Maybe that's because he got to be Ice-T's partner, which would be awesome.

This season's Torture Porn was sickening, and it was upsetting to see the show support a cop-conspiracy to cover up shocking police brutality (even if Olivia was a victim, and her actions were understandable).

Isn't he?

Donal Logue is going to be on SVU?!! Whoo-hoo! Someone alert SmackyTheFrog.

That plot sounded so similar to the Blair Underwood episode that I had to make sure that I hadn't confused Underwood for Collins.

No, they cast another white girl and an Hispanic male to lead the show if/when Hargitay leaves.

I do enjoy the very occasional "Logan's love-life" episodes on L&O Original Recipe. Mostly because I like to think it's an alternate-universe Sex & The City.

The best part of that ep was when *GASP* he decides TO DEFEND HIMSELF!!! I've never seen that on this show! And of course he does a good job, because it's so easy!!!

He's fine, but the lines they give him are absurd. And I wish the writers would get a handle on courtroom procedure or portray him as a moron, because for an ADA from Harvard, his procedural motions are really awful.

I've never managed to finish that episode. IIRC, she looks pregnant during that season (either recently given birth or actually pregnant), and I'm so upset that they're doing that to her character and to the actress that I can't watch it.

D'onofrio nailed the character, though. No criticism on him (except for maybe in the later seasons, when there was no scenery left unchewed. I think at that point, he needed to escape the show).

The old eps of the original (even the ones before Briscoe) have this gritty, dangerous-New York City feeling that breathes life into the series. Characters like Logan and Stone seemed to accept that they were fighting a losing battle, but showed up anyway because they used to believe in something.

It was a show with a good idea that was executed better by series like Sherlock, House, and now True Detective.

Well, there was that mind-boggling dream-sequence where she imagines sleeping with him (right? Or getting attacked by him? I was watching the show and I dimly remember that sequence coming on—then I threw something at my TV, everything went black, and I woke up feeling like the show had raped my soul).

No! And this season makes it WORSE. There were about 4-5 episodes devoted to her attack. Or maybe more, I lost count. I am mystified as to why this reviewer thinks this season is a resurgence when more than half the eps so far have been devoted to a lurid kidnapping/rape story where Olivia actually describes how…

I don't even think it's miscast as much as badly-written. His character doesn't fit with the empathetic tone that the show and the SVU detectives had struck in the past. He's very business-like, which works on original L&O, but not on the more complicated world of SVU.

Remember the episode where Kathy Griffin kissed both Meloni and Hargitay? Truly disturbing.

The one thing that has been good about this season is that it realistically shows that SVU detectives should not stay with their departments for more than 3-5 years (as is borne out in reality, apparently). It's easy to get burnt out. Olivia's character is completely insane and dangerous at this point.

I get the feeling that when they don't have enough material from one script, they just cannibalize other scripts to pad out the episode.

I still enjoy old SVU, but this new version is appallingly bad. I'm kind of surprised by this review. The new characters are okay, though not particularly compelling (Law & Order has never been about the detectives' personal lives—that was the original spin on the series—and changing it up so that every episode is…