SVU OD
Because I’m about to go out of town, I went through my TiVo To-Do List and asked myself, “Okay, what of this should I delete?” I started by eliminating episodes of shows I’d already seen but hadn’t seen in the last 28 days.
After I finished, I realized that I’d deleted every single upcoming episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
I promise you that I’m not obsessed. Okay, so I am. I love playing the SVU “Guess Who’s Going to Be Righteously Pissed Off!?” Game: watch the first five minutes of an ep of SVU and decide who’s going to get the most outrageously angry during the hour. Will it be:
- Elliott?
- Olivia?
- Munch?
- Tutuola?
- Cragen?
- Cabot?
- Novak?
Sad thing is, I can tell from just watching the pre-opening credits scroll most of the time.
On the Top Five list of Detectives I’d Never Want to See Across the Table from Me in a Interview Room, Stabler and Tutuola are #1 and #1A. One of these days, some black, up-from-the-streets pedophile is going to piss Tutuola off, and just as you’re expecting Ice T to whup him good, Stabler’s going to come in like some sick tag-team clothesline and beat the guy’s head into the table until he passes out.
You just know this.
[Am I the only one that finds it amusing that Ice T is now playing a cop?]
F the rest of the po-lice.
I’m not ashamed to admit that my enjoyment of the show went sharply downhill when Cabot left.
August 18th, 2004 at 19:39Alex, I’ll certainly agree that I liked Cabot a lot better than Novak. Diane Neal has the same far-too-serene demeanor that Angie Harmon brought to Law & Order: you just want to whack her and say, “Hey, you show a little emotion.”
Now, frankly, you can say the same thing about Elisabeth Rõhm on L&O, but since I have a crush on her, well …
Stephanie March played the unflappable DA, but when she was unhappy, by God, you knew it! That’s what I want to see—a clear personality—in a minor character.
August 18th, 2004 at 19:45I miss Homicide…I think that’s what it was called. It took place in Baltimore, and sometimes Munch or others from L&W would come visit. The show had a very cool vibe, and some great music video like moments.
August 18th, 2004 at 21:42Mark: Yes, it was Homicide: Life on the Street. Munch was a regular for a while. Richard Belzer is absolutely wonderful.
August 18th, 2004 at 23:33