Domesticity and Order:Special Victims Unit (Season 1)
So, recently finished watching/re-watching Law and Order:SVU's freshman season.
For those who don't recall, this is the spin-off that did away with the 'Law' part of the formula in exchange for a series of domestic interludes with Television's Most Boring Family. And was about the Sex Crimes unit, which is apparently called in on any case that's sex-related that isn't being handled by the main L&O cast.
Y'know, one of these days I'd like to see Law and Order:Internal Affairs. Or a non-franchise cop show with the same premise. A show where the 'rat squad' are the good guys, and bad/incompetent/corrupt/over-violent police are the baddies...
Anyhow, the DVD set, for some inexplicable reason, fails to include the second half of a crossover episode. This was, of course, a flaw in the Homicide DVD sets as well, but at least there there were different producers and studios involved. Here, they could have taken a few minutes to pull down one episode out of season 10 [which probably won't come out on DVD itself for another 5 years or so], but no...
Not the best of it's class, by any means. But it does have Richard Meltzer as Detective Munch. And that allows one to forgive a lot.
For those who don't recall, this is the spin-off that did away with the 'Law' part of the formula in exchange for a series of domestic interludes with Television's Most Boring Family. And was about the Sex Crimes unit, which is apparently called in on any case that's sex-related that isn't being handled by the main L&O cast.
Y'know, one of these days I'd like to see Law and Order:Internal Affairs. Or a non-franchise cop show with the same premise. A show where the 'rat squad' are the good guys, and bad/incompetent/corrupt/over-violent police are the baddies...
Anyhow, the DVD set, for some inexplicable reason, fails to include the second half of a crossover episode. This was, of course, a flaw in the Homicide DVD sets as well, but at least there there were different producers and studios involved. Here, they could have taken a few minutes to pull down one episode out of season 10 [which probably won't come out on DVD itself for another 5 years or so], but no...
Not the best of it's class, by any means. But it does have Richard Meltzer as Detective Munch. And that allows one to forgive a lot.
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