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Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

HOLY gently caress posted:

drat, I need to go back and watch some older seasons, I’ve missed a lot of SVU before season 11.

One thing from more recent episodes of SVU that I’ve enjoyed: the past few times they’ve investigated a crime that happened on a porn site or an app the owner has been played by John Waters. I don’t even think it was the same character either since I don’t think the other characters recognized him as the same guy iirc. Kind of hope that it’s just him every time and nobody notices that all the porn site owners look exactly the same :haw:



edit: poo poo, sorry that image was so huge, phoneposting

If there's any justice he's also the same guy that was extradited from NY to Baltimore in that L&O/Homicide crossover episode.

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YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

fartknocker posted:

Wasn’t Dodds in just one season too? He was kinda :geno: but not bad at his job that I remember.

The episode where Dodds died, you pretty much knew from the second that the episode started that he was giong to die. It was hilarious even though it was sad.

I liked Dodds.

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

:what:

quote:

Law & Order fans are used to seeing how the District Attorney’s office goes about taking down criminals. Now, for a change, they’re going to get a seat at the defense table.

The franchise’s latest iteration, titled Law & Order: For the Defense, will follow the attorneys of a criminal defense firm, NBC announced Monday. The drama skipped the pilot stage and received a straight-to-series order.

Per the official release, For the Defense “will put lawyers under the microscope, along with the criminal justice system, with every week delivering the promise of a contemporary morality tale.”

Carol Mendelsohn (CSI) will be showrunner. Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, Arthur Forney, Julie Weitz, Peter Jankowski and Mendelsohn will be executive producers. Universal Television and Wolf Entertainment will produce.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

That's one way to try and adapt to changing cultural mores about the cops.

HOLY FUCK
Mar 31, 2007

Cats are terrifying, everyone knows that! 'Cause they're witches! And they've got knives in their feet!



ah. that's...something

who am i kidding, i'm going to watch it anyway

Mooseontheloose
May 13, 2003


I mean, its also the last possible well for an L&O series. I mean, I guess Trial by Jury tried to show both sides but I kinda like the idea of seeing the defense lawyers prepping for McCoy.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..
Solution to the problematic nature of Elliott Stabler: have him work as a PI for defence lawyers where he beats up corrupt cops to get the real story.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

This has the same feel as when Sea World made a bunch of kids' nature shows after Blackfish was released, trying to make it seem like they did a lot to conserve local wildlife and weren't all that interested in the theme park thing.

The Notorious ZSB
Apr 19, 2004

I SAID WE'RE NOT GONNA BE FUCKING SUCK THIS YEAR!!!


Oh No.

I gotta say one of the worst SVU tropes (beyond the diminishing role of the DA so we can have more squad time) is their decision to commit character assassination on just about every one they can. Oh you're leaving? Guess you were awful and have to die, go to jail, or whine on the way out.

TheTofuShop
Aug 28, 2009

Hand Knit posted:

Solution to the problematic nature of Elliott Stabler: have him work as a PI for defence lawyers where he beats up corrupt cops to get the real story.

I'd watch this show

InsensitiveSeaBass
Apr 1, 2008

You're entering a realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic, or contains some kind of monster... The second one. Prepare to enter The Scary Door.
Nap Ghost

The noise better go KNIOD KNOID in this one. Hopefully they can get someone like Melnick to run the law firm (who am I kidding, it'll be Robinette). If they at least show one guilty as sin defendant and how you prep for that trial, I'd be interested.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..
I am mildly impressed they managed to make this episode of Law and Order (S20E20, "The Taxman Cometh") about the Bush tax cuts. That's a level of contrivance that's worth appreciating.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


I haven't watched SVU in years since I stopped getting cable, I miss the absolute insanity that show descended into and I really need to catch up since they gave Stabler his own show. Is it bad in a bad way, bad in a good way, or Actually Good?

MJeff posted:

Fun fact, both Terrence Howard and Alfred Molina were also in SVU! Terrence Howard as Deputy District Attorney John Dekker, the same character he portrayed in LA and Alfred Molina as... *checks notes* a rapist! So, probably not the same character.

Even funner fact, Diane Neal was two different characters that were both on SVU, first as a rapist and murder accomplice, then a few years later as ADA Casey Novak.

raditts fucked around with this message at 20:35 on May 5, 2021

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR

raditts posted:

I haven't watched SVU in years since I stopped getting cable, I miss the absolute insanity that show descended into and I really need to catch up since they gave Stabler his own show. Is it bad in a bad way, bad in a good way, or Actually Good?


Even funner fact, Diane Neal was two different characters that were both on SVU, first as a rapist and murder accomplice, then a few years later as ADA Casey Novak.

Rollins was a rape victim, Carisi did something and Sisto was a defense attorney one episode before he became a detective!

Hand Knit posted:

I am mildly impressed they managed to make this episode of Law and Order (S20E20, "The Taxman Cometh") about the Bush tax cuts. That's a level of contrivance that's worth appreciating.

That's one of at least two episodes where the DA has to accidentally blow up gay rights to make a case. :lol:

fartknocker
Oct 28, 2012


Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.



Wedge Regret

MJeff posted:

Rollins was a rape victim, Carisi did something and Sisto was a defense attorney one episode before he became a detective!

Admittedly, that was the end of one season/start of the next, so it was less obvious at the time than it is in syndication.

Let’s not forget Jerry Orbach as a defense attorney in season 2, S. Epatha Merkerson as a cleaning woman early on season 1, and Annie Parisse as a stripper. Ice-T was in Exiled as a pimp or something. I’m pretty Raul Esparza was accused of killing a woman during rough sex (Which they showed a hilarious video of!) in a late season episode of vanilla L&O as well, along with some others I’m probably forgetting.

One of the best of these was Andre Braugher appeared in the original L&O as his character from Homicide, then years later shows up as a separate defense attorney character in SVU, and asks Munch if they’ve met before.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

fartknocker posted:

Admittedly, that was the end of one season/start of the next, so it was less obvious at the time than it is in syndication.

Let’s not forget Jerry Orbach as a defense attorney in season 2, S. Epatha Merkerson as a cleaning woman early on season 1, and Annie Parisse as a stripper. Ice-T was in Exiled as a pimp or something. I’m pretty Raul Esparza was accused of killing a woman during rough sex (Which they showed a hilarious video of!) in a late season episode of vanilla L&O as well, along with some others I’m probably forgetting.

Raul Esparza was a Perez Hilton type who killed someone as part of a plot blackmailing Samantha Bee.

fartknocker
Oct 28, 2012


Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.



Wedge Regret

Hand Knit posted:

Raul Esparza was a Perez Hilton type who killed someone as part of a plot blackmailing Samantha Bee.

Oh yeah, forgot it was part of that episode.

Another good one in a slightly different sense: Larry Miller played Michael Dobson repeatedly killing his wives in seasons 5 and 6, then appeared as himself in season 13.

HOLY FUCK
Mar 31, 2007

Cats are terrifying, everyone knows that! 'Cause they're witches! And they've got knives in their feet!


Speaking of Raul Esparza, the episode that they're rerunning tomorrow on NBC during OC's usual timeslot is the Barba vs Carisi courtroom showdown one. :siren: LAWYER FIGHT! :siren:

I miss Barba :sigh:

Also where are people watching original L&O at the moment in the US? I looked at Netflix and Hulu and over-the-air tv just seems to have constant NCIS on at all times but no L&O :(

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Michael Emerson was two different creepy bug-eyed killers, but he's kind of cheating because he's never been cast as anything else unless he's a series lead in something.

And Locke's dad from Lost was a pharmaceutical executive who killed people with HIV-infected hemophilia drugs and the killer from the TURN ON THE SUN episode.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

HOLY gently caress posted:

Also where are people watching original L&O at the moment in the US? I looked at Netflix and Hulu and over-the-air tv just seems to have constant NCIS on at all times but no L&O :(

It's on YES TV, weekdays at 5. Season 20 ends this Friday. Looks like they start season 13 next Monday.

SilentChaz
Oct 5, 2011

Sorry, I'm quite busy at the moment.

Hand Knit posted:

Raul Esparza was a Perez Hilton type who killed someone as part of a plot blackmailing Samantha Bee.

He was also a cross-dressing killer on Criminal Intent. I really miss Barba.

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR

HOLY gently caress posted:

Speaking of Raul Esparza, the episode that they're rerunning tomorrow on NBC during OC's usual timeslot is the Barba vs Carisi courtroom showdown one. :siren: LAWYER FIGHT! :siren:

I miss Barba :sigh:

Also where are people watching original L&O at the moment in the US? I looked at Netflix and Hulu and over-the-air tv just seems to have constant NCIS on at all times but no L&O :(

It shows up on weird times at Ion TV and season 13-20 are on demand on Peacock if you have Peacock Premium (4.99).

fartknocker posted:

Ice-T was in Exiled as a pimp or something.

Maybe he was just playing Finn in that one. :v:

fartknocker
Oct 28, 2012


Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.



Wedge Regret

HOLY gently caress posted:

Also where are people watching original L&O at the moment in the US? I looked at Netflix and Hulu and over-the-air tv just seems to have constant NCIS on at all times but no L&O :(

It's on TV a lot. Like, literally, right this moment, it's on We TV. They have all 20 seasons and show them on different days, but they're on different rotations. Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon/evening are currently showing season 7, and it's also on most of Sunday afternoon, where they're on season 3. Ion has something like seasons 13-20, which they show a few mornings a week until about 10 or 11 AM, currently around season 19. BBC America also shows it, at least on Monday nights. They're on season 6 or so right now and show at least the early seasons, but I don't know how far into the series they carry or if it's on any other days.

MJeff posted:

Maybe he was just playing Finn in that one. :v:

I haven't seen it in forever, but I'm pretty sure he died in that, although I can't remember the details of it.

HOLY FUCK
Mar 31, 2007

Cats are terrifying, everyone knows that! 'Cause they're witches! And they've got knives in their feet!


Thanks for the help everyone :unsmith: I don't have cable (so no We TV) since pretty much everything I watch is available either on streaming or over the air broadcast so that might be why I haven't really come across it yet. I did find it on some mornings though on ion and whatever the hell Bounce is, so that's good! :buddy:

Arbite
Nov 4, 2009





This is just gonna be that new show where the policeman solves crimes in his spare time, eh? Not getting any closer to classic L&O, is it?

God, 11 years later and nothing quite fills the hole.

Mooseontheloose
May 13, 2003

fartknocker posted:

It's on TV a lot. Like, literally, right this moment, it's on We TV. They have all 20 seasons and show them on different days, but they're on different rotations. Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon/evening are currently showing season 7, and it's also on most of Sunday afternoon, where they're on season 3. Ion has something like seasons 13-20, which they show a few mornings a week until about 10 or 11 AM, currently around season 19. BBC America also shows it, at least on Monday nights. They're on season 6 or so right now and show at least the early seasons, but I don't know how far into the series they carry or if it's on any other days.


I was goign to say on my cable package: BBC America, Ovation, and WE at the very least play Law and Order Classic.

fartknocker
Oct 28, 2012


Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.



Wedge Regret
I’m pretty sure there are more channels, those are just the ones I knew off hand show the original series and where to check on my grid. I know someone mentioned Bounce, an OTA channel I don’t get but some family does, airs it as well, and I’m sure it’s probably one some of those other sub channels or cable stuff as well.

The Notorious ZSB
Apr 19, 2004

I SAID WE'RE NOT GONNA BE FUCKING SUCK THIS YEAR!!!

I've got the entire original run as :filez: on my plex server, so that was my answer to this access issue for OG.

HOLY FUCK
Mar 31, 2007

Cats are terrifying, everyone knows that! 'Cause they're witches! And they've got knives in their feet!


Yay, I'm watching original L&O right now and enjoying it so far: it's season 1, episode 12 with a bombing at an abortion clinic. Have only figured out one two characters' names so far but I liked this line: "Look at us, three men discussing which rights a woman should have over her body. Doesn't that strike you as a little one-sided?" I don't remember how things were in 1991 with regards to abortion rights but it's a more nuanced treatment of the issue than I was expecting for the time period going into it, I guess!

Anyway now I'm addicted to this too, gently caress. :shepface:

edit: Whoa, Cragen?! I knew he had been on the franchise for a long time but I didn't know it was that long

HOLY FUCK fucked around with this message at 18:10 on May 7, 2021

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Generally speaking, people had way more abortion rights in 1991 than they do today.

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

HOLY gently caress posted:

edit: Whoa, Cragen?! I knew he had been on the franchise for a long time but I didn't know it was that long

Yep. Dann Florek was in the first three seasons of Vanilla before he was let go due to NBC mandate (the show was dipping badly in the ratings, so NBC ordered Dick Wolf to put some women in the cast; previously it was an entirely male starring ensemble), but he did a few more guest appearances on Vanilla and also had a supporting role in the Exiled TV movie that starred Chris Noth. Wolf had always respected that Florek was a loyal soldier, came back a few times when offered and didn't do any public complaining when he got sacked from Vanilla, so when he was looking for a squad commander for SVU, Florek was the first person he called and a deal was struck relatively quickly.

fartknocker
Oct 28, 2012


Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.



Wedge Regret
Florek also either wrote or directed an episode or two of Vanilla during the years before he came back with SVU. He also guested in a few other episodes as well during that time, with them saying Cragen was in some task force.

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

fartknocker posted:

He also guested in a few other episodes as well during that time, with them saying Cragen was in some task force.

... I said that in my post.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..
Just watched the last episode of Law and Order classic. Two thoughts: One is that the bit at the end with the alarm ringing and no other noise is pretty good. The other is that the big break in the case comes from Lindsay Vonn.

Congratulations to Lindsay Vonn, who broke the final case in Law and Order classic.

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

Hand Knit posted:

Just watched the last episode of Law and Order classic. Two thoughts: One is that the bit at the end with the alarm ringing and no other noise is pretty good. The other is that the big break in the case comes from Lindsay Vonn.

Congratulations to Lindsay Vonn, who broke the final case in Law and Order classic.

Rubber Room is absolutely a phenomenal episode, and given the procedural and episodic nature of the show, it works out incredibly well as a series finale, even though it was absolutely in no way intended as such. Just another happy accident, which happened to Law & Order quite a bit throughout its 20-year run.

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR
It was intended to be Van Buren's write-off, though, right?

fartknocker
Oct 28, 2012


Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.



Wedge Regret

Timby posted:

... I said that in my post.

:doh: phone posting in haste lol

MJeff posted:

It was intended to be Van Buren's write-off, though, right?

Yes, S. Epatha Merkerson had already announced she was leaving the show before it was cancelled and the season finale also turned into the series finale.

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR
I'm watching old Classic episodes now, does SVU still use "B-Frendz" as the universe's all-purpose off-brand social network or do they actually just call stuff by name nowadays? :v:

HOLY FUCK
Mar 31, 2007

Cats are terrifying, everyone knows that! 'Cause they're witches! And they've got knives in their feet!


I’m not sure about the names SVU uses for social networks since I haven’t heard any come up lately except for “Redchannit” for their 4chan & Reddit stand in which is loving hilarious

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I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Was Redchannit the one that used the SA grenade logo?

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