Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Detectives Stabler and Benson investigate the murder and dismemberment of a taxi driver; the team discovers that he may have been a vicious Serbian wa...
Benson and Stabler run into multiple dead ends while investigating the case of a woman who plummeted six stories to her death clad only in a slip.
When a teen model is murdered and another is left for dead at a hospital emergency room, the team uncovers an insidious drug and sex conspiracy in the...
When a young African-American woman is found dead, she is initially believed to be a prostitute and the latest in a long line of victims, but when loo...
When a world-traveling author is found dead in a room he rented from an alcoholic woman and her precocious 14-year-old daughter, the detectives are sh...
A female student at an upper-class university is raped and murdered, and two of the college's basketball stars are suspected. However, the college blo...
When a young boy is found raped and murdered in a field, suspicion leads detectives to a recently paroled child molester who lives in the neighborhood...
When an assistant district attorney is found raped and murdered in Central Park, the Special Victims Unit learn that she'd been stalked by a real esta...
An investment analyst is found hanged in her bedroom, and the Special Victims Unit explores her sordid sexual past to uncover her murderer's identity....
When a woman is raped, she turns to the Special Victims Unit for help, but lack of evidence prevents them from apprehending the criminal. When the det...
A moral coalition leader's gay son is found murdered on the roof of his apartment building. Initially, Benson and Stabler investigate his father, a Co...
When a multi-millionaire is found strangled in his home, Benson and Stabler turn their suspicion to his long list of lovers, which includes both men a...
A judge who fought for the rights of abused women is found shot in his car under sordid circumstances, and the detectives uncover a case of corruption...
At the request of a victim, the police commissioner comes to Cragen with a special request -- close the five-year-old case of a serial rapist before t...
After a salesman is murdered, the detectives turn their attention to the youngest daughter of a well-known family with some deep connections. But as t...
An elderly woman is found tied up and sexually assaulted in her apartment, and suspicion is initially on the young men that had broken into her home a...
The pregnant daughter-in-law of a Christian College president is murdered in her hotel room, and the detectives discover that the man had been involve...
When a teenage girl comes into the squad room to tell the detectives that she was raped by a man she met on the Internet, the investigation leads the...
After seven young women in a six month time span are raped by a flash and dash assailant on the city subways, the brass calls in a psychiatrist to hel...
A female television news reporter decides to go public with her story when she attacked and raped by two men, but the decision proves to be fatal.
After a pharmacy turns over some disturbing photos of a young boy, a beloved neighborhood piano teacher is suspected of being a sexual predator who ta...
A Romanian immigrant is being held as a psychological prisoner by her abusive employer and his wife, who is also traumatized by years of abuse and is...
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TMDB Reviews
1 year ago
This series is a poster child for the way the US wants the world, to perceive its justice system.
Hard working, earnest police, backed by an imperfect but mostly well meaning, justice system.
Of course, if you look behind the veil nothing could be further from the truth. The justice system and not just in the US, mind you is abusive and broken. More often than not failing victims and on a certain level, criminals, who often started out as victims of its indifference and outright cruelty.
I find long running series like this one annoying, in so much as they largely, shore up establishment narratives, rather than exposing them, for what they are.
Acting is reasonable but feels a little forced and unrealistic, at times. Its not helped by rather predictably, formulaic characterisations.
In summary, I rate this series down not just because its somewhat formulaic and bland but because, in my view, it does the truth of the world we live in, a disservice. Things can only improve when reality is exposed for what it is, not buried beneath pro establishment, "the system mostly works" narratives.
Nicki
TMDB1 year ago
26 SEASONS there's a reason SVU is the longest-running primetime live-action series on American television. Every year this show is a must watch. The storylines are compelling and the actors are usually current, former or up-and-coming stars. Some "fans" have complained about the changing of cast members but I think it's what keeps the show fresh. Hoping for many more seasons with Benson to come.
