Law & Order: Criminal Intent - The Seventh Year [DVD]

Season six didn't really feel like the show anymore. But season 7 felt different in a good way. Here we have everyone returning from season 6, except Jullianne Nicholson who was pregnant. Alicia Witt take her place for a short while in the same sense that Micheal Imporeli takes over for Jesse L. Martin in season 15 of Law & Order. Her character is described as a "hot-head," thus giving Chris Noth's Logan a chance to be the diplomat or the voice of reason. In the season opener, we see the Goren, Eames and Ross respond to the shooting of a police officer. Detective Eames' deceased husband's old partner. It gets personal as Goren outs a cop's disability and re-open's Eames' husband's murder. Most if not all the episodes were top-notch. Warren Leight has made the necessary improvements in season 7 that were needed in season 6. The one change I am not so found of was the Law & Order: Trial By Jury style opening credits and theme music that was for the USA Network airings of new Criminal Intent episodes. It's funny how season 6 was less dark with a serious opening and season 7 was more darker with a fast-paced or even upbeat opening. There are also some noticeable flaws on the Shout Factory DVD box. Dick Wolf's last name is spelled "Wolfe" despite his name showing up at least three times throughout an episode and it is mislabeled as the '08-'09 season when in fact it was the '07-'08 season. Hopefully the Shout Factory will pay more attention to future projects and avoid repeats of such mistakes. I strongly recommend that you buy this season despite the minor issues. It's definitely well-written overall and the very compact without having to resort to the annoying double-sided disk. Also this marks Chris Noth's last season as Detective Micheal Logan. Not just in Criminal Intent, but in the entire franchise.

Seven Seven brings with it many heart wrenching episodes for the Goren/Eames partnership. I especially loved the episode "Amends" where we see the other side to Eames. Her performance in this episode outshone everyone, including her partner whose gentleness and sensitivity was well played by D'onofrio. I wish that Eames got more roles like this to play, because she did it very well. I am impressed with the tortured, mourning uneasy self that Goren depicts, knowing that he is walking on uncertain ground in this season.Captain Ross continues to play a fine role in this series with his wry, deadpan comments and his ability to control his team despite his height. I like him the best of all the captains for this series and believe me, that world weary turn of phrase that he is good for makes the episodes all the better.I was never really too impressed with Mike Logan's character and his plethora of partners, but here he gets some really cracking cases to work with and the character takes off, so to speak. I don't care for the Falacci character myself and yes, she is damn irritating. Thank god she gets replaced.All I can say is that you will not be disappointed with this season. Can't wait for Season 8!!!!!

I was a fan of "L&O: CI when I watch the first season on TV. And when they started spicing it up with Jullianne Nicholson, Chris Noth, Alicia Witt, and Jeff Goldblum among others. It really made the show engaging.

Una de mis series favorita, lamentablemente esta temporada no esta subtitulada en español ni en ningún idioma.

I'm a big CRIMINAL INTENT fan: I own seasons 1-9 on DVD. I don't have a TV, but TV on DVD is my crack cocaine: it diverts me away from what I should be doing; I watch an episode, then another episode, then another episode, repeat, repeat, repeat, then I notice that I'm exhausted and it's time for bed. So, I know from experience that I don't dare start watching DVDs until I've already done my writing for the day and I'm too burnt-out to get anything else done constructively. I like how in season seven they alternate episodes with the original team of detectives and bring in Chris Noth & partner for the other ones. The only thing I don't like about some of these episodes is the final confession sequence with the ramped-up music (all seasons). But on re-watchings I just fast forward through that, or jump to the next episode. @hg47

While the plots continue to be as good as ever, as well as the acting, I feel this season is not as good as its predecessors for the following reasons (spoilers):- the sudden cast swap out continues, so one fortnight we still have Detective Nola Falacci paired with Mike Logan, then the next fortnight we have Detective Megan Wheeler back with the explanation that she is back from training. But the previous related episode did not give any hint that it was the last pairing of Falacci. This is poor continuity, although not as bad as previous seasons.- the development of the plot around the personal life of Robert Goren has stopped, although so much of the previous season was affected by this storyline.

I had never seen any of the Law and Order shows while they were on the air. A couple friends mentioned they liked watching the original show. I found the two spinoffs on sale one holiday weekend and bought several as part of my donation to my local library tithe. I had always liked Vincent in the movies I had seen him in. Nice surprise to see him in a TV show since I don't watch much commercial TV. Nave gotten into some good shows that I get from the library on DVD.

Love this series! DVDs work great.

Excellent for the primary cop actors who make this a memorable collection.

This was an excellent drama series about murder investigations and prosecutions. The acting is very good and the stories are interesting. Each episode is about 45 minutes. This DVD set has 22 episodes that originally aired during the 2007/2008 season. It is too bad that this series went off the air in 2011 because it was very well-written and quite suspenseful.

J'adore cette série

I always like Criminal Intent and it is nice to see them again. I rememberall the the episodes so this ia a great review for me.

i love all law & order shows