| rdfs:comment
| - The show premiered on September 20, 1999 and as of 2017, it has aired 399 original episodes. It is the current longest running scripted non-animated U.S. primetime TV series since the cancellation of the original "Law & Order" in 2010 and is the fourth-longest running scripted U.S. primetime TV series on a major broadcast network.
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU, or SVU) is an American drama television series about the Special Victims Unit in the fictitious 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. The show debuted in 1999 as a spin-off of the crime drama Law & Order and follows the same opening style of its parent. The show shares several cast and crew members with The Wire.
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is a crime drama television series aired on NBC that premiered in September 1999. Created and produced by Dick Wolf, the series premiered on NBC on September 20, 1999, as the first spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama, Law & Order. As with the original Law & Order, episodes are often loosely based on real crimes that have received media attention or as the franchise calls it "ripped from the headlines". As of now, Special Victims Unit is the last surviving show in the American Law & Order franchise.
- Im Jahr 1999 startete der erste Ableger von Law & Order unter dem Titel Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (häufig auch mit SVU abgekürzt). Die Serie beschäftigt sich im Gegensatz zur Originalserie nicht mit jedem Verbrechen, sondern zeigt die Arbeit einer Sondereinheit für Sexualverbrechen und Verbrechen an Kindern. Für eine Liste mit allen Episoden, siehe Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Episoden
- The first spin-off of the Law and Order franchise. Like the original, the show features detectives investigating crimes and attorneys prosecuting the offenders. Changes in scene are marked by black screens stating the place and date, as well as the franchise's trademark "chung chung" noise. However, SVU focuses more on the detectives and less on the attorneys, whereas the original show usually shifts from the investigation to the prosecution at the halfway point. Character Sheet can be found here. Not to be confused with the Special Vehicles Unit.
|
| abstract
| - Im Jahr 1999 startete der erste Ableger von Law & Order unter dem Titel Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (häufig auch mit SVU abgekürzt). Die Serie beschäftigt sich im Gegensatz zur Originalserie nicht mit jedem Verbrechen, sondern zeigt die Arbeit einer Sondereinheit für Sexualverbrechen und Verbrechen an Kindern. Die Serie läuft in Deutschland unter zwei verschiedenen Titeln: Law & Order: New York auf RTL 2 - was aufgrund der Tatsache, dass sowohl die Originalserie als auch Criminal Intent in New York spielen, etwas sinnfrei ist - und unter dem amerikanischen Titel (jedoch mit anderem Logo und Vorspann) auf VOX. Ab der 13. Staffel wird jedoch auch hier der originale Vorspann und Titel verwendet. Für eine Liste mit allen Episoden, siehe Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Episoden
- The first spin-off of the Law and Order franchise. Like the original, the show features detectives investigating crimes and attorneys prosecuting the offenders. Changes in scene are marked by black screens stating the place and date, as well as the franchise's trademark "chung chung" noise. However, SVU focuses more on the detectives and less on the attorneys, whereas the original show usually shifts from the investigation to the prosecution at the halfway point. The SVU detectives investigate sex crimes, usually rapes, rape-homicides, and various forms of child abuse. The voiceover at the beginning identifies such crimes as "especially heinous," and the show often focuses on the characters' struggle to deal with unspeakable crimes and living victims. SVU has included since its beginning characters from two other shows: Capt. Cragen from the original Law and Order and Det./Sgt. Munch from Homicide. There have been numerous Crossover events with the other Law and Order shows. SVU was retooled between the first and second seasons. The first season featured more of the characters' private lives, random courtroom scenes unrelated to the episodes' primary cases, and much brighter lit squadroom scenes. Also, there were several recurring Assistant DA's instead of a regular character serving that function. Some early episodes did not feature a trial portion at all. At the start of the second season, ADA Cabot was assigned to the unit and the show began to more closely resemble the original Law and Order series. The show is known for its dual-action It's Personal / Idiot Ball trope, in which each episode will usually feature one of the main detectives developing an extremely personal, unprofessional attachment or aversion to a victim or criminal, due to their personal history. This may sometimes cause them to follow false leads, or fall under suspicion and need to clear their name. These will manifest themselves in just about any episode that deals with crimes of a certain nature. Characters with "hot-button" issues are:
* Benson: rape and alcoholism (Benson is a child of rape or so her mother told her, and her mother was an alcoholic)
* Stabler: pedophilia, incest (due to the many male offender-young female victim cases he has worked; it doesn't help that he has kids), and now mental illness
* Tutuola: drug abuse, race (especially how some victims are treated compared to others)
* Munch: suicide, big government, infringement of civil liberties, assisted suicide, child abuse (this may be a case of actor on board)
* Cragen: alcoholism (since he is a recovering alcoholic and card-carrying member of AA)
* Huang: pseudo-psychology (it insults his intelligence) and, as of "Hardwired", gay-bashing, especially since he's a gay man himself both in-universe and in real-life.
* Warner: unethical medical practices
* Rollins: Rape and sexual assault since it happened to her, possibly by a superior. Now expanded to include gambling, though so far she's handling her problems quite sensibly.
* Amaro: Cheating and deception, since he suspected his ex-military wife of cheating on him with an army buddy. Bit him in the rear when at least one of her "dates" was with a shrink. This trope works backwards too; we learn more about the detectives by noticing what kinds of people they empathize with. When the usually cool attorney Casey Novak is uncharacteristically lenient to a young girl who committed vehicular manslaughter while off prescription medicine (thanks to following the advice of a popular artist who was against them, after his own tragic story), you later find out that, quite predictably, she has a personal history with mental illness - her ex-fiancé (who she abandoned and later found in the streets) suffered from schizophrenia. Detective (later Sergeant) John Munch is a crossover character who started out in the (originally unconnected) show Homicide: Life On the Street. Also, Captain Cragen appeared in the early seasons of Law and Order. Sesame Street did a spot-on parody with muppets called Law and Order: Special Letters Unit. The primary audience probably don't watch the original. (Or at least we hope not) Character Sheet can be found here. Not to be confused with the Special Vehicles Unit.
- The show premiered on September 20, 1999 and as of 2017, it has aired 399 original episodes. It is the current longest running scripted non-animated U.S. primetime TV series since the cancellation of the original "Law & Order" in 2010 and is the fourth-longest running scripted U.S. primetime TV series on a major broadcast network.
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU, or SVU) is an American drama television series about the Special Victims Unit in the fictitious 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. The show debuted in 1999 as a spin-off of the crime drama Law & Order and follows the same opening style of its parent. The show shares several cast and crew members with The Wire.
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is a crime drama television series aired on NBC that premiered in September 1999. Created and produced by Dick Wolf, the series premiered on NBC on September 20, 1999, as the first spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama, Law & Order. The Special Victims Unit is located in the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department and focuses on victims of sexual crimes, such as rape, pedophilia and domestic abuse, as well as cases involving children, the handicapped and elderly victims of non-sexual crimes who require specialist handling from the unit. Its stories also touch on the political and societal issues associated with gender identity, sexual preferences, and equality rights. As with the original Law & Order, episodes are often loosely based on real crimes that have received media attention or as the franchise calls it "ripped from the headlines". As of now, Special Victims Unit is the last surviving show in the American Law & Order franchise. For a list of episodes, see Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)