No Redeeming Value
This essay was originally published in A Writers Life.
I am a big LAW AND ORDER: SVU fan. I have been for years. It's consistently one of the best plotted and acted cop shows on TV. I have used episodes of the show as examples in my TV writing classes here and abroad.
That said, I thought this week's episode ("Confession") was repugnant, pointless, and vile.
It demonstrated what a joke network standards & practices have become. The censorship at the networks has nothing to do with content and everything to do with the ratings of the show and the power of the showrunner. No new show, or one with weaker ratings, or one helmed by a b-list showrunner, would ever have been allowed to produce, much less broadcast, this episode.
Dick Wolf shouldn't have been, either.







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