That's right....never known this guy to lose! Poor Hamilton Burger the DA is on the losing end as the foil for the super attorney.
I wonder. This series is set eons ago in a time in which the personal life was never portrayed. The script was the work world. The drama was the plot. The point was to succeed, over and over again. I mean, the poor guy gets ready to take a vacation and go fishing--just when the producer has another case drop in on him. In our age, Mason and secretary Della Street would be going at it between court scenes. Just think of the dramas today -- made for TV, made for you and me!
Now look at Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The bad guys sometimes get away....the officers screw up...a window opens on their personal lives and families. They are writing for us today in our humanity--or as some have said, our tireless desire for voyeurism in the extreme to assure us that we are really okay, It's not about success. It is about survival. Do you suppose the TV writers know us well enough to know our scripts? Do we know ourselves well enough to recognize ourselves--and our spirits struggling sometimes just to be human, God's people who assures us he takes us as we are?
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