SVU became unwatchable for me several years ago due to this kind of mess…
I was never a real fan of any of the Law and Order shows, but my wife would watch them. Until a few weeks ago, when she finally got sick of the woke BS, deleted the episode she was watching, and quit recording any more. I think it was SVU that finally pushed her beyond endurance, but I don’t really know. They all suck, and have for a long time.
The entire “Law & Order” universe is hopelessly “woke” and has been for years.
I never watched even one episode of this or the related shows all these decades until my dear wife died in 2023 and I couldn’t stand the silence. Actually, L&O Criminal Intent was the best. Dick Wolfe does allow black villains and his comic caricatures of white supremacist cults and religious zealots are absurd enough to be shrugged off.
The “law of unintended consequences” is that I believe millions of viewers see the system of pseudo-justice lets the guilty get away to find new fresh victims-—90% of the time. I’ve seen nearly all the original L&O and all the SVU ones now and the guilty get off, the case is lost, a vigilante has to shoot the guilty perp on the steps most of the time. Or a few brief years in prison is promised.
The monstrous juvenile Henry in Born Psychopath who got out as “cured” from a mental facility in Post-Graduate Psychopath (2021) who killed so many and the serial torture killers Gregory Yates and William Lewis who get away are actually instructive to the naive and dimwitted American public I disdain.
Although I prefer the old Darren McGavin Mike Hammer who once brutally beat the guilty criminal to teach him a lesson (I watch that over and over) and threw one down a high staircase because the killer had done that to an innocent old lady after he robbed her, and the best of Sgt. Hank Voight in Chicago PD, this scene in an episode where a bystander asked Benson “What happened to that bleeding heart of yours?” Benson: “All the blood drained out of it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt15-Urzd88
This one where the life of a missing girl depends on getting the criminal to talk instead of smirk and demand a lawyer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfU411FQjFA
The unbearable woke preaching that incites nausea like this, and it’s become the Olivia Benson Show. She’s just not interesting enough to carry the show alone.
yes, me too. I like the other law & orders, but done forever with SVU from a long, long time ago. Surprised it’s still on tbh.
In gave up on that show eons ago, it became pretty stale and yet still on after over 20 years, I guess it is now the longest running prime time show. I much prefer the original Law & Order and like the first 4 seasons the best with Michael Moriarty rather than Sam Waterson. And who did not like Steven Hill as Adam Schiff the DA?
Ditto. NBC is circling the drain.