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Post by catherine on Oct 18, 2018 20:44:55 GMT -5
Is anyone else beginning to hate L&O SVU? I loved the original L&O and have always watched SVU -- though I despise Miss Goody Two-Shoes Olivia Benson (no cop is that perfect and I can't stand that phony "I'm so concerned" expression) -- but this season, it's turned into nothing more than a liberal progressive soapbox where every show has to address some sort of perceived social injustice.
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Post by madeline on Oct 18, 2018 23:10:30 GMT -5
I totally agree. After the first SVU this season, the one about the school shooting, I haven't watched it anymore. In that one, that damned kid Noah defied Benson, which was probably setting the stage for a lot more of him in upcoming shows. Too much time is already devoted to her private life, which no one cares about. And what's with the other woman detective being pregnant? You would think that a woman working in sex crimes would at least know how to keep from getting knocked up.
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Post by pat on Oct 19, 2018 3:34:06 GMT -5
I totally agree. After the first SVU this season, the one about the school shooting, I haven't watched it anymore. In that one, that damned kid Noah defied Benson, which was probably setting the stage for a lot more of him in upcoming shows. Too much time is already devoted to her private life, which no one cares about. And what's with the other woman detective being pregnant? You would think that a woman working in sex crimes would at least know how to keep from getting knocked up. I haven't watched it much since Benson was put in charge of the precinct. But the few times that I have, instead of staying at the precinct and making command decisions and managing her detectives, she's constantly out doing the work of an ordinary detective, which doesn't happen in real life.
I think that the woman who plays Amanda Rollins is pregnant, but they should put her on desk duty or write her out of the show until after she has the baby. I always find it amusing how all these pregnant women on TV shows go about their work just like they did before when any woman who's ever been pregnant knows that's not the way it is. For one thing, you have to pee all the time and if you were riding around in a police car all day, you'd be having to be constantly stopping for bathroom breaks.
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Post by steve on Oct 19, 2018 21:39:49 GMT -5
Of the 3 L&O shows, SVU was never my favorite. I liked the original L&O and Criminal Intent before Vincent D'Onofrio was replaced by Zack Nichols, who was played by Jeff Goldblum, who is so ugly I don't know how he ever got on TV. I never liked Chris Noth either, who was also on L&O Criminal Intent. He was my least favorite detective on L&O, too.
As for SVU, I've never liked Benson, not even before Stabler left. Her breathy voice and unnatural facial expressions are too much.
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Post by pat on Oct 20, 2018 1:35:05 GMT -5
Of the 3 L&O shows, SVU was never my favorite. I liked the original L&O and Criminal Intent before Vincent D'Onofrio was replaced by Zack Nichols, who was played by Jeff Goldblum, who is so ugly I don't know how he ever got on TV. I never liked Chris Noth either, who was also on L&O Criminal Intent. He was my least favorite detective on L&O, too.
As for SVU, I've never liked Benson, not even before Stabler left. Her breathy voice and unnatural facial expressions are too much. I didn't like the Zack Nichols character either and I've never been a fan of Chris Noth. I also don't like Peter Stone (don't know his real name), the new ADA.
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Post by Kate on Oct 20, 2018 15:02:38 GMT -5
I didn't like the Zack Nichols character either and I've never been a fan of Chris Noth. I also don't like Peter Stone (don't know his real name), the new ADA. I don't like Stone either, Barba was much better, but I think something's going to develop between him and Benson. My favorite ADA was Mike Cutter, who was on the regular L&O.
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Post by jason on Oct 21, 2018 0:00:40 GMT -5
I don't like Stone either, Barba was much better, but I think something's going to develop between him and Benson. My favorite ADA was Mike Cutter, who was on the regular L&O. Linus Roache, the actor who played Mike Cutter, had dinner with us one night at Antoine's. My grandmother had made reservations for 6, but my granddad begged off, claiming he was tired, my dad didn't make it back in time and my sister had something better to do. So it was just my grandmother, mother and me. While we were waiting to be shown to our table, Roache and his wife came in and were talking with the maiter d' who was telling them he didn't have anything available. My grandmother overheard the conversation and told them they were welcome to join us since we had 3 missing from our table. She didn't know who he was, but told him he looked familiar and resembled a man she'd once known from Georgia. I told her he looked familiar because he was the ADA on L&O and, of course, she recognized him then. Both he and his wife were nice for Brits, but I guess they'd been in the US long enough that they'd become somewhat Americanized. He said both his parents were actors and said something about having parents in acting was helpful initially, but if you weren't good, you wouldn't make it. Without thinking, I blurted out that he must not be familiar with Nicolas Cage. Cage had bought 1140 Royal Street (the haunted LaLaurie house) a few months earlier and Roache and his wife said they had wanted to see some of the haunted houses, but didn't have time and had to leave the next day. We gave them a lift back to their hotel and drove by the LaLaurie house and stopped and looked at it. They didn't know Cage had bought it. During dinner, the wife, Rosalind, said that in New York, no one would ever ask strangers to join them for dinner and that what she'd heard about the South was true, that people were super nice and friendly, whether they knew you or not.
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Post by steve on Oct 21, 2018 15:46:01 GMT -5
Linus Roache, the actor who played Mike Cutter, had dinner with us one night at Antoine's. My grandmother had made reservations for 6, but my granddad begged off, claiming he was tired, my dad didn't make it back in time and my sister had something better to do. So it was just my grandmother, mother and me. While we were waiting to be shown to our table, Roache and his wife came in and were talking with the maiter d' who was telling them he didn't have anything available. My grandmother overheard the conversation and told them they were welcome to join us since we had 3 missing from our table. She didn't know who he was, but told him he looked familiar and resembled a man she'd once known from Georgia. I told her he looked familiar because he was the ADA on L&O and, of course, she recognized him then. Both he and his wife were nice for Brits, but I guess they'd been in the US long enough that they'd become somewhat Americanized. He said both his parents were actors and said something about having parents in acting was helpful initially, but if you weren't good, you wouldn't make it. Without thinking, I blurted out that he must not be familiar with Nicolas Cage. Cage had bought 1140 Royal Street (the haunted LaLaurie house) a few months earlier and Roache and his wife said they had wanted to see some of the haunted houses, but didn't have time and had to leave the next day. We gave them a lift back to their hotel and drove by the LaLaurie house and stopped and looked at it. They didn't know Cage had bought it. During dinner, the wife, Rosalind, said that in New York, no one would ever ask strangers to join them for dinner and that what she'd heard about the South was true, that people were super nice and friendly, whether they knew you or not. So in the south, if people are told there's nothing available in a crowded restaurant, other guests are expected to invite them to sit at their table?
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Post by kitty on Oct 21, 2018 22:36:36 GMT -5
Linus Roache, the actor who played Mike Cutter, had dinner with us one night at Antoine's. My grandmother had made reservations for 6, but my granddad begged off, claiming he was tired, my dad didn't make it back in time and my sister had something better to do. So it was just my grandmother, mother and me. While we were waiting to be shown to our table, Roache and his wife came in and were talking with the maiter d' who was telling them he didn't have anything available. My grandmother overheard the conversation and told them they were welcome to join us since we had 3 missing from our table. She didn't know who he was, but told him he looked familiar and resembled a man she'd once known from Georgia. I told her he looked familiar because he was the ADA on L&O and, of course, she recognized him then. Both he and his wife were nice for Brits, but I guess they'd been in the US long enough that they'd become somewhat Americanized. He said both his parents were actors and said something about having parents in acting was helpful initially, but if you weren't good, you wouldn't make it. Without thinking, I blurted out that he must not be familiar with Nicolas Cage. Cage had bought 1140 Royal Street (the haunted LaLaurie house) a few months earlier and Roache and his wife said they had wanted to see some of the haunted houses, but didn't have time and had to leave the next day. We gave them a lift back to their hotel and drove by the LaLaurie house and stopped and looked at it. They didn't know Cage had bought it. During dinner, the wife, Rosalind, said that in New York, no one would ever ask strangers to join them for dinner and that what she'd heard about the South was true, that people were super nice and friendly, whether they knew you or not. What do you mean by they were nice for Brits? What are Brits usually like?
Linus Roache just made the movie "Mandy" with Nicolas Cage. He plays a Charles Manson character and Cage is the hero. From the trailers I think that it's a blood and gore movie where Cage kills people with a chainsaw. I'm sure there'll be a screaming scene. There always is in Cage movies.
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Post by madeline on Oct 21, 2018 23:32:05 GMT -5
So in the south, if people are told there's nothing available in a crowded restaurant, other guests are expected to invite them to sit at their table? You're not "expected" to invite them to your table, but if they look like respectable people and you've got room at your table, it's polite to invite them.
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Post by jason on Oct 22, 2018 11:37:24 GMT -5
What do you mean by they were nice for Brits? What are Brits usually like?
Linus Roache just made the movie "Mandy" with Nicolas Cage. He plays a Charles Mansion character and Cage is the hero. From the trailers I think that it's a blood and gore movie where Cage kills people with a chainsaw. I'm sure there'll be a screaming scene. There always is in Cage movies. 1. A lot of British men put on airs in America. Remember the "Seinfeld" episode where Elaine had this British man visiting and he was always correcting her and acting superior to everyone else? Well, that's the way a lot of them act despite being from a pissant liberal progressive country, where prices are sky-high and everyone is on the dole. 2. I said he was nice, I didn't say he was smart.
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Post by Sam on Oct 22, 2018 19:13:17 GMT -5
I looked at the trailer for "Mandy" and I don't think it's something that I would want to see.
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Post by catherine on Dec 7, 2018 20:30:47 GMT -5
Did anyone see last night's Law and Order SVU, which was about damned illegal aliens? Benson actually had someone from a federal agency arrested because he separated some brat from her criminal mother, who entered the country illegally. If a real life cop did such a thing, he/she would at least be reprimanded, but as usual, Benson got away with it. I seldom watch SUV anymore because of all the liberal PC BS.
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