Here is the discussion topic for Law & Order, “Into The Mystic ” ” which aired on Thursday, October 15, 2026. Please feel free to add any feedback you have about this episode in the comments!
Here is the discussion topic for Law & Order, “Into The Mystic ” ” which aired on Thursday, October 15, 2026. Please feel free to add any feedback you have about this episode in the comments!
3 comments:
Since the revival, I've been searching for the words to describe it properly. And I think I've landed on those words. Sloppy and rushed. That was this episode and the stakes just didn't feel earned. Such as Walker and Riley's relationship that just started last season. And was shown to be rocky at best. More breadcrumbs laid (corruption in the DA's office) that probably will never be followed up on. We're at what, 3 or 4 of those storylines now? I also came away from this episode believing even more that the legal side needs a shakeup. I found Baxter and his opening more convincing than I've ever found Price. I know Hugh Dancy is a good actor, but this is just not the role for him. On the plus side, I enjoyed the new detective. Gave an old school, almost Briscoe vibe. I hope he sticks around. I don't know but this episode just didn't do it for me. Ranks last in the episodes where a L&O detective has been killed off. Yes that includes the LOLA episode where they killed off Rex Winters (Skeet Ulrich).
Maybe it’s just me, but I really enjoyed this one! While it was a little rushed, it gripped me. The writing was much tighter than most of the revival episodes. Also, I love Price, but man, watching Baxter in court was fantastic. I wish there was a universe where Baxter had been an ADA working under McCoy!!!
I just found this exceedingly bland. Lots of holes/things not explained. The most interesting thing was early on that Riley was sending money to the wife of the guy he accidentally killed. Surely the wife knew about that. Why wouldn't he tell her or why didn't she care he was pulling all that money out? Then there is Nolan jumping to the conclusion the killer was after him because the bar was a few blocks from his apartment. He didn't know he was stalking him until later. Theo barging in and wanting to help the investigation, when he was clearly told to stay home was textbook cliche cop stuff. A waste of a scene. The hand wringing about the case being hard to win because they didn't have the gun was overwrought too. They try cases without weapons all the time. It's shocking they didn't have any camera footage of the killer fleeing (gun in hand or not) given how often they pull camera footage. If not outside the bar on in the intersection itself, what about the streets he fled down? And the defense case was so insanely weak, yet they acted like the case was 50/50. So he filed a lawsuit about his brother's conviction (which was based on DNA evidence). But no notion of who must have done that instead. Only "corruption in the DAs office" which is code for "we have no defense." And we never hear more about either, just the aforementioned DNA evidence that convicted the brother. The killer never testifies about any of it, and we don't even get any theories from the defense attorney. The court side was basically speed run, so Theo and Riley's ne'er-do-well brother can't act like the case is in real jeopardy, and Theo can do something skeevy to "get justice."
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