another, and 99% of those are committed by men. This one concerns a teen who, at least initially, looks like he's being groomed by a former sex offender and is later found murdered.
Derp and Lurch come on the scene hot and heavy. It's interesting on the same day that Tennessee authorities announce they will release video of five former police officers beating a suspect to death, this episode airs where, among other things, Lurch arrests a guy without telling him his charges (or apparently his rights) and the squad, including Derp and Manhands, treats the guy like they've already decided he's guilty.
I get that the Law and Order franchise has largely given up on realism in their now melodramatic, soap opera presentation of what was once a respectable police procedural, but this was one of those accidental moments where in trying to make the cops look like champions of justice they out them instead as acting like judge, jury, and executioner.
Anyway, it all of course bounces back to a different suspect because you know the formula is always they go after one person, discover it's not them, and then stumble upon the real perpetrator. Then the courtroom situation will involve them taking one strategy only to discover something is amiss (with the defense usually trying to pull a "mental defect" fast one) before searching for an innovative way to convict. In between will be car, insurance, and deodorant commercials.
Speaking of the crack legal team, they decide to go after some punk who runs a social media page or something, where he gets dopey kids to risk life and limb so they become famous and get more online hits. The Garden Gnome and AOC then decide to charge him because, they argue, ultimately he's responsible for putting pressure on others that led to the death of the original victim.
There's a lot of dodgy legal stuff in Law and Order these days, but this episode seems especially so, from Lurch seemingly violating a guy's 4th and 5th Amendment rights to going after a (barely) businessman whose has signed contracts from the people he works with to deliver with amazing content.
One could argue the old Law and Order sometimes did this, but then there were scenes where the legal team debated the issue, drawing upon actual cases and precedents to try to reason out an argument that stayed within the realm of the law. This new Law and Order has none of that. Not only are such scenes missing - here it's reduced to a stairway meeting between the Garden Gnome and Sam "The Eagle" Waterston where the former proposes the idea and, after a dramatic pause, the latter gives a gruff "Okay" - but there's almost no legal unpinning whatsoever. It's all so broad now, it's pretty clear the writing team isn't interested in even the broader nuances of the law.
And, yes, the acting is still pedestrian, from the judges who seem to be reading off cue cards to the towering defense attorney who smirks and practically twirls her mustache so we hate her. That she dresses like a pool table doesn't help, either. When AOC declares - in the standard expository way of the show now - that she can't believe what the defense attorney just put a witness through, you have to wonder is she supposed to be fresh out of law school and forget last week's legal shenanigans? Oh, how I miss the quality of the original Law and Order.
Derp and Lurch come on the scene hot and heavy. It's interesting on the same day that Tennessee authorities announce they will release video of five former police officers beating a suspect to death, this episode airs where, among other things, Lurch arrests a guy without telling him his charges (or apparently his rights) and the squad, including Derp and Manhands, treats the guy like they've already decided he's guilty.
I get that the Law and Order franchise has largely given up on realism in their now melodramatic, soap opera presentation of what was once a respectable police procedural, but this was one of those accidental moments where in trying to make the cops look like champions of justice they out them instead as acting like judge, jury, and executioner.
Anyway, it all of course bounces back to a different suspect because you know the formula is always they go after one person, discover it's not them, and then stumble upon the real perpetrator. Then the courtroom situation will involve them taking one strategy only to discover something is amiss (with the defense usually trying to pull a "mental defect" fast one) before searching for an innovative way to convict. In between will be car, insurance, and deodorant commercials.
Speaking of the crack legal team, they decide to go after some punk who runs a social media page or something, where he gets dopey kids to risk life and limb so they become famous and get more online hits. The Garden Gnome and AOC then decide to charge him because, they argue, ultimately he's responsible for putting pressure on others that led to the death of the original victim.
There's a lot of dodgy legal stuff in Law and Order these days, but this episode seems especially so, from Lurch seemingly violating a guy's 4th and 5th Amendment rights to going after a (barely) businessman whose has signed contracts from the people he works with to deliver with amazing content.
One could argue the old Law and Order sometimes did this, but then there were scenes where the legal team debated the issue, drawing upon actual cases and precedents to try to reason out an argument that stayed within the realm of the law. This new Law and Order has none of that. Not only are such scenes missing - here it's reduced to a stairway meeting between the Garden Gnome and Sam "The Eagle" Waterston where the former proposes the idea and, after a dramatic pause, the latter gives a gruff "Okay" - but there's almost no legal unpinning whatsoever. It's all so broad now, it's pretty clear the writing team isn't interested in even the broader nuances of the law.
And, yes, the acting is still pedestrian, from the judges who seem to be reading off cue cards to the towering defense attorney who smirks and practically twirls her mustache so we hate her. That she dresses like a pool table doesn't help, either. When AOC declares - in the standard expository way of the show now - that she can't believe what the defense attorney just put a witness through, you have to wonder is she supposed to be fresh out of law school and forget last week's legal shenanigans? Oh, how I miss the quality of the original Law and Order.
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