Law & Order: SVU 5/16/06: Tom Cruise lawyer alert!

[Ingersoll]

On tonight's season finale: ;)

ARE PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS NECESSARY? - In SVU's season seven finale, former rock star Derek Lord goes on a national talk show and lectures about the abuse of psychiatric drugs. Meanwhile, an unstable young woman Jamie Hoskins , who loses her virginity, goes off her prescribed medication, gets behind the wheel of a car, and mows down 10 people. As these events are played out in a highly charged way, the argument about prescribed "meds" is challenged.

[YCantAngieRead]

Ugh.

I hate this debate.

[pawchikapawpaw]

GLIB! You're All Glib!

[djithm]

Was this suppose to be the season finale? If so...no cliffhangers whatsoever. weak.

[Idearat]

Was this suppose to be the season finale? If so...no cliffhangers whatsoever. weak.

Who said a season finale had do be a cliffhanger? I applaud a show that doesn't have to stoop to a cheap ploy to drag people back in the fall like so many other shows have done.

[Jesda]

Who said a season finale had do be a cliffhanger? I applaud a show that doesn't have to stoop to a cheap ploy to drag people back in the fall like so many other shows have done.

Me too. This episode was great.

One objection: The rock star guy lumped libertarians in with scientologists. Libertarians dont care about this issue.

[TiVo'Brien]

Love the cute blonde chick. :) Loved her on that Dick Clark family show set in the 60's, too.

[scottykempf]

From doing two guys in the bathroom to running down 7 people and killing one of them with her car. Wow. Good ep.

[Amnesia]

Love the cute blonde chick. :) Loved her on that Dick Clark family show set in the 60's, too.And let's not forget her turn on Nip/Tuck...

[TiVo'Brien]

I hope the promiscuity featured on the show was overstated. I know that type of stuff never happened when I was their age.

(Darn it!)

[JYoung]

I thought that almost no one did ECT anymore.

Is it just me or have Benson and Stabler worked very few cases together this season?
(And I've had this feeling even before the shooting)

[Zevida]

Is it just me or have Benson and Stabler worked very few cases together this season?
(And I've had this feeling even before the shooting)

It does seem that way, that they let one detective be the lead in the investigation, as if to give that actor their own episode, then they are in the background more later.

I wasn't a huge fan of this episode. I hate "ripped from the headlines" stuff. It always seems so fake and contrived. I mean, the whole thing was ridiculous from start to finish.

[FireMen2003]

Is it just me or have Benson and Stabler worked very few cases together this season?
(And I've had this feeling even before the shooting)

Olivia is (or was, I believe she had the baby this month) pregnant so they have reduced her on air appearances....

[ccouger]

I thought he had less time in this episode probably because he had to carry the two previous episodes while she was on desk duty. They did the same thing on the X-Files when Gillian Anderson was pregnant, leaving one character to do the majority of a few episodes. What about Munch? He only had one line in this episode! And I think he had only a few lines in last week's episode.

I thought the actor cast as the rock star showed very little personality or charisma. For a character who was supposed to be a celebrity, the trial seemed to be ignored by the general public. One scene showed the rock star and the trial lawyer chatting alone outside the courtroom, with no enterouge, no reporters, no fans surrounding them. Maybe the L&O people were trying to save on their budget with casting few extras. But a trial with "Tom Cruise" would have had a lot more publicity and a circus atmosphere with the press. They did show reporters surrounding him when he first hired the lawyer for the case, but after that he did not come across as a high-powered celebrity, especially a rock star.

I liked the show better when the stories were more straightforward. They seem to try now for a twist to the stories too many times, so that even the twists start to seem predictable or just overdone with the "victim" somehow to blame.

[YCantAngieRead]

I thought that almost no one did ECT anymore.

Is it just me or have Benson and Stabler worked very few cases together this season?
(And I've had this feeling even before the shooting)
ECT is actually experiencing a bit of a comeback, although in a bit of a different form than it has in the past.

[ccouger]

I thought they did a good job with the camera work of hiding Mariska Hargitay's pregnancy in this episode. If you didn't know it, I don't think it would have been that noticeable from the shots that they were only showing her from shoulders up or sitting, or with her coat on to hide her full length form. It was done in a very subtle way.

[JYoung]

It does seem that way, that they let one detective be the lead in the investigation, as if to give that actor their own episode, then they are in the background more later.



Right, because even before the shooting incident and Mariska started to show, it seemed like half the time that Benson or Stabler was running off with Finn or Muench to pursue a lead.
I was starting to wonder if off screen tension was spilling over into production.

[Zevida]

Right, because even before the shooting incident and Mariska started to show, it seemed like half the time that Benson or Stabler was running off with Finn or Muench to pursue a lead.
I was starting to wonder if off screen tension was spilling over into production.

Maybe the actors like it better for their schedules too. You have a week and a half where you have to work really hard, but then you have a week or so where you only have to show up once or twice for a handful of scenes. They might like having the breaks in their schedule (if that's how they film it anyway. What do I know about that kind of stuff?).

[bottomsup]

And while Benson and Stabler are the leads, pairing them with Finn or Munch occasionally gives those guys more screen time, which is always good to me:)
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