Talk:Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 1

Suggestions for further improvement
In passing this as a good article, I have made the following notes, comments and suggestions for further improvement;


 * Overlinking

I still feel that there are too many wikilinks in the article, and some that do not really add information that is relevent. I realise that this is a matter of taste, but I feel that it would become an issue in an FA review. For example, in "Distribution", ...premiered during the 2001–2002 television season on the American terrestrial television network NBC. The pilot episode, titled "One", aired on Sunday September 30, 2001 at 9:00 p.m. EST. Episodes aired weekly until December, when the show took a brief hiatus until January... In the above, I am not sure that it is necessary to link "terrestrial television", "NBC", "pilot episode", "EST" and "hiatus". In reviewing, I have removed some wikilinks, but I feel that others could go without detracting from the article content.


 * Grammar and prose


 * Lede, "an American police procedural television series developed by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, began airing on September 30, 2001 on NBC, a national broadcast television network."
 * Needs clarification re. "national" - ie that it is an American national broadcast network - I can't think of the best way to do this and avoid repeating "American".
 * ✅ with "a national broadcast television network in the United States". Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * "The season was nominated for four awards, and was described as the most impressive" - the "described" part needs a cited mention in the body text.
 * ✅ "In Entertainment Weekly, Ken Tucker wrote that Law & Order: Criminal Intent was the best series of the year from the Law & Order franchise" Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Lede, general comment - The production section overlaps a lot with the lede; it's almost like a second lede with citations, and the intro is a little detailed. Keeping in mind that this article is just for season 1, we might want to consider making the first two paragraphs of Production into the introduction, and then leave the third paragraph which is season 1 production information. Maybe retain the last paragraph of the current introduction as well, since it's season specific.
 * In other words, as this article is only for season 1, it does include a lot of material about the show in general.
 * ✅ I think. I reduced and merged the second and third paragraphs of the Lede Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Multi references for one fact - there are several places where 2 or even 3 references are used to verify one sentence, and this may not be necessary.
 * I don't really think this is a problem. More sources=a more reliable article Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Cast - "Law & Order: Criminal Intent does not have an ensemble cast,[14] and therefore differs from Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit which, at the time this season premiered, featured six and eight actors receiving star billing respectively." - could this be rewritten more clearly?
 * ✅ Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * "a hyper-intuitive contemporary Sherlock Holmes-type investigator" - Doesn't sound very neutral, and I can't find a specific ref in the source (which, being NBC, may be primary anyway) - could this be made more neutral whilst still giving the information?
 * I've tried playing but can't think of any other way to word it. Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * "Balcer, ironically, has stated Eames was cast because "she just looked like a real cop."" - Can we remove 'ironically' - sounds a bit like a matter of opinion; again, I appreciate that the ref probably says that, but it doesn't sound very encyclopaedic
 * ✅ Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Plot summaries - some non-encyclopaedic language needs improving - e.g. "The detectives dig deeper, " and "The detectives take heat from Captain Deakins"
 * ✅ Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * "The Good Doctor" - I don't quite understand this sentence, and I think it needs a rewrite; "Weeks later, when the body parts from a decomposed woman wash ashore, the detectives set a trap and have a story placed in the papers claiming they are from the missing woman to see how her husband reacts, in an attempt to turn his strong ego against him and discover the truth"
 * ✅ Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Episode 10 - "When DNA from Kit and Edward are found in Harold's bed, the detectives suspect Harold was using them as evidence to divorce Kit, but Kit and Edward deny sleeping with each other; Edward is gay. Suspicion falls on Zainer, who admits to sleeping with Edward and turning the three family members against each other, as revenge for Harold failing to deliver on a promise to write letters of recommendation for Zainer's sons to enter an elite private school. " - this needs rewriting, I must admit I gave up on this one!
 * Not sure what's wrong with this. His wife and son's DNA are found in the bed, which was planted by Zanier when he slept with Edward. He slept with Edward to get Edward's DNA into the bed, so he could turn the old man, his wife and his son against each other, as revenge for the old man not delivering on a promise. Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * ep 14 "He denies that anything is wrong to his mother-in-law, but she goes to the Major Case Squad with her suspicions that the family was kidnapped for ransom. " - clumsy grammar


 * ep 20 "investigating the illegal public employee practice of double-dipping, shaking down drug dealers, or getting paid two salaries at once" - what is double-dipping?
 * double dip Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  10:42, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I think I've addressed most things. Hopefully it will be FAC-ready very soon. Matthewedwards : Chat  20:52, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

challenge-
I don't usually participate in these reviews, so I do not know the format, but I challenge this as even a GA because of the inadequacy of the summaries, which has also been noticed above by matthewedwards. Many of them hang in midair and are more like teasers. Some of the episodes may indeed end up without a resolution, but this should be indicated.  DGG ( talk ) 23:36, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

DVD release date is wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.54.110.49 (talk) 19:02, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Smothered case
Episode 3, Smothered, is listed in the beginning as being inspired by actual events. Does anyone have an event they can correspond to it? --JY23 (talk) 20:43, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Colour contrast problems
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