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Wednesday, January 12, 2005


Our long national nightmare is over

It took nearly four years, but Elisabeth Rohm has finally left Law & Order. Her character, Serena Southerlyn, was fired Trump-style and revealed from nowhere that she was a lesbian. And while that means we will be subjected to an episode in which she returns as a defense attorney, it's a small price to pay to be rid of her on a weekly basis.
Of course that only begins to scratch the surface here. Rohm ruined a way of life. Law and Order is on television 100 times a night, and used to be something reliable to watch when you didn't have anything else to do. But there are some 80 episodes now that fizzle out at the halfway mark. Suddenly comes this dithering blond who can't deliver the lines that have been written for her. It's just exasperating. They are unwatchable.

The legalese on the show completely conquered Rohm. She couldn't get her mouth around the words, to the point where the episode all but stops at the halfway mark. The only show on which she would have been a worse fit is ER. I don't understand how she lasted this long. Dick Wolf should return some of the money TNT gives him for the rights to the reruns.

4 Comment(s):

  •   Posted by Blogger Form at January 13, 2005 5:32 AM | Permanent Link to this Comment
  • Too bad this stuff doesn't work American Idol style, where I would be texting Fred Dalton Thompson's character off the show next.

    By the way, not only was Eilsabeth Rohm's character a lesbian, she was having an affair with Mischa Barton's character from the O.C.

  •   Posted by Blogger Form at January 13, 2005 5:40 AM | Permanent Link to this Comment
  • Actually, Serena's character will be replaced by a Jetta.

    http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000233027253/

  •   Posted by Blogger Unknown at January 13, 2005 9:23 AM | Permanent Link to this Comment
  • Imagining Sam Waterston talking to a car like in that David Hasselhoff is brilliant. The O.C. reference zoomed straight over my head though.

  •   Posted by Anonymous Roulette Games at May 18, 2011 8:57 AM | Permanent Link to this Comment
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