14.11 "Beautiful Frame" synopsis

[chestnayalyubov]

NBC Universal Media Village

01/09/2013 9:00 PM

BEAUTIFUL FRAME (TV-14)THE SVU SQUAD IS CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE WHEN A MURDER CASE IS TRIED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN TWO COURTROOMS WITH DIFFERENT DEFENDANTS. JANE KACZMAREK GUEST STARS

Comments

[laurel_hardy]

This show seems ever more firmly committed to being a soap opera with crime/law elements as background rather than a procedural set in the gritty streets of Manhattan. There are some things I like about it (Rollins mostly), but I miss the Law & Order franchise.

[chestnayalyubov]

I honestly thought that Warren Leight coming aboard would take it back to being more of a police procedural than a soap opera. After all, he was coming from Criminal Intent. But he's just taken SVU further away from the original plot.

I still try to watch each new SVU episode, but I am not engaged so I don't pay attention as closely as I used to. For me, it's more of a tradition and not because I look forward to seeing a new episode.

[laurel_hardy]

I have to think that they all, Dick Wolf included, feel they have drunk that well dry. It hasn't been on as long as the mothership, but that one I think managed to keep itself fresher with more frequent cast changes, along with a core few to anchor the whole thing. On SVU virtually everyone is core and has been there since God was a boy. So I think they're morphing it into a different show rather than kill the cash cow. It's just that I don't have that great a taste for soap opera.

[huntkitty]

the show is going to get better when they bring alex back.

[laurel_hardy]

It would be nice, especially if she was actually involved in stuff instead pretty much standing there looking pretty. She'd look just as pretty if not more were she there like she was way back when.