Who watches Special Victims Unit?

[markus]

Was that the particular flavor of the police/lawyer epic that was on last night, about the young boys who murdered a woman?

My wife loves this entire series, and I enjoy it in moderation. Last night's show had my wife in tears, and me both angry at the blonde bitch Asst DA, and at the entire premise.

Do you really unjoy SVU? Last night's show was just gruesome and emotionally wrenching. I don't get the point. Does someone actually enjoy watching it? Did you enjoy seeing the 14 year old go to prison for life for the crime the 12 year old commited?

What precisely was their to enjoy?

[Drifter]

1. I usually end up watching this show ...

and I agree, last nights episode was very emotional. Talk about having a bad ending. The boys mom took a gamble that everyone advised against, and that was the sad part. I pray that I am never faced with this situation.

I do like this show, and last nights episode will not change that.

Cheers
Drifter

[roughsatori]

2. You could ask that about Euripides' play "Medea"

Did you enjoy a mother killing her children?

I watched last night and enjoyed it very much. I watched it with my mother. Afterward she said: "That makes me want to start writing letters about our legal system." She cried during the episode, then said that it was one of the most moving shows she had seen in a while. It motivated her to continue to want to change our system. She used to be an advocate for developmentally disabled children.

You wrote: "Last night's show was just gruesome and emotionally wrenching," and that you don't get the point. That is the point for some people. I like anything that wrenches me emotionally on TV. My mother likes things that motivate her and enforce her views that the system needs to be changed.

Not everyone has to like everything. That is why there is vanilla and chocolate. Next week go into a different room when your wife watches it.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. Whoever writes for the Law and Order franchise...

certainly knows their stuff...Most of their shows have something gripping, twists and turns...the makings of good drama. They're some of my favorites.
Duckie

[sasquatch]

4. What happened?

I didn't see it could you give me a quick runthrough of what happened to the kids.

[XNASA]

5. Last night's episode "Juvenile", was very disturbing.

So disturbing in fact, that I had trouble sleeping. I almost started a thread earlier this morning, wanting to discuss this very episode, but stopped short. I was trying to put it out of my mind.

The boy who played Jeremy Brice is an actor from the Nickolodean group. His name is Shane Lyons and he just did a fantastic job. But the thing that really got me was, he looks just like our 12 year old son. I just couldn't watch without thinking about our son. It really got to me.

And no, I didn't enjoy it at all. To see the 14 year old suffer for the crimes of the 12 year old. It was truly almost more than I could bear. It still bothers me today.

I think I'm going to heap a lot of attention and affection on our son tonight when I get home.

[Susang]

6. I love the show

They use mostly local NYC stage actors and write their scripts based on stories/crimes that actually occurred. Life may not always be pleasant but it's almost always dramatic. The show is intelligent and well acted which is more than I can say about 90% of commercial television.

[monkeyboy]

7. I don't care for it

It's like Ted Bundy porno most of the time, and I don't waste my time with it. I like the original LAO much better, it's one of my favorite shows.

[markus]

8. This was not euripides or shakespear

People in classic tragedy tend to deserve what happens to them. Catharsis occurs because we see it coming and the characters do not.

That show was the melodramatic equivalent of porn: punching the right buttons just for the sake of punching the right buttons.

I'm not a squeamish person. I was a newspaper reporter and did my time on the night/police beat. Shows like the original LAO and Homicide are some of my favorite television.

If the point of last night's show was to make us all viscerally hate career prosecutors, well, too late. I already do. I think they're mostly freeper slime buckets.

I'm sorry, but I don't think I'd enjoy Kafka as much if his anti-heros/victims were children.

[mitchum]

9. I enjoy it as lurid pulp...

as other posters have pointed out; it's not Euripides, but what is?