connie nielsen-related stories
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 31st 2006 6:00PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order, Celebrities
Just a reminder that Mariska Hargitay returns to Law & Order: SVU with tonight's episode. This is the post-pregnant Hargitay that will appear, not the pregnant, puffy jacket Mariska that was shown in the season premiere.
However, it's not like she walks right back into the squadroom and goes 'Hey everybody, I'm back! Let's get some coffee'. If you remember from the first episode of the season Mariska's character, Detective Olivia Benson, went undercover to infiltrate an eco-terrorist group based out of Oregon. In tonight's episode she returns to New York to assist A.D.A. Casey Novak in presenting evidence in a rape case. Of course, this could impact the work Olivia has been doing on the West Coast.
Continue reading Mariska Hargitay returns to SVU tonight
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 Feb 1st 2006 9:43AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order, Celebrities
Connie Nielsen will guest star on the last six episodes of
Law and Order: SVU this season, while Mariska
Hargitay goes on maternity leave. The actress is having a boy and her maternity leave begins next month even though
she's not due until mid-June.
Nielsen will play an NYPD detective who fills in when Det. Olivia Benson goes
on "special assignment". That storyline is pretty typical of
SVU, which seems to have shied away
from personal storylines for any of its cast members lately. Most of Nielsen's acting credits are in movies. She was in
Gladiator,
The Ice Harvest, and
One Hour Photo. Looking at her
IMDB
resume, it looks as though SVU will be her first crack at episodic television.
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