Wednesday Night: SVU

My Wednesday night tv lineup is usually the strange combination of the hilarious and family-oriented Modern Family and the slightly gross and creepy Law and Order: SVU.  Unfortunately, Modern Family, like most of tv shows at this time, is a repeat and I cannot partake in that tonight because of the mountain of homework sitting next to me.

So now I get to wait until 10 to watch SVU.  Honestly, one of the main reasons I watch SVU is because the main character, Elliot Stabler (aka Christopher Meloni) is very attractive.  The only reason I even started watching the show was because my Dad has a huge crush on Mariska Hargitay, the lead female on the show.  The show is in its 13^th season and has gotten very repetitive in the storylines.  Worse than that, the storylines have become increasingly disturbing as the years pass.  Last week’s episode involved twins who were involved in a disgusting case of incest with each other and a couple weeks ago focused on an old man’s longings for small girls.  SVU stands for special victims unit, and the opening of the show says this “elite unit” was created to deal with sex crimes.  I’m the first to admit that they’ve become a bit repetitive with narrowing sex crimes down to just rape or abuse but the recent storylines seem too farfetched.  The episode with the twins not only included their incest but there was also a swinger’s club thrown in there with a case of relationship abuse.  It seems like the chances of all those things being linked to one case are close to impossible but on SVU that’s normally the case.  One of my favorite people on the show is the medical examiner Melinda Warner.  She fascinates me with all the cool tests she can run on a dead person’s body and how she can find out how a person died just by weighing their organs and their body temperature.  I also love the FBI psychologist George Huang who can diagnose any creep who is dragged into SVU.  These two are really the brains behind the whole SVU team and they are always the ones with the best scenes and the most interesting info.  Hopefully tonight’s episode will be worth watching because a character from the past, ADA (assistant defense attorney) Casey Novak is coming back and she was always entertaining to watch before she left.  But I’m definitely excited for next week when Modern Family finally has a new episode and I can get my mid-week laughs back.