I enjoy and respect L&O SVU but this episode was easily the most infuriating I have seen; enough so that, for the first time, I walked away in disgust. The final trial scene, where a public prosecutor starts attacking her own witness, sounded like the writers gave vent to their loathing of Fox news and decided to subject the viewers to their soap-box rant. The resulting fracas where thugs attack each other in a court of law added to the farce. With the previous episode involving a biker gang managing to remove white blood cells and actually manipulating DNA was ridiculous enough, watching this makes me think the series has replaced its integrity for the pleasure of broadcasting its own prejudices. I am not suggesting that I don't share the concerns expressed on the show regarding broadcasters who show no responsibility for their rants, but it should not do so at the expense of the story. I would have thought the likes of O'Reilly, Beck an Limbaugh would be easy enough to denigrate without descending into overblown histrionics. The MO of the murders also defied any sense of reality and makes me question what motivated the writers to resort to it. I am especially disturbed by this episode as it was my girlfriend who introduced the show to me here in China; freedom of speech is something I hold dearly, and having to live in a country that shows absolute contempt for the values I cherish makes me angry when the regime is given another excuse to justify its suppression of free speech and information. www.tracesofevil.blogspot.com
