Law & Order (TV Series) Over Here (2007) User Reviews

What do they think they are, The Lost Platoon?

[Mrpalli77 · 7/10 · 21 February 2018]

A bearded man bumped into a veterinarian clinic, collapsing on the ground. Despite all efforts, he died shortly after and detectives realized he was beaten to death. He was a bum who used to eat leftovers outside restaurants. He lived among garbage in a dark alley where a CCTV footage proved the beating: two people with pipes hit him very hard. His only next to kin, his sister, paid a visit to the precinct; she described him as a sick person, recently discharged from the army for his mental disease. Perps sold magazines door to door in order to steal something inside apartments and they were easily caught by police. Pending trial, one of them (Ben Curtis) was recognized as an Iraqi war veteran (discharged due to brain injuries suffered in battlefield) and he committed the crime because he was in one of his moods...

McCoy was shocked noticing crappy soldiers condition at the hospital as well as how dirty the place was; money shortage they said, anyway nothing related to the case. I've already seen these post traumatic disorders in several Vietnam movies, nothing new under the sun.

Magazine Racket

[bkoganbing · 5/10 · 3 January 2016]

This episode concerns a pair of random murders committed by the same people within a half an hour. The investigation finds the three, two men and a woman, Vincent Piazza, Patrizia Hernandez, and Ben Curtis. Of the three the real culprit is Curtis who has an uncontrollable violent temper courtesy of the post traumatic stress suffered in Iraq.

Law And Order episodes in all the franchises tend to jump all over the lot. In the end Sam Waterston and Alana DeLa Garza focus on the deplorable conditions at the VA hospital where Curtis is treated. When will ever treat our veterans right instead of turning people like Curtis out on society?

But the beginning of this story was something I hoped would develop. The three are part of some magazine selling concern. I know someone who was sucked into that kind of a racket. These people prey on alienated and disaffected young people. What's described in the story is exactly the conditions he lived under ever so briefly thank God.

Two brutal murders were committed by Curtis. In the end you don't know where your sympathies should be.

Starts strong, ends okay

[historyboydm · 5/10 · 14 August 2022]

The part where the detectives are investigating is strong enough. However the episode declines in quality when it focuses too much on military hospital conditions. It is not subtle enough and just sours the episode for me. I also hate how Mccoy is just okay with defying with government orders not to show some evidence when in past episodes he often complys with orders from government bodies even though he does not like it. It is just questionable that he will do something like this.

Over the hill

[TheLittleSongbird · 5/10 · 16 September 2022]

"Over Here" was one of those 'Law and Order' episodes that could have been much more. 'Law and Order' in its prime is my personal favourite of the 'Law and Order' franchise, that 'Special Victims Unit' has gone on for longer may indicate otherwise but that show has not been the same for a long time. Seasons 1-10 had a small group of disappointments but the best episodes in each season were absolutely brilliant. While the show became less consistent post-Season 10, each season did have truly fine episodes still.

Really do wish that "Over Here" was one of those fine episodes. Unfortunately this was not to be, to me Season 17's penultimate episode was a disappointment and along with the next episode one of the season's weakest. A big disappointment after such an excellent previous episode in "Captive". It is certainly not a terrible episode and the idea was good, unfortunately the execution was just messy and the episode fairly average.

There are good things. The production values are still slick and suitably gritty (without being too heavy in it). The music is not too melodramatic and is not used too much, even not being too manipulative in revelations.

Some nice thoughtful moments in the script later on. The acting on the whole is very good, especially in the second half. Ben Curtis' performance is very powerful and hard hitting, deserved a much better episode.

However, there are quite a number of shortcomings. Have never cared for Cassady and Milena Govich on this show and the episode does absolutely nothing to change my mind, actually forgot what they contributed to the episode to be honest. The first quarter is routine with the chemistry on the bland side and does too little with the plot point that had the most potential. The story in general disappoints, with too little tension, not much emotion and a lot of jumping about structurally, which made the middle act feel very choppy.

Not to mention the predictability from the war veteran premise already been done to death (and much better) in previous episodes of the latter seasons. The momentum goes, the story thins out and there is some preachiness in the second half.

In summary, very conflicted on the penultimate episode to this season. 5/10.

Where do I begin?

[SlimJim39 · 1/10 · 31 March 2019]

First of all the service branch, in this case the Army, does NOT pay disability payments to their members that is what the VA does. Being released from the military for medical issues is why there is the VA Secondly,I have been going to different VA's since 1986 and they are all the cleanest, neatest, up to date hospitals I have ever seen. The pictures of dirt and rat droppings is so ridiculous that it staggers the imagination! Thirdly, VA doctors are civilians not military, so what was the doctor in the trial portion, doing in an Army uniform? Fourth, once you are a patient at ANY VA you can get your prescriptions filled at any other VA hospital.

This episode gets the prize for misinformation and out and out lies! It is clearly evident that Wolf does not like the military or the Veterans Administration, so give it a rest will you? .