Never even watched one minute of any episode.
My consumption of network content is very limited as I by default expect 99% of it to have a specific agenda and narrative.
You never needed to. The universal script for an episode of Law & Order is:
Has there been a crime?
Is there a straight white guy in a guest-star role?
No matter what the evidence or eyewitness testimony says, the straight white guy s the *real* criminal here, but that’s not revealed until the last 15 minutes.
Law & Odor could do the Jeff Dahmer story and find a straight white guy to be the one to blame.