The ninth season of the police procedural/legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered September 25, 2007 and ended May 13, 2008 on NBC. Watch Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 7, Episode 3 - 911: Benson is on her way out for the evening when a call comes in from a little girl who says she's. Created by Dick Wolf. With Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina, S. Epatha Merkerson. Follows a crime, usually adapted from current headlines, from two.

Ranking Every Single Episode of . Roughly 1. 6,8. 00 minutes, plus more cameos, crimes, and criminals than you could imagine. This week Law and Order: Special Victims Unit airs its 4. SVU fan I’m celebrating by ranking every single episode ever.

The series ran for 20 seasons on NBC, from 1990 to 2010, with 456 episodes.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was renewed for a sixteenth season on May 7, 2014, by NBC. Production on the season. The hot-button "Unstoppable" episode of NBC's 'L&O: SVU,' which is inspired by Donald Trump, will not air -- at least not during the current TV season. Watch Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 18, Episode 16 - The Newsroom: A news anchor makes an on-air disclosure of rape against her boss, leading Benson and.

Possibly damaging to my mental and emotional health? God, I hope so. I’ve been watching SVU for 1. The show serves a few purposes for fans.

Sometimes it provides emotional catharsis, sometimes it sheds light on real- life issues of violence and discrimination, and other times – okay, most of the time – it’s utterly bonkers sensationalism that’s so salacious and twisted you can’t help but slurp it up. To rank all 4. 00 episodes, I took a few things into consideration: How original is the premise? How clever is the twist(s)? If the episode is based on a real- life incident, how well does the show comment on it? But most important: How much did the episode leave me crying / screaming at the TV / gasping in shock? Find out my bottom 2.

SVU’s 4. 00th episode to air on NBC.(Expect all the SPOILERS. This article also includes some graphic language relating to violence and sexual assault.)3. Listen, I’ve been a devout SVU fan for 1. Attempting to comment on Ferguson and Freddie Gray, the episode finds three (never- before- seen) detectives shooting and killing an unarmed black man they pursued as a rapist.

I’ll give it this – it presents an interesting angle of showing the perspectives of fictional cops we’ve grown to love and trust (and the circumstances are notably different from real- life incidents). BUT when Benson and the squad defend the shooting, my SVU heart broke a little.

At least Barba, a supporter of Black Lives Matter, grills them hard in front of a grand jury. But jeez, bad move guys. A custody battle is spurred by the reveal that a fertility clinic gave a mother another woman’s embryos. An interesting idea on paper, but tedious and plodding onscreen. An SVU episode without sexual assault, twisted sexual relationships, or murder?!

No thanks. 3. 97. I’d seen this episode and couldn’t remember the plot until watching it all the way through a second time.

A playwright daughter has it out for her aging sexist father. Then there’s a trial and . Who knew investigating a multi- city serial rapist could be so boring? This episode came out in 2.

SVU still depicted queer homeless youth as feisty caricatures slathered in lipstick. This is also a Chicago P. D. 7 SVU is full of terrible mothers, but this one is pretty tame.

Josie Bisset plays a pregnant alcoholic who gets arrested by Benson when she violates a court order not to drink. And that’s pretty much it. Not that I’m begging for soul- shattering episodes only about assault and kidnapping, but c’mon, this is SVU. Gimme what I came for.

This episode opens to a terrible pop song playing over a montage of a teenage girl getting ready to go out. Then she wakes up stuffed inside of a suitcase. I never called SVU classy but c’mon. Also, the main suspect is a painfully bad Shia La. Beouf rip- off who wears a paper bag on his head.

On one hand this is a suspenseful hour of SVU – there’s a tense rooftop shootout, a kidnapped victim, and Ice- T one- liners. But this is also the Gamergate episode, which did a terrible job of giving insightful, non- sensationalized commentary about this real- life story. You can do better, SVU. Some of my least favorite SVU episodes are about crime rings.

They’re set up to be suspenseful pursuits full of undercover work, but often end up being pretty dull and redundant. This one about illegal immigrants definitely is. A young actress tried for statutory rape leads the squad to a pervy producer who sleeps with underage girls. Same old story, just set in Hollywood. A young girl joins the porn industry and gets assaulted by two college students at a party.

Pretty forgettable. A case that leads back to a doctor (Elizabeth Mc. Govern) who teaches military torture techniques. It’s the Lifetime movie version of an SVU episode, mostly for the bad music plays as former prisoners recount their stories.

Hey guys, we gotta do an episode about Trayvon Martin! But instead of depicting George Zimmerman, let’s kill two birds with one stone and make the shooter a Paula Deen- type!”Cybill Sheperd doing her best Paul Deen (NBC)3.

A college professor stalked a girl, watched her die, and then dragged her body outside to engage in some necrophilia. Admirably gross, but a pretty simple case full of too many red herrings. Rollins’ sister gets tangled up in a rape case involving a flutist. Ever notice that the later seasons often depend on the detective’s personal lives for drama and suspense?

Yeah, those are not good. A detective for the D. A. Interesting mystery, unsatisfying reveal.

A jealous gymnast kills another gymnast with a brick to the head. Sounds more thrilling than it is.

After tackling the Ray Rice elevator assault (tacked on to the Solange- Jay Z incident) four episodes before this one, SVU does it again, only with a sportscaster as the abuser. The squad finds a girl’s dead body and uses her DNA to find her killer. Never seen that on a crime show before! Real- life celebrity incidents are perfect scandalous fodder for SVU, but the show often depicts those stories of real- life violence and weighty topics as cartoonish. That was especially the case for this Rihanna- and- Chris Brown- inspired episode. Whoopi Goldberg plays the head of child services who’s accused of manslaughter.

Episodes about good intentioned people who screw up might be more reflective of real- life, but don’t make for engaging TV. You’ll hear me say this again and again, but SVU episodes that are more about the detectives’ personal drama than twisty cases are always the most disappointing. Points for giving Rollins an interesting addiction to explore, but can we get back to solving crimes?

A group of friends orchestrate the gang- rape of their friend (Lola Kirke) at a concert. In a weak twist, it’s a former vet and bouncer with PTSD who miraculously remembers something that helps the squad prosecute their suspects. Tribeca teenagers gone wild! Rainbow parties! Nude photos on the internet! Missi Pyle as an anti- vaxxer mom! There’s way too much going on in this scattered episode.

Just another negative portrayal of a trans person played by cis actress Kate Moennig. Her character is a trans woman who murders a guy who threatens to out her. Points for trying to tell a story about the real- life violence in the trans community, but still, not great Bob. When a terminal cancer patient (Brian Dennehy) asks to see his daughter one last time, he reveals he committed a series of bank robberies and murders 3.

One of those episodes that tries something different, but it ultimately ends up being a bore. In this episode Amaro finally stands up to his abusive father. Feels more like a soap opera than a cop procedural. This episode starts out with a bang (pun intended, sorry) when Rollins gets shot by a sniper, but it quickly devolves into a forgettable exploration of Fin’s Narcotics backstory. At least 2 Chainz shows up with a fantastic line about his face being sewed onto a soccer ball.

Chainz after his happy ending massage gets interrupted. Too bad the real Solange- Jay Z elevator incident was ten times more exciting than SVU’s take on it. I’m sorry but did the writers have so few ideas that an episode about a dad plotting the kidnapping of his own son to make his “spaced out” ex- wife pay more attention seemed like a clever idea?

I mean, it had my attention but that’s your twist? When Rollins asks a model if a famous photographer forced her to have sex with him she retorts back, “He didn’t hold a gun on me! Well, actually, he did. But it wasn’t loaded.” If you’re going to take on Terry Richardson’s sexual assault allegations, maybe don’t make it so laughable. Another episode where Amaro is a carbon copy of Stabler. He shoots a kid in this episode, but we’ve been there, done that.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 9)The ninth season of the police procedural/legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered September 2. May 1. 3, 2. 00. 8 on NBC. It aired on Tuesday nights at 1. Mariska Hargitay, having won a Golden Globe Award in 2. Golden Globe nomination for her work in the ninth season. Production. The last episode crediting Baer as the primary writer was the seventh season episode .

Multiple episodes of the ninth season dealt openly with the abortion debate. A 2. 00. 8 article for Newsday that criticized American media for avoiding any mention of abortion called Law & Order: SVU the . When discussing the visuals in Season 9, Neal Baer said . As a result, other characters begin to refer to him as Sergeant John Munch. Season 9 dramatically reduced the amount of screen time given to Richard Belzer and the following seasons of SVUcontinued to do the same. When commenting on the reduction in his workload, Belzer said he was .

Asked if she was blindsided by the news, Neal responded . I've lasted longer by several years than almost any other ADA . So every year I've been like, 'Is this going to be the one when I leave?' Dick Wolf is known for replacing his cast regularly.

And the truth is, I'm really looking forward to the future. A plan announced by Neal Baer in February 2. However, days after Diane Neal's departure was announced, Adam Beach announced that he was departing the cast as well. Nixon described it by saying . Bronson Pinchot starred as her psychiatrist. He talked about working with Meloni and Hargitay and described them as .

Williams was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. Watch Some Freaks Online Metacritic. He mentioned Cynthia Nixon and Robin Williams as examples and said that the details of their stories were only written after it was known that they would be available. In the same episode, reporter David Keeps, who is a friend of Mariska Hargitay, briefly appeared as an unnamed detective.

Keeps wrote that he only went to the SVU set for a visit until Hargitay arranged to have him written into the scene at the last minute. The episode began filming in April 2. Children's author Robert Black praised SVU's ability to find good child actors and said that Gerzon . Faith Sutton, a doctor who feels it is her duty to help the war on terror by teaching torture techniques. When talking about this issue, Neal Baer explained .

Baer said that Christopher Meloni requested this line to help keep his character three- dimensional. The episode . Louisiana debate about punishing child rape with the death penalty. Sam Waterston made an appearance as his Law & Order character, DA Jack Mc. Coy. Since the eighteenth season of Law & Order had yet to air at this point, this was the first time that Jack Mc. Coy appeared as the DA rather than an EADA.

The episode . This marked their first acting appearance together even though Coco had appeared on SVU once before. Bruce Fretts of TV Guide said he . This was not in the script but Meloni insisted on it while the scene was filmed saying . The episode was filmed in a real prison. As a way of complimenting Pullman, Neal Baer joked that . When asked if he enjoyed being on SVU, Collins tweeted .

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