Review of Mayhem

Law & Order: Mayhem (1994)
Season 4, Episode 17
6/10
Unjust ending to a Dog Day Afternoon
13 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Tom Riis Farrell as murder suspect Scott Hexter should have won an Emmy in this Law and Order: Dog Day Afternoon special edition. Mayhem kind of reminded me of Robert Altman's Short Cuts or The Simpsons' 22 Short Films About Springfield, but we didn't really quite get the intersecting storylines in Mayhem that I thought would have been worthy of an extra two stars or so in my review.

The ending was incredibly unjust, with the cold and vicious death of murder suspect Scott Hexter in prison, when he was innocent all along. Really, I think Scott's mom would have grounds for a multi-million lawsuit against the NYPD.

Numerous pop culture references in Mayhem: Madonna, The Other Guy, and others.
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