April 23, 2008
Bye, Jesse: Law & Order Cast Revolves Yet Again
In the Law and Order universe there are two separate yet equally important constants: the format of the show and the revolving door of the actors who star in it. So it is not a surprise that Jessie L. Martin who plays Detective Green is leaving the show in the latest cast change. Series guru Dick Wolf says the parting is amicable, with Martin being burned out after playing the same character for nine years.
Since it is Law & Order there is of course a twist or two, with the promos that claim tonight's episode (10:00 p.m., WNBC 4) will be an “event” and revealing that he’ll be a defendant in his final episode, which oddly enough is not the season finale. Hopefully the resolution will be better than being Logan being shipped off to Staten Island or Cerreta getting shot and sent off to a desk job in Elmhurst.
His spot as lead detective for the will be taken by Anthony Anderson, late of the failed Fox cop show K-Ville, playing a former internal affairs detective. Anderson’s character Kevin Bernard will be introduced tonight as one of the detectives investigating Green. He’ll step into the lead role for the rest of the season starting next week--he was recently in a Brooklyn homeowner's house, filming a L&O scene with Jeremy Sisto and an actor frying up some bacon.
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And thus passes the last person left on the show that I liked.
is it because he's gay?
Nice one, Zodak.
And I will really miss Jesse L. Martin.
I would have thought Anthony Anderson would have been cast as Detective Lucius Blaine which was his roll on L&O: SVU Episode "Fat".
He'll be opening up a restaurant in Santa Fe.
One thing that won't be changing on the L&O shows: a preposterously disproportionate share of the criminals will be white.
only because of the pool of Caucasian actors in NYC.
everybody and their uncle was on L and O and some of them twice. It's NBC not BET.
I'm gonna miss Jesse. Here's hoping that they don't ship him off to jail, as hinted, but that he can come back for an episode here and there.
Well, we still got Sam and Epatha...
I like him as the Alien baseball player on the X-Files.
Yeah, Jerkoff, that must be it. In fact there are so many white actors in NYC that the writers simply have to have neo-nazis in like every fifth episode.
wow, easy there nut luvr. you still got your COPS
so hire more minority actors. neo nazis?
Silly Law and Order and its unstable cast. It totally makes sense as to why L&O SVU is the highest rated and most successful Law and Order.
Awesome Tom Collins reference, Landor.
Anthony Anderson looks more cop-like than Jessie Martin what with the extra weight from the donut runs.
Adam Beach is also leaving SVU.