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― j., Monday, 17 February 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
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three more years of svu!
― j., Friday, 28 February 2020 05:49 (four years ago) link
currently on constant repeat are seasons 17 and 18, post-munch and so episodes I'd not seen before. and showing 4 a day so I'm catching up quickly.
lol at the fictional people message at the start and then featuring an ex boxer who is now the face of grilling equipment. and today's episode was about a child sex ring in the basement of a restaurant... (oh mentioned upthread)
― koogs, Sunday, 14 March 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
now they've rolled back to series 1 (and 21 is showing once a week). munch and stabler. benson still there (and munch guested recently).
will be interesting to see if i remember episodes from that far back, 1999.
― koogs, Monday, 12 July 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
the catch here are that there are 4 episodes a night. that's a lot of svu.
― koogs, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
Just like the old TNT rerun nights... "Back to BACK to BACK to BACK!"
― Nhex, Monday, 12 July 2021 22:22 (two years ago) link
today's episode came with the warning "contains sex, violence and *outdated medical terminology* that you may find upsetting"
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 09:02 (two years ago) link
what was it?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
"consumption"
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
i really only enjoy the stabler seasons. need him being really judgmental in a way befitting a catholic cop and olivia having to argue for victim's rights.
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
also stabler is just on the edge of police brutality in every scene with a suspect
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
the R word
it was actually quite shocking when they finally got around to it in the legal bit in the 3rd act
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
and munch's conspiracy theory schtick feels so much less quaint now
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
ice t turns up in first episode of series 2, i figured it was much later.
4 episodes a night means a season a week
― koogs, Sunday, 18 July 2021 09:08 (two years ago) link
series 3 now.
i think every episode has a scene where they interview someone who just keeps on working, hanging up clothes, tidying bars, sweeping up...
they keep saying that the average stint on svu is 3 years. Olivia's been there 21+, ice t 20 and counting
― koogs, Saturday, 31 July 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
season 4, and today's lead prostitute is ADA Costas from NYPD Blue, which is quite a career change...
― koogs, Monday, 9 August 2021 10:35 (two years ago) link
season 5.
lt fancy, moonlighting from nypd blue.
(switches back to season 17 and 19 after tomorrow, both of which i've seen during lockdown)
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
season 10. sideshow luke perry guest stars. and sara gilbert.
watching these daily (still) alongside the weekly 2021 episodes and they are chalk and cheese, the new ones are barely watchable. (yeah, filmed during covid, everyone 2m from everyone else, masks and screens everywhere, but i think it's something else, just the overall quality of something that's off)
― koogs, Sunday, 13 February 2022 13:07 (two years ago) link
Last several seasons just weak, especially once they moved Liv to the Captain spot, but even before that. The 2010s cops and DAs are mostly meh
― Nhex, Sunday, 13 February 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
they've just ditched Casey Novak, the second DA, and the new one (Kim?) is being ignored by the entire cast. she lasts 22 episodes according to imdb. stabler's not long for this world either.
the last new detective lasted one season before murdering a perp (which i think was the plan all along). he was strangely stiff.
― koogs, Sunday, 13 February 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
(they just did the usual end of season thing of everyone threatening to leave or being on the edge of firing, or arrested. i guess this stops the actors negotiating too much of a payrise)
― koogs, Sunday, 13 February 2022 21:40 (two years ago) link
ha! that's probably right. they didn't seem to prepare at all for Meloni leaving at the time though
― Nhex, Monday, 14 February 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
I will admit I shamefully have watched all of L&O: Organized Crime w/Meloni
the first season was blah, the second has a decent start with Stabler undercover in the Albanian mob and has some decent bits for a while before reverting to more of the plot arc from the first season. crossovers with SVU are kind of dire
the o.g. L&O was great because, with some exceptions, it was more about the crime of the week and only lightly touched on the character backstories. by a few years into SVU, about half of the content was ongoing character drama
Criminal Intent was always kind of a mixed bag, but the character development was more interesting because D'Onofrio's character was a great big weirdo
― mh, Monday, 14 February 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
def will be interesting to see if they can recapture the old magic with L&O: Classic returning
― Nhex, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:48 (two years ago) link
I doubt it, but you know I’m watching it anyway!
― mh, Monday, 14 February 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link
Really don't like the Organized Crime one. L&O is not about serial storytelling.
Once upon a time I had this kind of philosophical typology of the three L&O shows going... the original was Marxist because the villains were almost always the rich, Criminal Intent was Nietzschean because it was up to the super-smart detective to outsmart the super-smart criminals, and SVU was pure Schopenhauer - there is no hope, the world is pain.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 14 February 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
Ehhhh I dunno, there a lot of SVU episodes with endings where the kid gets saved, or the victim gets away from abuser, or said abuser gets killed by a vigilante or something
― Nhex, Monday, 14 February 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
I tried a couple of episodes of Organized Crime, just didn't take for me. Will take a warmed-over original recipe Season 20 any day
end of series 10 and the last few episodes have had the following guest stars
seven of nineriver songjim from neighbours
still the same core team 10 series in, which is what makes it comfortable viewing i guess.
― koogs, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 11:42 (two years ago) link
So who has been following L&O: Organised Crime? what a hundinger of stupid comic book villainy!
I dont imagine anyone even CARES about spoilers for this show. Dylan McDermott plays this nemesis/foil to Stabler and it just becomes a cartoon, complete with announcements via giant TV screen panels, kidnappings of mothers and a demand for a chopper, and the threat that if he doesnt get what he wants "I AM GOING TO TAKE AWAY HER LITHIUM!". LIke... what the FUCK would that do ,give her brain zaps?
If he'd actually, literally said MWAH HA HAAAAA at any point I wouldn't have blinked. I laughed my arse off.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 6 March 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
please tell me they wrote him off the show by the end of season one
― Nhex, Monday, 7 March 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
Haaaaaa... no. IN fact in S2 it basically turns into the "Stabler has an evil nemesis" hour.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 7 March 2022 00:11 (two years ago) link
I said it above, but the show almost was decent for the entire Stabler undercover with Albanians arc. BUT THEN the evil nemesis returned!
It's insanely goofy. And Trayce didn't even include the "young hacker employed by the cops immediately recognizes where the hostage is being held FOR REASONS" insanely funny bit
― mh, Monday, 7 March 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
OMG YOU ARE RIGHT. I almost fell off my chair cackling, that was *chefs kiss*.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 7 March 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
"I know those chairs".
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 7 March 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
Dylan McDermott as a mobster is only slightly more intimidating than David Schwimmer would have been
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 March 2022 01:09 (two years ago) link
o t m
― mh, Monday, 7 March 2022 02:37 (two years ago) link
Ainsley Seiger is quite good fun in it but the show is absolutely terrible.
I think you probably could run a half-decent spin-off designed to be a sillier NCIS-style action show but the tone, with Stabler’s wife situation, etc, is completely all over the place and the plotting / acting is horrendous.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 7 March 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
it bears mentioning that Seiger's character is named JET SLOOTMAEKERS
― mh, Monday, 7 March 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
watched a very wild s11 episode of svu last night on prime video (they used to have every season of svu, criminal intent and main law & order but now only have seasons 10+?) where rosie perez's son is being abused by her boyfriend (played by prezbylewski from the wire) who makes a deal to get a lighter sentence in exchange for setting up a sting operation in which the head of a NAMBLA-style organization gives him a usb drive including the name and address of every pedo in the country. there's this demented courtroom scene where NAMBLA guy gives a rousing civil rights-style defence of pedophilia and the jurors are starting to look swayed (b.d. wong erupts in protest and gets reprimanded by the judge). perez is amazing in it, playing a hothead who almost messes up the sting when she stabs prez in the shoulder. apparently she suffered a herniated disc during the filming of the episode which lead to 2 surgeries (and a lawsuit with the L&O producers) :(
― flopson, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 08:19 (two years ago) link
Munch retired again last night which probably means I've now watched the entire set. but I'll keep an eye out for the start of season 16 in case they skipped any.
― koogs, Friday, 15 April 2022 11:10 (two years ago) link