Gothamist: Sayonara, Serena Southerlyn

varney

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:36:17 -0500

Are you kidding? My favorite ADA remains Claire Kincaid. I liked Robinette just fine, found the Lowell character bland and boring (despite her looks), but I loathe, just despise Harmon as an actress, a model, and especially her character on L&O. Particularly her kneejerk reactions against women. I feel Southerlyns outbursts of ethical annoyance against Jack to be generally justified. So, shrill or not, she is my fave since the death of Claire. (Thank god for Crossing Jordan)

varney

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:34:48 -0500

varney

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:32:48 -0500

Lisa

Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:59:09 -0500

Eliz was not awful on "Angel." She wasn't great, but she didn't stink up the joint. I do think she kind of stunk up the joint on "L&O," though. Jill H. was the best, in my humble opine, but I do miss Michael Moriarty. He brought a certain something to the show... And I miss Chris Noth, 'cuz he's a looker. I like Jessie Martin. He's fine. And Dennis Farina should be a great addition, although I'll miss Lenny Briscoe's character. I'd be really surprised if Eliz R. has any kind of great career in front of her...unless she loses the bug up the butt. Man... Loosen up, girl!

Jen W

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:55:01 -0500

They should kill her off like they did Poochy on "The Simpsons."

Mollie

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:28:34 -0500

Hooray! The vacant ADA departs! She always looks like she's trying really hard to recite the lines earnestly, even though she doesn't understand them. It's like watching Dubya speak. But if you want to talk about great L&O ADAs, I think it's only fair to look to SVU's Stephanie March (and her dramatic faked-death departure). I think the mob should have something to do with Rohm's disappearance.

Daniella

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:43:59 -0500

How about Parker Posey as an activist ADA? Or Jennifer Jason Leigh--her career is in the toilet anyway. Just don't let her bring back that awful clipped accent she used when she was in the Hudsucker Proxy or when she played Dorothy Parker...

Jen W

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:43:59 -0500

Because Jack McCoy is contractually obligated to hit it with his ADA. It's also a ratings thing. IIRC, L&O was on its way to being cancelled b/c it wasn't attracting a wide enough demographic. After they brought on women castmembers, the show began to do better.

Turkishjade

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:07:42 -0500

I'm glad she is gone, but I'm worried who they'll bring. Just a thought, but why does the role demand a woman?

editor

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:59:42 -0500

In retrospect, Carey Lowell's Jamie Ross definitely could go head-to-head with Jill Hennessey's Claire Kincaid. But, Claire being dead, and Jamie Ross likely to pop up as a judge in L&O 4, those ain't gonna happen. I'd like to see someone a little more, shall we say, ethnic, in the role. Poor Robinette: He was excellent and got shafted.

Dirk

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:01:59 -0500

Hands down Carey Lowell has been the best ADA on L&O. Though Rohm isn't that bad -- she's a lot better than that blonde one who was on SVU.

Frankenstein

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:38:39 -0500

Rohm does win, hands down, for 'most glammed-up' ADA. What with the new haircut and everything, she's been smokin'.

Jen

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:28:32 -0500

I think she died later - at least according to recap. And Dick Wolf and Jerry Orbach referred to her being dead at the Times Talk.

Peter Everhard

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:23:40 -0500

Reportedly, when Dino DeLaurentis' son brought in Meryl Streep to try to interest his father in doing a high brow movie with Streep, the elder DeLaurenteis looked up briefly from working at his desk and said: "She's not even pretty, why do you waste my time", in Italian (Meryl Streep speaks Italian) With respect to Elisabeth Rohm, I would say "She's pretty, she's talented and she doesn't make me want to puke". There is one ADA on one Law and Order whose teeth look like fake pearls or something, they don't look like teeth.

Kristen

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:04:07 -0500

If memory serves, Jill wasn't in a body bag, she was just a 'vegetable' in an upstate facility who was dealing with bad 'head injuries'... You must double check with BK on this...

tien

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:55:53 -0500

Oudemia, if anything it was inadvertent. it was more of chant. kind of like the ads for autoland which go "auto land!" but with the 1-800 thing.

jake

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:54:01 -0500

she was really great in the middle seasons on angel, playing of all things a world weary cop.

map

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:23:53 -0500

thank g-d!

panos

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:21:49 -0500

man, I just want stone and ADA robinette back.

Oudemia

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:49:34 -0500

Aw, come on. Claire was the best ADA, and Angie Harmon's acting skills are only marginally better than Rohm's. And, hey Tien! Were you quoting the Effigies (Chicago, 80s, punk rock) song, whose chorus consists of "Body bag! Body bag!"? Interesting tie-in -- their frontman, John Kezdy, is now a prosecutor in Illinois (and a Federalist Society Republican).

tien

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:22:32 -0500

body bag! body bag!

sheila

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:22:05 -0500

I see an opportunity for a fresh young actress: http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2004/06/02/subway_shooting_in_midtown.php Maybe when they get around to dramatizing her shooting, she can be the ADA on the case.

Kristen

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:00:59 -0500

Interestingly, I think that Jill didn't die but rather ended up with the old 'head injury' and was in a clinic upstate...