Might be the best season of SVU
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By Acey67
IMO, this is probably the best season of SVU. I would have to watch them all one after the other (an SVU marathon yay!) to be sure, but I think by far this is probably the best. The series has matured, as have the actors: as goes good wine, this series is getting better by aging. I mean, sure, the first seasons were awesome, very emotional too (who has not cried over 'Ghost' or 'Angels'?), and some of the episodes from SVU are probably on the top ten of the best things I have ever watched on TV (cue: 'Guilt', 'Ballerina'), but never has a season of SVU been this CONSTANTLY good.
Besides Michaela McManus who really did not fit into that show (where is the acting she had in 'One Tree Hill'?), all of the other actors were outstanding. Time has done justice to Stephanie March and Mariska Hargitay, and as the latest has nothing to prove to the TV world anymore, she only gets better. You can feel that now she is in for 'IT' and not anxious about reviews (and I guess her health problems gave her a new perspective). Even Chris Meloni, which has probably, I recognize it, the least easy role in this, for Elliot Stabler can be the worst of p***ks sometimes, has topped up last season's excellent acting by being even better.
And the guests! Now, baby, that's what I call guest-starring! I knew Carol Burnett was a great actress, but she was absolutely superb! And when you give her a good script and a decent director, Hillary Duff can actually be great at her job too, as we discovered in 'Selfish'...Noel Fisher did everything right to make us absolutely loathe his character by the time the season was done...
The directing and writing were great as well, sensitive cases being treated adequately and very well for some--issues with transgendered people have considerably evolved in how they are treated by TV, and SVU has contributed to that in these last seasons, IMO. And if 'SVU' doesn't get an Emmy or two, this year, then it's a totally unfair award...
In short, probably one of the best seasons on TV of a show, ever.
Just a thing: that musical chairs game with the ADAs is annoying the Hell out of me. Stephanie March was, and still is, the best fit for the role, and I don't understand how she could turn a role like that down, not when her film and TV acting career--let's be realistic--depends on it, or not how the producers could let her go, when she so obviously make audiences go up. SHE IS THE ADA. Nobody will ever fill those shoes--okay, maybe Diane Neal could, because she grew up to fill the shoes and the writing for her part got better along the way, but forget about Michaela McManus. She was horrendous.
This show has it all: it's gonna be a classic and stay down in history as one of the most impressive and influential shows of all time, if the acting and writing keep being this top-notch.
