This series focuses on the NYPD's Major Case Squad, a force of detectives who investigate high-profile cases, whilst also showing parts of the crime from the criminal's point of view to the audience.
Critics Of "Law and Order: Criminal Intent - Season 7"
DVDTalk.com
November 02, 2018
Shows like Criminal Intent hang their formula-driven plots on the personalities of its stars. D'Onofrio, Erbe, Noth, and Nicholson are all reasonably good but none is really capable of carrying the show, either.
With his quirks, twitches and improbable feats of deduction, D'Onofrio's Detective Goren can be annoying but does provide this version of the Law & Order stable with a point of difference. Without him it's just another cop show.