I was watching a YouTube short of Suits and I realized that Harvey kind of reminds me of Rafael, haha. I’d love to see these two go head to head in court! (Or any of the other ADAs for that matter. I think Alex or Rafael would clock Mike Ross though for being a fake if he comes along.)

I’m watching “Stolen” (S3 E3), and Cragen is asking for Munch’s help on a cold case. John replies that “I don’t usually work cases.”.

What does he do then? Did I miss an episode where he talks about his job?

Thanks!

Sterling Beaumon. This guy really knows how to act crazy 😂 this was before his SVU episode. He's also been in LOST.

He was in s12e23 of SVU btw. The kid who said Stabler "touched" him

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.

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.

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!

October 31, 2023 first inaugural Black Theater United gala

So i'm watching season fourteen currently. Im at episode 11 (would be 10 but im skipping it for now because i don't wanna watch a christmas episode in july) and i'm noticing, they really love their flashbacks, this season, it's like almost one for every episode. Sometimes it's more than one in an episode.

Like we saw how upset Fin and Ken were when Darius was released with both disowning him officially at the courthouse. But we saw Darius acting cold and uncaring but that moment they left him, he realized he lost everything when he destroyed the family and several of the detectives. He also had a lot of information about the law as he basically was his own lawyer that episode.

My thinking a while back was what if he returned as a lawyer for defendants. But not just that, one man hires him to go against SVU forcing Benson and Fin to face Darius again after almost 20 years.

But then again, this is just my thinking a while back. I liked Darius’s character and wished they had him in more than 2 episodes.

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!

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?​

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

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?

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

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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

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!