Ranking Every Episode of . The dedicated critics who write about these shows are known as totally insane people (me) who love sensational television. These are their stories.

In honor of the 4. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit airing tonight, I’ve taken on the task of ranking of every single one. By now you’ve read Part 1 of the ranking. Now you’ve arrived at the top 2. New Yorker. When ranking each episode I took a few things into consideration: How original is the premise? How clever is the twist(s)? If the episode is based on a real- life incident, how well does the show comment on it?

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3. The ninth season of the police procedural/legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered September 25, 2007 and ended May 13, 2008 on NBC.

But most important: How much did the episode leave me crying / screaming at the TV / gasping in shock? Check out the ranking below, then tell us your favorite episodes in the comments.(Expect all the SPOILERS. This article also includes some graphic language relating to violence and sexual assault.)2. I honestly couldn’t care less what this episode is about. The best part happens a minute and a half in.

With a straight face Mariska Hargitay delivers the line, “Do you think there was a reason that the killer sodomized your husband with a banana?” It’s all downhill from there. One jealous actress sets up another to get raped on stage during a theater production that’s part Sleep No More, part Eyes Wide Shut. Adam Driver is the first suspect. When Rollins says “You may have been hiding behind a goat mask, but we know you raped her,” his defense is, “I was a donkey.”1. When Cabot drops a rape case, the victim tries to kill herself. Stabler tries to reconnect with his teenage son whose best friend gets killed by a drug dealer.

A student pretends to be a cop and helps capture a rapist, but when he’s discovered the arrest is thrown out. How did everyone in the squad room fail to notice a random kid in a uniform? This must be the 1. Benson’s been taken hostage, which seems a little ridiculous.

Part of me wishes the writers would stop throwing her into traumatic situations, but the other part is like, “Hell yes, gimme all your over- the- top suspenseful madness, SVU.”1. FR-EE Trash Fire Full Movie. Based on the Natalee Holloway disappearance, a teenager is found dead and sexually assaulted. When the cousin of one of the murderers testifies, he’s later kidnapped and murdered by both killers.

Maggie Siff’s court officer helps them dispose of the body. Benson gets in a car accident with Stabler’s pregnant wife! One of the earliest SVU episodes about incest (there are a lot), begins with the body of a pregnant girl, leading to the discovery that she and her boyfriend were half- siblings. Who doesn’t love a Huang- based episode?

2 Two teenagers go missing; one planned his kidnapping to get ransom money and the other is a young girl thought to be kidnapped and. Law & Order: SVU: Cancelled or Renewed for Season 19 on NBC?

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When a boy’s heroin addiction prevents him from testifying against a therapist who’s assaulting girls (James Frain), Dr. Huang risks his license to take the addict to a clinic for an illegal drug that will curse his addiction. A homicide detective (Nestor Serrano) is accused of rape by his wife. The investigation reveals they are both abusive to each other. Amanda Seyfried plays a student found duct taped and beaten in her dorm.

Her unreliable testimony leads to her rapist getting acquitted, but it inspires another one of his victims to come forward. The remains of a Romanian immigrant named Ava are dug up along with a collar and a leash. But the murdered woman Benson and Stabler are investigating turns out to be alive: Ava’s twin sister Irna was killed after an arranged marriage and Ava stole her identity, then tried to save a third sister sold to an immigrant matchmaking company.

In one of the weirdest interrogation scenes, Stabler tries to get a confession out of a pyrofeliac by taunting him with burning matches. Then Sharon Stone’s ADA Jo Marlow pretty much accuses Stabler of rape by sexually coercing the suspect. Hm, not so sure about that. Stabler playing it by the book, as always. Micha Barton plays one of the sex workers attacked by a minister (Lee Tergesen) who leaves Tarot cards on their bodies. Elizabeth Marvel guest stars as a doctor before playing DA Rita Calhoun in Season 1.

Emily Van Kamp confesses to killing her mother and assaulting her father (Cary Elwes), but it was her boyfriend who attacked them. When Stabler tries to arrest the boyfriend and he suddenly dies of heart failure, Stabler is investigated by IAB for manslaughter. An ex- con working as a professor is framed for murder by one of his students. Zoe Saldana plays the professor’s daughter who tries to save him before he kills the guy who framed him. Benson and Fin team up to track down a rapist who they discover at the last minute is a former convict impersonating a police officer. The daughter of a family of con artists accuses a man of raping her to get money out of a lawsuit.

When he gets sent to Rikers, the detectives find out he’s innocent. After he’s raped and murdered in jail, she’s tricked into a confession. A drug addict mother sells one of her unborn children to a baby broker (Bruce Altman). But when her baby is stillborn she does what anyone does when they’re looking for quick cash – steals another woman’s baby from a grocery store. A baby dies from a cocaine overdose. A group of mothers have been acting as drug mules, sneaking cans of baby formula with cocaine across the Mexican border.

Stabler goes undercover to catch the dirty cop behind the operation. Two teenagers go missing; one planned his kidnapping to get ransom money and the other is a young girl thought to be kidnapped and raped by an older man. The girl is actually 1. Turner’s Syndrome, which makes her appear younger than she is. SVU has had a lot of men set on fire with their genitals cut off (see “Babes” below). This guy had the honor of being the first.

Dan Lauria plays a Jerry Sandusky- inspired sports coach who has been secretly abusing young boys on his basketball team. One of the victims (Mehcad Brooks) comes forward and testifies. Watch Bridegroom Online Forbes more. Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Heavy D also show up.

A wife accuses her husband of abusing her daughter, then they detectives think it’s the stepfather, then the stepbrother, but in a signature SVU twist of you- met- the- perp- in- the- beginning, it was the mom. Stabler realizes he put the wrong rapist in prison when assaults with the same M. O. Wentworth Miller plays an NYPD detective who acts aggressively towards assault victims and beats up the wife of Ali’s rapist. Talk about unstable. A murder investigation about teenage boys who fight each other on camera with florescent light bulbs leads to a teenager girl in foster care accused of statutory rape. The woman is in her late 2.

Benson’s training officer (Khandi Alexander) is raped and the investigation seems to link to gambling debts from her husband, played by Isiah Whitlock Jr., who’s probably cameoed in more L& O episodes than any living actor. The assault was from drug deals she was aiming to expose. Munch and Fin are often off on the sidelines while Benson and Stabler take the lead, but here they get their own episode and their own chase of two serial rapists.

A little boy testifies against his abusive father (Rob Estes) for murdering the boy’s stepmother. That time Will Arnett played a travel agent who sends rich pedophiles to other countries to rape kids. Oh, then he records it and sells the videotapes back to them as souvenirs. Would you like to purchase one of your rapist vacations?’ (NBC)1. Sherilyn Fenn pretends to be raped by her ex- husband so her lover (Frank Grillo) will kill him. Then she frames her stepson (Jonathan Bennett) who she’s also sleeping with, then marries him so he won’t testify against her.

It happens! 1. 69. A 9- year- old girl accidentally accuses the wrong person of rape after surviving a car accident. Mary Stuart Masterson’s psychiatrist Hendrix (who Stabler keeps flirting with) uses the girl’s drawings to find the abuser and it ends up being a rugby player at her school. A pregnant woman’s dead body seems to link to a love triangle quarrel between a father (Stephen Collins) and a son (Matthew Davis).

Law & Order : Special Victim's Unit - Season 7 - Theme Song. The show debuted on September 2. Law & Order and follows the same opening style of its parent. SVU is currently the highest- rated series of the Law & Order franchise, and is one of NBC's top rated shows. The franchise also includes two other series dramas: the original Law & Order, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Technical information.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has been shot on film in the 1. HDTV). Since 2. 00.

Law & Order series have aired in 1. Recently USA Network began airing reruns going all the way back to . In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

The title theme for the UK terrestrial channel Five version is the instrumental version of the song . This change was dictated by the large credited cast (nine members as of 2. The photo in the opening credits for Dann Florek (from the beginning of the show) and Ice- T (starting with the second episode of season two) has only changed once since they first appeared on the show.

The photo for Mariska Hargitay has changed five times (Season one has one photo, seasons 2- 4and the first four episodes of season 5 have another, the rest of season 5 has a third, seasons 6- 8 have a fourth, and season 9 has a new picture). Christopher Meloni, Richard Belzer and B. D. Wong had new photos starting with the fifth episode of season five (coinciding with the debut of Diane Neal as Casey Novak). Neal had one photo for season five, a second for seasons six and seven, and a new photo for season eight and a new one for season nine.

Tamara Tunie, who first appeared in the opening credits in season seven, has a new photo for season eight and yet another for season nine. The photos for each cast member were updated for season 9 to coincide with the addition of Adam Beach to the cast. The current order of introduction in the opening credits is Meloni, Hargitay, Belzer, Ice- T, Mc. Manus, Wong, Tunie, and Florek.

Meloni, Hargitay, and Belzer have always been the first three, with Florek last, much as the district attorney has always been last on the original series. Prior to the September 1. Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

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The original shots can be seen in syndicated episodes and the DVD collections of the first two seasons. ET for the first nine episodes, from September 2. November 2. 9, 1. It was then shifted to Friday nights at 1. ET on January 7, 2.

Season 4 on May 1. SVU was placed in its current time slot for the Season 5 premiere on September 2. Tuesday nights at 1. ET and occasionally runs previous shows on Saturday nights at 1. The USA Network also runs previous episodes on weekday afternoons, generally in a block from 3 to 5 p. ET. The series will be vacating its Tuesday 1.

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