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L&O season 2: Episode 9
May. 13th, 2025 07:12 pm Did you miss these? I've been busy with life and watching Andor.
Okay finally finally Law & Order Toronto is tackling Barry and Honey Sherman, which I have been looking forward to since they announced the show. It also tackled the Ontario Science Centre closure by the Ford government. The former crime is unsolved; the latter is out in the open despite Doug Ford still wandering around a free man somehow.
Anyway, the problem is once again that the actual cases are both more interesting than the plot we get here.
A pharma CEO and his philanthropist wife are murdered in what at first looks like a murder-suicide but isn't. With the company's sale to a larger company pending, there are a lot of potential suspects. She's also posed to look like a painting that she overpaid for at an auction, and that her best friend/interior designer wanted but couldn't afford. The designer, as well as the pharma CEO's brother, both have a decent motive to kill her. On top of that, she was on the board for the Ontario Science Centre, which a developer wanted to close in order to build luxury condos on it.
The killer is the designer's husband, and his motivation was that the developer bribed him to get rid of the philanthropist, who was only one holding out against the sale. Yawn. So really none of the reasons why the Shermans' murder is interesting, and none of the reasons why the closure of the OSC is criminal rather than simply corrupt.
Okay finally finally Law & Order Toronto is tackling Barry and Honey Sherman, which I have been looking forward to since they announced the show. It also tackled the Ontario Science Centre closure by the Ford government. The former crime is unsolved; the latter is out in the open despite Doug Ford still wandering around a free man somehow.
Anyway, the problem is once again that the actual cases are both more interesting than the plot we get here.
A pharma CEO and his philanthropist wife are murdered in what at first looks like a murder-suicide but isn't. With the company's sale to a larger company pending, there are a lot of potential suspects. She's also posed to look like a painting that she overpaid for at an auction, and that her best friend/interior designer wanted but couldn't afford. The designer, as well as the pharma CEO's brother, both have a decent motive to kill her. On top of that, she was on the board for the Ontario Science Centre, which a developer wanted to close in order to build luxury condos on it.
The killer is the designer's husband, and his motivation was that the developer bribed him to get rid of the philanthropist, who was only one holding out against the sale. Yawn. So really none of the reasons why the Shermans' murder is interesting, and none of the reasons why the closure of the OSC is criminal rather than simply corrupt.
Plot: ** (loses one point for each case that it's less interesting than)
Characters: * (Graff tries to ask Bateman out on a date and then fumbles the pass by also inviting her daughter)
Toronto: *** (Some good Toronto content, including a beautiful shot of Nathan Phillips Square and City Hall, a Sick Kids auction, and the controversies surrounding development in Don Mills. I'm less sure about the locations of the two houses and in general I don't know enough about rich people taste to be able to tell. Someone needs to invite me to the Bridal Path for research purposes)
Murder count: 12, not including the murder of the Ontario Science Centre and the happiness of many generations of children. The 2025 murder rate in Toronto remains at 11, so TORONTO'S WAR ON CRIME is officially more violent on the show than in real life.
Murder count: 12, not including the murder of the Ontario Science Centre and the happiness of many generations of children. The 2025 murder rate in Toronto remains at 11, so TORONTO'S WAR ON CRIME is officially more violent on the show than in real life.
