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06-23-2022, 07:50 PM
https://www.looper.com/905757/the-best-season-finale-of-law-order/
The Season 6 finale, Aftershock, is still shocking fans to this day
In this finale, Briscoe (Jerry Orbach), Kincaid (Jill Hennessy), Curtis (Benjamin Bratt), and McCoy (Sam Waterston) have to watch the execution of a criminal they all helped convict. Because none of the characters are sociopaths, witnessing the death of another human — whose death they are partly responsible for — is traumatic for them and leads them to act out in unhealthy ways. Curtis cheats on his wife with a young grad student. McCoy gets drunk in a bar and laments about his abusive childhood with some friendly strangers. Briscoe, a recovering alcoholic, falls off the wagon. But Kincaid's ending is the most tragic of all. She goes to the bar where both McCoy and Briscoe get drunk and ends up giving Briscoe a sober ride home. Ironically, right as the two are in the middle of an emotional conversation, they are hit by a drunk driver. This was the moment when Kincaid was killed off the series (https://www.looper.com/702957/finally-explaining-claire-kincaids-death-on-law-and-order/).
Fans like @VeronicaAlcalaV (https://twitter.com/VeronicaAlcalaV) are still talking about it and praising it as not just one of the best finales of all time, but one of the best episodes of the series. There's an entire Reddit thread about how impressive it was that the show did something so different (https://www.reddit.com/r/LawAndOrder/comments/839n8a/aftershock/) by focusing on the emotional stories of the main characters for the first time. "Aftershock" still has a 9.1/10 on IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629147/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt) and many effusive reviews, including one from haley96 (https://www.imdb.com/review/rw5516627/?ref_=tt_urv) who, based on their personal experience with the criminal justice system IRL, confirmed that "the cops and lawyers who worked the cases were a mess the day of the execution. This episode nailed the emotional tone."
The Season 6 finale, Aftershock, is still shocking fans to this day
In this finale, Briscoe (Jerry Orbach), Kincaid (Jill Hennessy), Curtis (Benjamin Bratt), and McCoy (Sam Waterston) have to watch the execution of a criminal they all helped convict. Because none of the characters are sociopaths, witnessing the death of another human — whose death they are partly responsible for — is traumatic for them and leads them to act out in unhealthy ways. Curtis cheats on his wife with a young grad student. McCoy gets drunk in a bar and laments about his abusive childhood with some friendly strangers. Briscoe, a recovering alcoholic, falls off the wagon. But Kincaid's ending is the most tragic of all. She goes to the bar where both McCoy and Briscoe get drunk and ends up giving Briscoe a sober ride home. Ironically, right as the two are in the middle of an emotional conversation, they are hit by a drunk driver. This was the moment when Kincaid was killed off the series (https://www.looper.com/702957/finally-explaining-claire-kincaids-death-on-law-and-order/).
Fans like @VeronicaAlcalaV (https://twitter.com/VeronicaAlcalaV) are still talking about it and praising it as not just one of the best finales of all time, but one of the best episodes of the series. There's an entire Reddit thread about how impressive it was that the show did something so different (https://www.reddit.com/r/LawAndOrder/comments/839n8a/aftershock/) by focusing on the emotional stories of the main characters for the first time. "Aftershock" still has a 9.1/10 on IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629147/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt) and many effusive reviews, including one from haley96 (https://www.imdb.com/review/rw5516627/?ref_=tt_urv) who, based on their personal experience with the criminal justice system IRL, confirmed that "the cops and lawyers who worked the cases were a mess the day of the execution. This episode nailed the emotional tone."