Original Law and order The play premiered on Thursday, September 13, 1990. 14 million people watched. On December 16th, 34 years later, the show was inexplicably absent for many years in the past few seasons of the drama. Now, the first 20 seasons have a total of 456 episodes -published on Hulu and directly enter my living room. Dun Dun.
Not long ago, when we got most of the entertainment from the TV channel, it was difficult to turn on the TV without encountering a person. Law and order Restart. This is mashed The first ten years of the 21st century. Every time you open the field, you pray that this is a episode of Jerry Olbach. But I haven't seen them for many years. During the holidays, I returned to New York again, and quickly found that I re -experienced a New York that is no longer, but sometimes I felt extremely familiar. Even aggressive.
If you were eager to live in New York City before the Internet appeared, the small newspaper dominated at that time, the telephone kiosk was not just decorations, but if you return I found out what I would like to live in the United States in the next four years, and the previous seasons of the original work Law and order (Also known as Legal and order: Mother ship) You cover it. Few programs can provide such a comprehensive opportunity to travel.
One of the reasons was filmed on the streets of New York, which was unusual at the time. The show hired many local actors, and a producer claimed that everyone on the Broadway bill appeared at least one episode. Some parts of this city also appeared in each episode, so the drama, especially in the past few seasons, assumed dual responsibilities, as a strange oral history in New York City at the end of the millennium. This is the city. In the last ten years before the Internet became our communication, it was captured by frame, just like each mobile phone later became a camera.
This is also a map of the disappearance of New York -no store, no bank! When the story requires a scene in the dilapidated corner of Christopher and Hudson Street, the waiting alarm actually arrived at the corner of Christopher and Hudson (1990, here is dilapidated! Oh, travel through these series of cold time) travel) There is an apartment down payment at hand). In the third season, the story takes place in the courtyard of the famous Shangxi District Aripsop. Just talk about the murder in the building. Someone wants to know, is Nola Evolon watching at home? Today, you need to spend millions of dollars to see the internal style of these apartments.
The architectural number on the scene card -again, Dun Dun — adjusted (if they exist in reality, many apartments will be located in the Hudson River or somewhere in the middle of the East River), but in addition to that, in the early years, in the early years Basically stagnate the truth. No matter what the show provides, this is the dream of real estate fans in New York. And remind people that some parts of the city (wealthy part) basically remain unchanged, while other parts are all right.
In the 1990s, the city has experienced a shocking ten years under the leadership of the mayor Rudy Juliani. When the play was premiered, the murder rate in New York reached the highest level since the record. In just a few years, it plunged to the level that had not been seen in nearly half a century. "One period", before New York Observer Editor Peter Caplan once wrote, "When everything seems to have nothing wrong."
In the first season, this violent and criminal city has its own characteristics. Thirty years later, it is difficult to remember now Law and order Franchise rights dominate our TV experience, but one of the uniqueness of the play is that it lacks luster. The main role -at the beginning, men -have almost no background stories. On the contrary, we understand them through how they interact with New York, represented by suspects, witnesses, judges, especially passers -by. exist Law and order In the universe, both police and law are heroes. They are representatives of some power, and these powers are constantly questioned by the show, and for those who pay attention to the abolition of police theory in the past few years, these doubts are often very familiar. People may even think that this drama is usually close to "awakening" and sometimes goes directly into it.
The only hero in the game Law and order The world is a working class in New York: grocery store workers, taxi drivers, sex workers, bartenders, female waiters, GatekeeperEssence With so many guards. (Every time I leave home these days, I can't help but want to know. If I don't come back, the guards in my building will tell the police.) And a series of trial judges (including Juliani's ex -wife Donna Hannowei And the later response to the title of Frank Lobvitz), the talents on the street were chorus of the city. The existence of any detective or police is more useful is the "eyes on the streets" as the late reporter and social activist Jane Jacobs. It is these sounds and characters that have given this drama and urban humanity in real life.
It is also well known to the hysteria of the tabloid, and it has since become our universal full -write communication method. Although each episode guarantees to the audience, "This story is fictional. Without depicting real characters or events," Earlier's early plot line can be said to be directly torn from headline news (when warning appears in the episode in the episode At the beginning instead of the end, you know you will be in trouble) a real fool). Just like "we did not set fire" on TV, you can usually track the social history of New York through these storyline -there are episodes of the Central Park Squans; an episode of the pre -murderer; the episode of "Son of Sam" —— Although they are often twisted. For example, in the episode of Bernnib Gotz, the role of Gotz is played by a woman (Simia Nixon!).
If the first half of the performance, that is, half of the law, play a role in a real -life performance New York Post Title, the second half is essentially New York Times Part of the column part of the dramatic (if the column has spent time standing from the perspective of others and/or often admits that they may be wrong). In the second half, the story has undergone tremendous changes, providing different results related to cultural debate at the time. The opportunity to explore and think of greater ideas; the judgment made by the jury is not always satisfactory.
Oh my God, are some of these stories plots very familiar with it? People were shot on the subway. The abortion doctor was murdered ("Do you notice that some people's concern for life stopped at birth," said Lieutenant Van Brun (played by S. Epatha Merkerson). A white racist serial killer is murdering blacks (James El Jones appeared in his defense lawyer). There is a financialist who was accused of murder. He said to the psychiatrist Dr. Olivette (Caroline McCowei): "Do you want to know the short -term course of the history of American racial relations? Beginning with whites trying to protect white women from the infringement of big bad black people. You don't like this block, please wait for 10 minutes, "Brisco said, echoing the famous statement of long -term residents.
It is easier to see to how much early programs are incorporated into the problems of race, feminism, terrorism and class struggle to how much the early programs; murder is just the carrier of these dialogues. They are full of exchanges. For audiences who are afraid of "awakening" in 2025, their straightforward, language, and complexity sometimes shock. Especially considering this network TV instead of cable TV shows. You just turned on the TV (when the TV received the signal through the hanger hanging on the TV), look, suddenly you start discussing the cross points of race and class, women's rights and murder. When the city broke out of racial riots, a black man was tried when a Italian man was dragged out of the car and beat him to death, and the assistant regional prosecutor Claire Kim Kaid (Gil Hennessy) reflected: "You Knowing, I don't know how I will react ... If I have been messed up by this system all my life " Law and order crime. ) "Can't she be raped because of a prostitute?" When a escort was accused of murdering a client, ADA Jamie Rose (the best ADA in ADA, played by Kerry Loyer) asked) asked) asked Essence (Prostitute's defense lawyer Rani Steiglitz- "Betty Frigan Militia" -s played by Erian Strick.)
In the world full of social media in 2025, some plots may feel like a dramatic version of Twitter posts that are particularly smart, news, or incited. For the exposure of the cultural war we caught today. I wondered more than once, did we have no progress, or we have gone back too fast now. We just moved to another darkest place in the 1990s?
That darkest place, whether it is the mothership plot, cable TV news, or the White House that is about to take office, it sounds very much like a New York Post title. Nothing is more prominent than this Law and order Biography. They are the identification of the city. Homepage of the newspaper postal It was the initial Twitter. And no one likes postal There are more presidents than us again and again.
Trump, you may be surprised to hear, or you may not be surprised to find that the factors of early events Law and order Continuously. It is not so much a role as a reference point in a casual dialogue. Thinking of thirty years ago, a long time ago, it was really shuddering apprenticeHe often plays the role of the Grand Ugly in this city, while Juliani is a "savior." Today, the transformation of these characters is so thorough and dazzling.
In fact, the city we found in the original work Law and order It was the New York born in Trump. He is a mentality that stands out from headline news. The world we will re -enter in 2025, perhaps the best description is: New York Post Headline news has moved to the world, but there are no filters of subway passengers and pedestrians on the street, nor did they all interact based on reality and humanity.
In real life in New York, tabloids are always curbed like this. this postal It is a newspaper you read on the subway. In a bar. This is public. On a crowded train, you may see it from the shoulders of the people next to them. Pick up an abandoned copy to keep you busy before the next stop, and then leave it to the next person. Between reading the title of the institutional and returning to the street, you must pass through a wall surrounded by a variety of human compatriots. You must fight with real people. In our global network world, this buffer is lacking in danger.
Law and order Shortly after Chris Noss left, the sixth season changed. This also has traces. In 1996, AIDS cocktails came out; shortly after, the storyline of the protagonist with homosexuality entered the cultural dictionary (Robert Iverett My best friend's wedding;; Will and GraceTo. It is shocking that the city quickly became particularly safe. Rich. Celebrity driver. It almost glows. Email began to appear (confusing Briscoe: "I? I used to use a computer and lost 27 card games in a row"). The plot of the story no longer pays attention to the character of the city, but pays attention to the characters living in the city. Until this century is about to end, the story of young women with incomplete physical disability began to occupy the dominant position, and was finally stripped into its own SVU series ( I have never seen it, and I have given my respect to Olivia Bennstein).
At the same time, we have come to 2025. In the real world, we have shrank every day in one -end headlines every day. Thirty years ago, even the most extreme TV script writers would lack imagination. He is constantly hoping that the law and order can survive in the upcoming things.