Law & Order (TV Series) Mega (2000) User Reviews

"You're making my skin crawl"

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 15 December 2013]

This is one bloody crime scene here. Jerry Orbach and Jesse Martin catch a multiple homicide of a shuttle helicopter to JFK Airport, six passengers and a pilot, one of the passengers a child.

The investigation leads to one of the passengers who was a member of some kind of self improvement group with an exclusive membership, only people with at least seven figures in the asset column. Michael McKean is our group leader and he gets the idea that a member of his group who is currently staying with he an his wife Annette O'Toole is having an affair with him. Which offends his alpha male sensibilities since McKean has been eying his wife Dana Wheeler-Nicholson.

The evidence gathered is pretty overwhelming and McKean doesn't even go to trial, but pleads out.

That is not the end of the story. I will not reveal that because it is too bizarre, not a hint you have to see it for yourself. But Angie Harmon has that lovely piece of dialog that's at the title of this review.

Mega creepiness

[TheLittleSongbird · 8/10 · 25 November 2021]

Anybody who has read any of my other reviews for for example individual episodes of the 'Law and Order' shows, am slowly working my way through writing reviews for all the episodes of 'Law and Order, 'Special Victims Unit' and 'Criminal Intent' with a long way to go, will know already how much admiration there is from me for anything that tackles difficult and controversial themes and issues. Was also intrigued in seeing Michael McKean in a different role, playing a creepy character rather than the comedy he specialised in previously.

"Mega" is another very good episode indeed, and nearly a great one, with a wonderful guest performance. It is not one of the best episodes of the mostly very solid Season 10 and this and the previous few episodes have not quite lived up to the generally great first third of the season. It is also not one of the worst and even the season at its weakest was better than the weakest of 'Special Victims Unit's' Season 10. A lot of good things can be seen here.

It is another case of one half being better than the other, where the first is interesting and well done if nothing unique and not as ceaselessly compelling as the second. It is also a bizarre episode at times, and a little too much so.

Part of me did feel that the ending was rushed and run out of gas-like, was expecting a more tense one considering the subject than the one seen here.

So much is excellent however. The production values are still slick and suitably gritty (without being too heavy in it), the location work intimate but not overly so. The music is not too melodramatic and is not used too much, even not being too manipulative in revelations. The direction is accomodating yet with momentum. All the regulars are very good, especially in the second half, but this is a case of the main guest star stealing the show. McKean brilliantly makes the skin crawl in a way one has never seen before.

Writing pulls no punches in a suitably venomous way and sears at its best. It is also lean and always provokes thought, complete with one of the best summings up of any perpetrator from any regular character of the show's mid period (around Seasons 9-13 in my view). Carmichael says out loud what the viewer thinks about McKean's character very aptly and exactly. The story is not perfect, but the second half is very engrossing and mostly tense.

In summary, very good. 8/10.

Michael McKean Can Do Anything

[naphiah · 10/10 · 12 July 2019]

Again, not to reveal a plot, this episode is a cavalcade of wonderful wonderful acting. Along with Annette O'Toole, Michael McKean is one half of a spectacular couple. They rule the world. It's a world studded with beautiful, eccentric New York actors - Peter Hermann, Bill Cwikowski, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson and Michael Port, another SATC alumnus. It's a smacking cracker world of flips and flops and the reason Michael McKean can do comedy is cuz he can also do this: portray a megalomaniac for whom one has pity.

Writers massively goofed on Federal law and procedures

[evony-jwm · 1/10 · 31 March 2021]

Totally unbelievable.

In first half goof, the NYPD do not investigate helicopter crashes, nor anyone / anything related to said as all investigations are done with FBI leadIng. The NTSB investigates anything aircraft related. Maybe the ATF rarely assists with explosives.

In second half this concocted goof is compounded with NYC Soros funded DA prosecuting a Federal case.