Law & Order: SVU - Discussion Thread

[Liberty City]

At this point, it feels like that's what they're doing with how consistent the crossovers have been happening week-after-week.

[amybrickwallace]

Yeah. Usually they save the crossovers for sweeps.

[Liberty City]

 

[janea4old]

John Oliver of Last Week Tonight uses bits of humor to do a very serious fact-based exposé on a different topic each week.

Sept. 11, 2022 the discussion was the Law&Order franchise and how it very inaccurately depicts police and prosecution. The real-life statistics John Oliver gives are quite staggering.  Very few cases go to trial in real life. There is very little training giving to real cops in New York regarding sexual assault.  And basically, Dick Wolf is pro-cop and that's all he's going to authorize being depicted.

And most alarmingly the unspoken unwritten (yet real) agreement with actual NYPD to portray fictional cops well -- because if L&O doesn't depict their fictional cops in a positive light, the real NYPD will make it difficult for the shows to do filming in New York.

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Edited September 16, 2022 by janea4old

[Liberty City]

 

[Liberty City]

 

[Liberty City]

 

[janea4old]

https://x.com/VanityFair/status/1923845177422250210

Mariska Hargitay has produced a documentary film about her mother Jayne Mansfield, how Jayne was actually intelligent and accomplished and had a normal voice -- and was not the bimbo persona with the breathy voice that was presented to the public.
And that Mariska's biological father was not her legal father who raised her.
Mariska's film is being presented at 2025 Cannes.

Vanity Fair interviewed Mariska about this. 
The detailed interview article also includes new photos of Mariska looking lovely.
Article: 
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/mariska-hargitay-was-living-a-lie-for-30-years

Archived non-paywall link: https://archive.is/b3n0n
 

Edited May 18 by janea4old

[Khan]

I wonder how Mariska feels about "The Jayne Mansfield Story," the late-'70's made-for-TV biopic starring Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger that, IMO, was as trashy and exploitative as it gets.

[janea4old]

Mariska introducing "My Mom Jayne" at Cannes

video with sound

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJxLd3lPAA5/
 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 19 by janea4old

[DemetriKane]

Was it good? 

[janea4old]

Tamara Tunie linked to this on her ig stories:

original video from "sanoj" aka Stephon Jonas Vann

on tiktok as @jonas_sjv 

on ig as  @stephonbetterknownassteph
July 2025

Stephon's original ig post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DMrFLeAx7Hi/
Their ig has disallowed embedding, but if you click on it, it works, and they've credited some of the dancers in the tag

copy on Essence ig:

 

 

The original tiktok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@jonas_sjv/video/7530874525945171213

Edited August 5 by janea4old

[janea4old]

on the official NBC ig and tiktok accounts
Mariska and Kelli doing the above-posted tiktok dance challenge from Stephon 
"Special Dance Unit"

https://www.instagram.com/p/DM056ukuaZn/

Mike Post•The Theme of Law & Order

nbclawandorder
Special Dance Unit

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DC: @stephonbetterknownassteph

 

https://www.tiktok.com/@nbc/video/7533725167336377613