L&O season 2: Episode 7
Apr. 29th, 2025 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyThis one was pretty generic, to the point where I'm not sure what it's based on. A comedian playing the Skydome Rogers Centre for the first time drops dead, poisoned by digitalis.
It ends up being convoluted, with a bunch of false leads, but basically he had a planned joke about two news anchors fucking, and a cameraman, the husband of one of them, did it. Reddit thinks it's maybe based on the affair between Mike Bullard and Cynthia Mulligan at CityTV. I think the comedian is maybe based on Russell Peters, who is very much alive. At the end Graff randomly diagnoses the husband with Retroactive Jealousy OCD, which is apparently a real thing.
The problem when you're writing any kind of character who's a famous comedian is that the jokes have to actually be funny, which these aren't. It's not helped by Graff and another one of the cops laughing at the ones we can't hear. As the show notes, there is such a thing as Second City, where many young, talented, and broke comedians work; maybe hire one of them to write the jokes.
Plot: ** (Not particularly interesting, but not insultingly bad)
Characters: * (We get another longwinded quote from Graff but it's not as fun. Bateman is into sports, but we already knew that. I guess we find out that the Crown guy is also into sports but who cares.)
Toronto: ** (One point for the wine bar in Little Italy being plausible, though they give an address and I'm pretty sure it's the ScotiaBank at College & Grace. A second point for Second City. No further points because the comedian character is 45 years old, which means that he would be constitutionally incapable of hearing someone say "Rogers Centre" without saying "Well actually, it's the Skydome.")
Murder count: Still sitting at 11 IRL murders, so the show now covers 73% of all murders in Toronto.
It ends up being convoluted, with a bunch of false leads, but basically he had a planned joke about two news anchors fucking, and a cameraman, the husband of one of them, did it. Reddit thinks it's maybe based on the affair between Mike Bullard and Cynthia Mulligan at CityTV. I think the comedian is maybe based on Russell Peters, who is very much alive. At the end Graff randomly diagnoses the husband with Retroactive Jealousy OCD, which is apparently a real thing.
The problem when you're writing any kind of character who's a famous comedian is that the jokes have to actually be funny, which these aren't. It's not helped by Graff and another one of the cops laughing at the ones we can't hear. As the show notes, there is such a thing as Second City, where many young, talented, and broke comedians work; maybe hire one of them to write the jokes.
Plot: ** (Not particularly interesting, but not insultingly bad)
Characters: * (We get another longwinded quote from Graff but it's not as fun. Bateman is into sports, but we already knew that. I guess we find out that the Crown guy is also into sports but who cares.)
Toronto: ** (One point for the wine bar in Little Italy being plausible, though they give an address and I'm pretty sure it's the ScotiaBank at College & Grace. A second point for Second City. No further points because the comedian character is 45 years old, which means that he would be constitutionally incapable of hearing someone say "Rogers Centre" without saying "Well actually, it's the Skydome.")
Murder count: Still sitting at 11 IRL murders, so the show now covers 73% of all murders in Toronto.
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