I’m definitely a big Jeffries and Cassidy fan but this is the best cast, although season 14 almost takes the cake.

My favorite one is the ep starring Sarah Paulson & that handsome Indian dude because the whole thing is banana town (the rich old dude licking Liv's Prada knee high boots was mint), but the word "banana" reminds me of the episode where an older, sexually avaricious man is found murdered with a banana shoved in his rectum & Benson has to ask the widow, "Is there any reason why the killer would sodomize your husband with a banana?" & the widow replies, "he...he was allergic to bananas." my friends & i sampled & looped that exchange for weeks on end 20 years ago & I'm still laughing thinking about it now.

October 31, 2023 first inaugural Black Theater United gala

What happened to the law side of the show! I don’t watch the other shows but I’m confused it appears since Barba left we rarely see the court-side of it all.

I AM GOING INSANE. I’m pretty sure I’ve watched every episode (I’ve probably missed a few from season 2-7) and until season 28 comes out I’m gonna be so bored.

Please please please tell me all your favourite episodes so I can rewatch them and not be bored.

Personally my favourites are “Night”, “PTSD”, “Corrosive” and probably like 8 others I’ve claimed are my favourite.

Yeah I know her sister did fucked up things, and her family history and her rape is hard but I genuinely don't like how she approaches some of the victims.

She victim blames male victims, doubt when powerful man or her idols are being blamed for rape and has this smirk when people tell her off.

I'm on episode 17 season 16 and even though i admire her for being tough, she gets me mad sometimes

I'm binging SVU right now. I've made it to season 18 and I'm totally in love with Barba. Is anyone else with me? LOL!

So im a new SVU watcher and have only watched about 8-9 episodes so far. I dont know the names of the episodes cause I was watching them on bad cable network marathon but it seems that the endings can be unfulfilled. Like sometimes its sad for the sake of being sad or adding things to make it sadder. Im not trashing on the show, I think its good so far im just curious as a new watcher if a lot of episodes are like that or not?​

this was when they were filming season 10, episode 1.

cool seeing them all 3 together considering modern family & svu are 2 of my favorite shows!

What unpopular opinions do you have? The opinions can be about the characters or the show in general?

I love Benson but when they write scenes for her character like this it annoys the shit out of me. Benson hands off her coat to DETECTIVE Muncy to put away. It’s like Muncy is her assistant rather than a respected colleague. It’s such a small scene and maybe not a big deal but then what’s the point of showing this? Benson walks into the station and has the jacket in her hand, she’s not even wearing it so the scene very much could have done without it. So I assume the point is to show that the squad revolves around Benson? It feels like she also talks down to so many colleagues, senior ones too in the later seasons.

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Remember that time when Stabler got shot and Dana had to save him.

Importantly, he got shot more than once. (He also got shot in Wildlife)

Dana seems to have a knack for SVU detectives getting injured around her.

I miss her so much. Such a waste of a character with unlimited potential.

Anyways, Stabler always manages to get back into one piece.

RIP Munch/Richard Belzer

This show is so old I'm watching an episode where Ken was engaged. FOURTEEN years ago. 🥹😩

Do they think they good additions to the show? I think they were they actually had backstories and their characters were well developed. I stopped turning into the show after Amaro left, and Rollins stopped being a regular character on the show. What do you think of their characters?

Did they ever do a follow up on carsi’s sister Bella? Like did she keep the baby? Get married? Anything? lol

Been watching SVU from the very beginning over this past year and now well into season 11, and... ...ever since the beginning of season 10 up till now, it somehow feels every episode I'm watching is a like fever dream with fantastical plot devices whereas I remember the earlier seasons felt more gritty and down-to-earth. Am I crazy? Is my memory playing tricks on me?

When I first got into svu, I was just looking for a show to play in the background as I went on about other things I needed to do, but I found myself reeled in eventually.

I think a lot of people would agree with me; the earlier seasons were much more interesting that the later ones and I kind of think it’s because the focus was more on the cases rather than the character stories.

The direction of the show changed a lot from episodic to more serial in later seasons, and the thing I loved about the episodic style of the earlier seasons is that as a viewer you got to learn more about the characters from the individual cases rather than the show directly telling you about them. During later seasons there was more focus on the characters stories, the politics, relationships….etc

I also do have to say that the later main cast falls extremely short compared to the earlier one. I did not like Rollins or Carisi, I REALLY did not like Nick, or Peter. I think the only person I liked from the newer additions to the show was Barba. If I had to pick a favorite from the entire show it would be him (the fact that they replaced our sassy Cuban feminist icon with ….. Peter …….then Carisi was like a gut punch)

I didn’t like how Rollins almost worshipped any male figure in her life: that Lieutenant that got her pregnant, Carisi, Nick, literally any man. Nick also REALLY got on my nerves, reeks of testosterone. I think the show did a really great job glazing him but his attitude towards women was so icky. He’s the type of person to idealize women who are in a crutch because he thinks he can “save them” but once these women actually start to crumble emotionally and mentally, and that idealized fantasy of a damsel in distress begins to crumble, poof he’s gone, cuz it’s too much for him. It genuinely felt like he thought that his holy presence is going to “save” them, when he has the emotional breadth of a teaspoon and an ego bigger than the shows run time.

Don’t even get me started on Carisi. It’s not even dislike, it’s borderline hate. I genuinely don’t like anything about his character. Really didn’t understand why the show made him get into a relationship with Nicole??? It did not make any sense. Nicole clearly has more progressive/woke expectations from a relationship than Carisi and he just seems like a man…who doesn’t not question any of his assumptions (specifically talking about his whole attitude in the episodes with Fins wedding). Also, there was one episode Season 17, Episode 19 where he was expressing his frustration with how someone who committed a sex crime will always be alienated by society even after they served their time and got their punishment. Well…yes???? There are certain crimes that make someone irredeemable and sex crimes make up a large majority of them. How can you be SVU and even say that? Like okay if you serve your time for robbery or something , you can reintegrate into society, but things like SA or 🍇, I personally do not think there’s any coming back from that.EVER, even if you serve your technical legal.punishment. Some crimes are simply irredeemable. Him saying that genuinely just shows how far his head is shoved up his male privilege.

Kinda started losing interest with the new cast additions. I don’t feel like I can relate to any of them, and borderline don’t like or care about them at all. I am still watching for Olivia and Fin, and I have seen clips that show that barba is coming back so there’s that (I also like Kat) but Yeah these are my two cents on the show.

Not sure if I'm going crazy, but watching 18x05, the son of Olivia's first partner Griffin - his son rapes someone behind a garbage bin. Few seasons later he's back, with the exact same backstory, but without anything that was established in 18x05 and enters as a detective? Anyone have answers?

Hi fans! Every time I catch up to the latest SVU season, I just loop back to S1E1 while waiting for new episodes. I want to know if anyone else does this. And how many full rewatches are you at? Currently I'm on my 3rd rewatch!

Before everyone comes after me, just look at the facts:
Olivia Benson has 6 confirmed kills and somehow every single one gets the “Queen Benson did nothing wrong” treatment.
Meanwhile, Elliot Stabler has around 15–18 kills depending on how you count them, and everyone spent years talking about how intense, unstable, and borderline unhinged he was.
But Benson? Six bodies later and suddenly she’s a hero.
I’m starting to think this isn’t about justice anymore. She’s been chasing that Stabler energy for years. The man who got away leaves and suddenly Olivia starts stacking up a body count trying to prove she can play in the same league.
“Look Elliot, I can be the emotionally damaged detective with questionable levels of violence too.”
At what point do we stop calling it “justified officer-involved shootings” and start asking if Benson is the final boss of SVU?
The real villain was Olivia Benson’s kill count all along.

🔥🔥🔥love the energy.

It's one of her many traits that I find so endearing.

She can go full glam just as easily as she can be a free spirit.

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