Haphazard Jury Verdicts

LYNDA LA PLANTE — TRIAL & RETRIBUTION — THE COMPLETE COLLECTION — 1997–2009/2010

It is not a series in the generally accepted meaning. It is a collection of fully self-contained and rather long episodes. Each episode is a case, and few elements are overlapping from one episode to the others, apart from the personal relationships between and among the members of the team. The various members also have personal careers, which means one can move out, and another can move up. And they have some family life, at least some members of the team do have wives and children, living as families or divorced and separate, which is not always easy for both divorcees. The other members of the team are more discreet but most of the time the relationships that are brought up are temporary, transient, with no duration or perennity.

It is thus easy to take the episodes one after the others, in any order even, which makes the end of the “series” easy. It just stopped after a certain episode which is a final episode, but nothing really happens that would explain the disbanding of the team, the death of one or two members. It is just the end of the collection. Sorry folks, no…