D.A. Jack McCoy

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It was an interesting sweeps stunt, and a good way to keep the mothership's fading beacon heard.

On another front: Isn't SVU becoming dangerously ER-like, with crazier and crazier **** happening each week. One week, a pizza bomb in the next room. The next, Stabler goes temporarily blind. Plus, the perfunctory debate class in the squad room over some hot topic. And almost every week, the evil feds. Along with a cast that by the 15th season will have members hanging out the squad-room window in the opening shot because of volume. All troubling to me.

I'll continue to watch because L&O is my wife's favorite, but SVU is getting worse and doing it quickly. Ice T is a menace as an actor at anything over one line per half-hour, Belzer is basically the squad room's Wikipedia, Hargitay's reaction when Meloni got headbutted last night was atrocious and, as you said, the preaching has just reached painful heights.

There are worse things on TV, but there are far better as well.

Last night's episode was dreadful. The new guy is just there, being partnered with Ice-T, who has all the range of stale bread. Belzer's miscast as the office know-all who on occasion cracks a joke. The sexual tension between Meloni and Hagarity has reached "**** or get off the pot" levels. And the Hagarity-Neal interaction following the fax to McCoy was ridiculous.

Other than that, it was a fine episode.