Law and Order: SVU Reviews DD

This is a set of reviews of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes. My general thoughts about that show are here. I’ll often do no more than make brief notes about an episode, although occasionally I’ll go deeper. Also, often there are dissenting main characters on almost any political issue, but you can usually tell what the general position of the show is. All the rest of the reviews are available by clicking on the l&osvu label at the bottom.

(Now that I’m watching the episodes that involve the character John Munch, I’m going to ignore most of his political statements)

“Trophy” Season 12. See this for a summary.

At the beginning there are two very minor characters that are in an inter-racial relationship.

“Penetration” See this for a summary.

A small part of this is about the FBI investigating the far-right. More specifically there’s a smaller part about anti-muslim bigots. It focuses on a protest of what some called the “ground zero mosque.” There was an effort to build a mosque close to the World Trade Center in NYC. In a post at the time, I suggested that those behind it should compare their refusal to build it somewhere else to Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on that bus.

“Pop” Season 12. See this for a plot summary.

A fairly innocent minor character says that his brother died after breathing in dust at Ground Zero (the World Trade Center on 9/11). The collapse of both towers released a huge amount of dust that included glass and other things you don’t want to breathe in. Some agency of the Bush administration, probably OSHA or the EPA, said it was safe but it wasn’t and a lot of people ended up very sick because of it.

“Mask” Season 12. See this for as plot summary.

The two victims are a gay female couple.

“Flight” Season 12. See this for a plot summary.

The rapist is a wealthy defense contractor and the SVU initially investigates cautiously because of the power and influence he has. At one point Detective Fin points out that they would approach it very differently if the suspect was blue collar.