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Articles tagged with: Law & Order: SVU

Adventures In Random DVR-Pausing: Taking! It! Personally!
November 10, 2009 – 1:20 PM | 8 Comments
Adventures In Random DVR-Pausing: Taking! It! Personally!

In Hargitay's defense, I think the guy taking her hostage had just gotten shot by Vincent Spano; I'd make that face too.  On the other hand, she could have just read yet another script in …

Contest/Support Local Biz: Asirda, Greg Heffley, and PayPal
October 15, 2009 – 9:29 PM | 12 Comments
Contest/Support Local Biz: Asirda, Greg Heffley, and PayPal

I just said a mouthful!
An odd and an end first: 1) my review of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is up on Monkey See — great read, as usz (Kinney, not …

TV Question Qorner: Character by numbers
October 8, 2009 – 8:22 PM | 28 Comments
TV Question Qorner: Character by numbers

Law & Order: SVU. Really?  A cockroach?  Just going to rip Papillon and Brazil off, but without the insight?
Meloni's "the walls, they breeeeeeathe" acting choices looked a lot like the ones he made while humping …

TV Question Qorner: Smizenheimers
September 29, 2009 – 4:30 PM | 33 Comments
TV Question Qorner: Smizenheimers

America's Next Top Model. When did Mr. Jay become kind of rad? Or have I started identifying with my captors? Has Tyra herself become so unbearable to me that anyone who ever makes …