Is it me or have Law & Order reruns caught on specifically with middle-aged women? For years, my mom has watched on average two a night. She's seen them all by now, she must have, yet she continues to watch them as if for the first time. She has been reading mystery novels for most of her life, and there are only so many ways to kill someone. Surely she's read of them all or seen them on tv by now. How can they continue to surprise her? How can she forget a Season 1 episode outcome enough to watch it and still be engrossed?
Dannette/Sharise once told me that she's too old for Donard. She never said his age, but I know she's 39. She said that he wants to go to the South Side of Chicago (from Romeoville) all the time and get wasted and party, and she just wants to sit and watch Law & Order all night after work. If she's disturbed during her L&O episode, she won't look up or answer until commercial break.
I'm reading a book right now, Eleanor Rigby by that great Canadian, Douglas Coupland, and the main character, Liz, also watches Law & Order repeats religiously. Is this just a string of coincidences, or is this a pattern?
I don't know any men that watch the reruns like these women do. That doesn't mean they can't, I'm just pointing out what I've noticed. I haven't seen the show since Angie Harmon left. She was my favorite ADA. Does Dick Wolf know something about the female race and his tv shows? Are they psychologically tailored for women, or is that some unintended consequence?
Or perhaps, I'm just reading way too much into nothing.
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