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Posted Jan 10th 2007 2:49PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order
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S08E11) Boy howdy, things sure are tense between Dets. Benson and Stabler. I thought their issues were in the past, but they never really can be, can they? Stabler immediately pushed Benson's buttons in this episode when he suggested that a man who is addicted to drugs and alcohol isn't technically abusive. Of course, Benson grew up with an alcoholic mother and she knows that abuse comes in many forms. Stabler knows that too, dammit, but he feels an obligation to side with the man in a nasty divorce case because his own divorce isn't going too well.
Now to the story: A woman, Valerie (Michael Michele), accuses her soon-to-be ex-husband of raping her. But it all seems fishy because she and her husband, Miles (Blair Underwood), are going through a nasty, nasty divorce. Their daughter, Tessa (Tiffany Evans), is in the middle of it.
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Burned
Posted Jan 3rd 2007 11:33AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
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S08E10) This episode was all about Elliot's concern about growing apart from his daughters. The beginning of the episode shows Elliot in church with his fractured family and his middle child hating him very much. He is tipped off to an investigation from his priest, who heard the confession of a man dying of lung cancer. He won't tell Elliot what the confession was, but he suggests Elliot visits the man, named Judson Tierney (played by Brian Dennehy).
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Scheherezade
Posted Dec 1st 2006 9:08AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, Law and Order, Lost, Without A Trace, The Five, Watercooler Talk, Festivus, Celebrities, Men In Trees
I had so much fun making this list
last year that I decided to update it for 2006. Here's how it goes: I choose the five television
characters I'd like to meet the mistletoe, if you get my drift. Several fellas have fallen off the list since last year, while new ones have been added. I learned a lot about myself while making this list: I basically go for guys who are emotionally injured or bad asses-- but only slightly bad ass, like Sawyer on
Lost and not totally wacko like Tommy on
Rescue Me.
Once again, my list is limited to male characters who are currently on television shows. So, for example, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson) cannot be included. Leave your own list in comments!
5. Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) Law & Order SVU How huggably soft is Elliot this season? He ended last season by practically falling head-over-heels in love with his partner, Olivia. When things started to get weird, she disappeared and he was left with a broken heart. Then, Dani came in and gave him hope. The barely got to make out before she left, too. Now he's nursing a broken heart and Olivia is back and everything is weird again. This guy definitely needs a little snuggle time under the mistletoe-- plus, did you notice his smokin' hot body in
"Confrontation" earlier this season? Yowza.
Continue reading The Five: Characters I'd like to meet under the mistletoe (II)
Posted Nov 29th 2006 12:01PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
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S08E09) I can't decide what I liked better about this episode-- Bob Saget or the return of Mariska Hargitay. Det. Olivia Benson comfortably slipped back in to being Det. Elliot Stabler's partner without much fanfare. No fanfare, really. She barely got a "Welcome Back" from Elliot. Casey was cold toward her, even though Olivia came back in time to help her get a conviction on a rape case. I think Det. Munch gave her the warmest reception. All these police types: bottling up their emotions! Sheesh!
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Choreographed
Posted Nov 22nd 2006 7:27AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
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S01E08) Well, you guys were right about the way Connie Nielsen's character was going to exit the show. Det. Dani Beck has been getting increasingly upset over the victims of SVU cases and this week's case was just too much for her to handle. Pity. I was actually starting to enjoy her character, who started out as a reckless cop with bad judgment but ended as an emotional wreck with bad judgment.
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Cage
Posted Nov 21st 2006 1:35PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order, Celebrities
NBC has announced a whole list of special guests for one upcoming episode of
Law & Order: SVU. Bob Saget, Chris Sarandon, Catherine Bell and Bernadette Peters will all appear in the November 28th episode of
SVU, called "Choreographed".
The case is about a woman found dead in Central Park. Sarandon plays her husband, Saget and Bell play the victims' friends, and Peters plays the defense attorney. There is a new episode of
SVU tonight, and I believe it is Connie Nielsen's last episode.
Posted Nov 15th 2006 11:17AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
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S01E07) First of all, check out the
SVU homepage. Doesn't Stabler look freakishly larger than everyone else in the main photo? Second, are you as pissed off as I am about the NBC promos for this episode? They showed the scene where Stabler and Beck kiss and then they showed a shocked Benson. But in reality, those two scenes were far apart. I don't know about you guys, but I didn't pay close attention to the case because I was waiting for Benson to bust Beck and Stabler as they were making out. Never happened.
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Underbelly
Posted Nov 1st 2006 11:30AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
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S08E06) First of all, let me just say that the "eco-terrorists" have surprisingly good fashion sense. And access to showers. As someone who lives in Oregon, where we have real eco-terrorists, I kept having to chuckle at their portrayal on this episode of
SVU. But enough of the nit-picky stuff... Mariska Hargitay is back!
After her maternity leave, Mariska looks amazing. I thought the writers came up with a great storyline to get Det. Olivia Benson out of her undercover gig. She got bored with the squeaky clean environmentalists she had infiltrated so she started investigating the murder of the head of a pharmaceuticals company when her friends are suspected of his death.
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Infiltrated
Posted Oct 25th 2006 10:36AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order, Daytime, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Talk Show
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, co-host of
The View, took up some air time yesterday to rant about the name of a character on last week's
Law & Order SVU that had a similar name to hers. On
SVU, an 'Elizabeth Hassenback' was raped and murdered. Hasselbeck said she didn't see the episode but a friend told her about the similarities with the names and she was disturbed. Hasselbeck called one of the producers for
SVU and asked about the names, which the producer said was a coincidence. Hasselbeck also said the producer was defensive and rude with her and essentially hung up on her when she tried to tell him that she didn't appreciate the victim's name because it made her feel unsafe. I admit that I flipped the TiVo back to see the victim's name because I thought it was Elisabeth Hasselbeck. She argues that's it's socially irresponsible to basically portray her as being raped and murdered. She also said she didn't want any more
SVU actors on
The View, as if she has control over that and they actually had anything to do with it!
So... is Elisabeth Hasselbeck overreacting? Or, is
SVU really taking a nasty swipe at her?
Posted Oct 18th 2006 7:19AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
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S08E05) Det. Stabler wears tightie whities! Is that what stood out to the rest of you in this episode, too? Maybe it's just a girl thing but he makes those undies look goooood (she says, in a Will Smith/
Men in Black sort-of way).
We finally learn exactly what happened when Det. Beck's husband was killed on the job: two 15-year olds stole a car and decided to get stupid when they got caught by 'Mike'. They shot him in the head. I thoroughly enjoyed Dani's iciness when Det. Stabler attempted to talk to her about the crime. He figured out that she went up to the prison, but not to see the shooters. She went to see the dead body of one of the shooters who was killed in a prison brawl. All ice, that woman.
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Confrontation
Posted Oct 11th 2006 7:43AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
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S08E04) This week we're back to the case and off the personal issues of the detectives. And the case is particularly disturbing. A single mother and her 10-year old daughter are found bound, raped and murdered in their apartment. The initial suspect is a very dirty, mouthbreathing Jerry Lewis.
Lewis really stole the show, didn't he? He was heartbreaking as a man who was so depressed that he became demented. He ended up being Det. John Munch's uncle who came up to NYC from Florida in June to see him but forgot what he was doing and ended up on the streets. He experienced a remarkable change in personality. Basically, he turned from crazy homeless man to, well, Jerry Lewis. And then he changed to crazy Jerry Lewis.
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Uncle
Posted Oct 4th 2006 1:01PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
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S08E03) What a waste of a good villain. The crime in this episode was a rape, which led detectives to a serial rapist with what should have been an apalling past. But, since the focus of this episode was really on Detective Beck (Connie Nielsen), the crime fell by the wayside.
Don't get me wrong- Det. Beck is an interesting character. She's definitely a fish out of water in the Special Victims Unit with her intense approach to investigations. She's used to chasing down bad guys who have warrants out for their arrests, not taking time to talk to a victim of a sex crime. She's rude to most of the victims but, predictably, learns a little bit about investigations when she interviews a beautiful, elderly French woman, played by Leslie Caron, at the end. (I think Caron's agonizing performance was most memorable) We also learn that Beck is from Denmark, which explains the real-life accent, and that her husband was a NYPD cop who was murdered.
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Recall
Posted Sep 27th 2006 7:45AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
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S08E02) SVU is doing this funky editing thing this year that is annoying me. The characters will start a conversation in one place and then pick it up again in another place. Totally unrealistic and kind-of jarring because, instead of telling the story, it just tells me how clever some writer and/or editor thinks he/she is. For instance, Det. Tutuola is questioning Conner about Janey. The interview starts in the apartment and suddenly jumps to the interview room. It happened last week when Det. Benson was talking to Star about an FBI case.
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Clock
Posted Sep 20th 2006 8:04AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
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S08E01) Good Lord, how disturbing was that opening scene? A girl shows up to the emergency room with a shaved and wounded head. She won't give her name or allow a rape kit even though it's obvious that's what happened to her. All she wants is a morning after pill. Det. Olivia Benson (a very pregnant Mariska Hargitay) catches her as she's leaving the hospital and trails the woman to her apartment. From the super, she learns the girl's name is Hailey. She gets into Hailey's apartment but the woman refuses to give any information and she cries as she gets into the bathtub and washes away all evidence of her rape. Luckily, Olivia is snoopy. As she's leaving the apartment, she swipes the girl's underpants for evidence.
Continue reading Law & Order SVU: Informed (season premiere)
Posted Aug 15th 2006 3:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Talent, PBS, Children
Yeah, I know, it sounds like the idea for an SNL, Mad TV, or Conan O'Brien sketch, but it actually happened on yesterday's season premiere of Sesame Street. Here's the video.
Now, I'm all for edgy humor and irreverence, even on kids shows, but I think this is an odd choice. I mean, Law and Order: SVU is all about sex crimes, many of them involving children, and that's the show that Sesame Street decides to lampoon? Will kids even get it, or is this something more for parents (I assume the latter). It's called Special Letters Unit, but it's still a bit odd, though enjoyable. They even use the show's sound (they call it "chung chung"), and that's the original cast doing the voices for their puppets too.
Next on Zoom: a tribute to Deadwood.
Update: You might have trouble playing the video (not sure why, though I know YouTube is down right now). Here are some screen caps and more from the episode.
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