Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast
346 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago -Munch My Benson, the seminal SVU podcast, is the twisted spawn of co-hosts Adam Schwitters and Josh Duggan, celebrating the splendid and often wildly inappropriate lunacy found only on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Each week The Randomizer spits out a new episode, and they dive deep into the heinous murk before rating it in terms of overall quality, guest star performances, the degree to which the episode was problematic (the more, the better), and the depth and breadth of lives ruined (more=better). So come along for a wild ride through the uproarious darkness of the Dickwolfiverse.
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218 - They Don't Whip Out That Stamp for No One (S12E7 Trophy)
July 01, 2024 13:58 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBThis Season 12er takers us on a wild ride from unionizing dry cleaners, to piss-wielding nurses who just need an early-morning quickie, to militant environmentalists, and finally to the first installment of the Calvin Arliss saga which might have spared us all from the horrors of Baby Boy Doe, but for the fact of a clearly non-legally binding guardianship document. So many wild things happen in this one before it devolves into a weird template for later SVU character development. Sources: C...
217 - Always Be Brewing (S2E17 Folly)
June 24, 2024 17:38 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBThis week's installment really takes the Munchie Boys on a wild ride, starting with a working boy stumble-crashing a wedding in his boxers, dipping its toes in the water with Finnish furniture design and Altoona-style pizza, and finishing with a perp stroking Elliot's hand asking if he's going to protect them. Along the way, we take a voyage through high-end gigolo culture, the world of political donors and ambassadorial appointments, and one of the most extreme instances of folie à deux imag...
216 - She's Just Kim Novak-ing Bailee Madison (S12E1 Locum)
June 17, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 76 MBWhen an overprotective mom has a second daughter disappear, only to be accused of smothering the second daughter and murdering the first, you know SVU is going to be involved. This one features an aggressively weepy Joan Cusack and some seriously sassy kid work from Bailee Madison. Watch as the entire world gaslights this mom into insanity while she's right about what happened all along. Oh, Liv also turns down a date for no good reason. Music: Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business" Thanks to ...
215 - God, I Miss Neal Baer (S23E6 The Five Hundredth Episode)
June 10, 2024 15:19 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBCold Case comes in with a cold case, and Olivia's ancient history comes screaming into this week's big-round-numbered installment of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The old friends who join us this week are a welcome sight. Olivia's personal relationship with an older man alluded to in prior episodes, however, was much less welcome, as everyone around her tells her what she needs to hear while she bafflingly ignores their advice and is a real jerk to an old partner in the process. Music: ...
214 - They Only Serve Beef Grogan-off (S11E15 Confidential)
June 03, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBThe Randomizer finally gifted the Munchies with a Season 11 Stablersode, and in classic fashion, our beloved, bechiseled-butt-cheeks boy takes an already convoluted mess of a case, and thoroughly Fs it in the B. Here we see a karate-loving ponzi schemer get off on rubbing out his accountants whenever the market takes a downturn, before passing the episode's baton to his attorney who might have protected her client's confidentiality but certainly did not protect his person. Sources: U.S. Sup...
213 - He's a Senile Train Perv (S14E8 Lessons Learned)
May 27, 2024 13:20 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBSVU takes on the tony world of upper-crust prep schools, which would often be quite the turn-off for the Munchie Boys, but an episode that could otherwise have fallen into any number of traps is buoyed by fantastic performances from some heavy hitters. The gloves come off and whoever had it in for prep schools in the Season 14 writers room lucked out and got Charles Grodin, Elliott Gould, Anthony Rapp, and Buck Henry to come in and knock it out of the park in a story focused on an institution...
212 - The Load Distance King Of Lancashire (S21E1 I'm Going To Make You A Star)
May 20, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBWhen the Randomizer chose an SVU featuring one of the Munchie Boys' all-time favorite actors (Ian McShane) as the Harvey-Weinstein-esque heel in Warren Leight's triumphant return to showrunnerdom, we were understandably excited. While McShane shines, certain choices by said showrunner leave the boys baffled and wishing for what might (should?) have been. Music: Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business" Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Amy Z, Nikki B, Diana R, Tony B...
211 - Oh, He Wants to Plumb Her Depths (S23E14 Video Killed the Radio Star)
May 14, 2024 03:29 - 1 hour - 76 MBA shock jock cut from the same cloth as any number of high-profile sexual predators (be they Hollywood execs, former Presidents, or unassuming television hosts) enters the world of SVU, and everyone loses their minds. Or at least forgets how things like logic, character motivations, or professional storytelling would dictate where the episode should go. With plot holes as gaping as the Grand Canyon, this exasperating journey into the world of the undercover triple-crossing faux private eye cr...
210 - Watch the Voltage Babe (S7E2 Design)
May 06, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 96.6 MBAfter nearly four months, the Randomizer finally rolled a Neal Baer-era SVU for us to watch, and despite a slow beginning, "Design" really delivers the wild stuff we love. This episode was supposed to star disgraced former President Donald J Trump as a hot piece of genetic material who's disrupting the mortuary sciences industry. Instead it features a laundry list of famous faces with strange backstories. What kind of madness allows the Munchie Boys to say "electroejaculation" 21 times in a s...
210 - Watch the Voltage, Babe (S7E2 Design)
May 06, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 96.6 MBAfter nearly four months, the Randomizer finally rolled a Neal Baer-era SVU for us to watch, and despite a slow beginning, "Design" really delivers the wild stuff we love. This episode was supposed to star disgraced former President Donald J Trump as a hot piece of genetic material who's disrupting the mortuary sciences industry. Instead it features a laundry list of famous faces with strange backstories. What kind of madness allows the Munchie Boys to say "electroejaculation" 21 times in a s...
209 - You Don't Skip off the Curb Because You're Going to Get Meet Joe Blacked (S23E17 Once Upon A Time In El Barrio)
April 29, 2024 08:36 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBRealizing they had added an actor to the main cast but given him very little to do in the intervening episodes, vics tangentially related to Velasco via his parish priest back home bring Juárez screaming into this week's installment of SVU. Heavy on Mexico but light on events occurring with a semblance of storytelling logic, this episode bounces back and forth pretty dramatically between what could be called good and bad. Hold onto your cellphones and don't look both ways before you cross the...
208 - Trial Chief Ghislaine Maxwell (S24E4 The Steps We Cannot Take)
April 22, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBA DIY renovation leads to a kidnapped daughter which leads to yet another case referencing the Ariel Castro and Josef Fritzl kidnapping cases. This one introduces us to notorious welder, Elias Olsen, who we at Munch My Benson first met in his final appearance in "Bad Things" (S24E21). Can Grace Muncy's colorblindness and Fin's Eric Adams impression save us from Graziano fatigue?Music:Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Amy Z, Nikki...
Firstborn with Chad Byrnes, film critic at The Village Voice/LA Weekly - Main Event
April 19, 2024 18:20 - 1 hour - 108 MB***We wanted you to check out our new podcast, Unkind Rewind, so we've dropped the newest pair of episodes into the feed. They are a real blast. We have another couple cycles of movies that we've done which are just as awesome--Labyrinth with Kay from F**k My Work Life and Night of the Creeps with one of Josh's industry buddies from L.A., Leon Henderson Jr.--so there's more Unkind Rewind out there to take in immediately if you're digging what you hear. We won't be dropping new eps in the Munc...
Qs and Tease with Chad Byrnes, film critic from The Village Voice and LA Weekly
April 19, 2024 18:15 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB***We wanted you to check out our new podcast, Unkind Rewind, so here's the newest pair of episodes, which are a real blast. We have another couple cycles of movies we've done--Labyrinth with Kay from F**k My Work Life and Night of the Creeps with one of Josh's industry buddies from L.A., Leon Henderson Jr.--so there's more Unkind Rewind out there to take in immediately if you're digging what you hear. We won't be dropping new eps in the Munch My Benson public feed every week, so if you like ...
207 - I've Known Five Boys Who Went JonBenet (S1E21 Nocturne)
April 15, 2024 09:23 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBGetting kicked back into the Pre-History of SVU could have been jarring for the Munchie Boys, but Nocturne had them speculating that it might have served as a blueprint of sorts for the Neal Baer years that episode.lol seems dead-set against ever letting them revisit. Despite not having guest stars who Adam or Josh knew, this episode really ticked all the boxes, landing a tragic story of long-term abuse begetting another cycle of abuse. We were also thrown into a somewhat lengthy discussion o...
206 - That's Not Egg Foo Young on Your Tongue (S24E22 All Pain Is One Malady)
April 08, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBSaddle up as we discuss the fourth part of a five-part mega-crossover event between Laws & Orders Organized Crime and SVU. This week, we wonder if part-time adjunct professorship confers magical powers, while Josh becomes CBS-show curious. We also see Chief McGrath turn the flummoxed dial up to 11, and we see the last time SVU is graced with the presence of Detective Muncy as she's poochied off to the DEA, or DAs office, or something. Sources: Muncy and Velasco's Deleted Goodbye Scene - via...
205 - It's Not as Dark as the Licorice Hole (S24E21 Bad Things)
April 01, 2024 23:50 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBThe Randomizer (episode.lol--use it!) decided that we didn't have enough on our plate already and gave us a FIVE-PART ORGANIZED CRIME CROSSOVER EVENT to unpack, starting with the second of the five installments (and first of the SVUs), S24E21 Bad Things. Often these unwieldy offerings aren't particularly fun, but despite the fact that a dark story arc keeps getting darker and darker, there's a lot of fun to be had throughout this sprawling ep of SVU. We also talk about the first part, which h...
204 - I Can’t Breathe Because of the Patchouli Stench (S14E23 Brief Interlude)
March 25, 2024 18:18 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBThe discovery of a raped and battered woman in a rowboat next to the Mayor's mansion leads SVU on a wild adventure through the strange and spicy world of world music festival groupies. We meet bawdy bouzouki players, peek behind the curtains of a legendary Midtown motor lodge, contemplate the economics of the Canadian podcast ecosystem, and learn, conclusively, that Warren Leight's New York is no place for prairie provincers. Music: Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business" Thanks to our gracious...
203 - We've Seen Kid Rapists (S22E1 Guardians and Gladiators)
March 18, 2024 19:34 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBThe first episode back from lockdown and the tumultuous summer of 2020 has our SVUs grappling with their own existence. Can they reckon with the role they've played in the realm of copaganda? Can they talk about systemic racism without doing the racism themselves? Can they figure out how to wear masks in the throes of the pandemic? These are questions that the Munchie Boys are forced to answer in this navel-gazing episode of SVU. Music: Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business" Thanks to o...
202 - The Mouthfeel Is Creamy (S22E9 Return Of The Prodigal Son)
March 11, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBThe grand return of Elliot Stabler (and family) to SVU would probably hit harder if we were watching these eps in order one at a time. That, however, is not how we do things at Munch My Benson. Instead, we are treated to an investigation that is way, WAY outside the Special Victims Unit's purview, and which won't pay off in an episode of SVU (if it ever does). Still, it's fun to see how Dickie Stabler has grown up and to indulge in the wildest fan service fantasies that were surely swirling w...
201 - He's Gonna Be Gone Well Past November (S18E6 Broken Rhymes)
March 04, 2024 20:20 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBIf there's one thing that SVU does consistently, it's dealing with trans issues indelicately, and this week's installment--the first under Rick Eid's guidance--is no exception. Season 18's Broken Rhymes has the unit dealing with trans bathroom usage in a way that isn't even remotely close to the law being discussed. Of course, this one also sets our trans victim--who is on life support by the cold open and not given much in the way of agency or depth--against the world of hip-hop, bringing in...
200 - Tearful iPad Reunion (S14E6 Friending Emily)
February 27, 2024 00:44 - 1 hour - 85.2 MB***Munchies' Choice*** For our 200th episode, the Munchies let the sword of Damo-Kim drop. That's right folks, this week we watched the episode that introduced the most dysfunctional sibling in the entire SVU universe, Kim Rollins. We are also treated to a "never let your teen daughters go to New York" A-plot, which postulates that there are hordes of child pornographers hanging out in hotel lobbies across the city, ready to pounce on unsuspecting teens who are sick of museums. This was much...
199 - It's Like a Human Centipede Ouroboros (S1E2 A Single Life)
February 20, 2024 05:22 - 1 hour - 89 MBAfter three straight episodes spent in Season 24, the Munchie Boys get weird with the prehistoric SECOND EPISODE of Law & Order: Sex Crimes--er, Special Victims Unit. Adhering to the old TV trope that the second episode is basically a second pass at a pilot, this one hits a lot of the same beats that we saw all the way back in Episode 1. Just like the rest of the first season, the salacious and disgusting is cranked up, the darkness is unavoidable, and the Stabler family is prominently featur...
198 - Dr. Tim, Medicine Wanker (S24E12 Blood Out)
February 12, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBWe're back with the third and final installment of the Season 24 BX9/Oscar Papa epic which began with Benson nearly getting hacked to death on the street outside her apartment. This time we get a lovely little diversion in the form of a Fin and Terry Bruno side quest in the Bronx. Before SVU can finally turn the screws on super criminal Oscar Papa, we witness the shocking end of a recurring character, and we end with a famous case of fan service blue balls. Sources: HOSTAGE DRAMA IN MOSCOW:...
Econofoods! - Interview with Johnny Pemberton
February 05, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBWe interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you a very special installment of Munch My Benson.Johnny Pemberton was kind enough to spend far too much of his time with Adam and Josh, discussing his life, career, one-man show, and guest appearance on the Season 23 episode of SVU “One More Tale Of Two Victims” which we talked about back in MMB 184 - He’s Never Going to Get the Cum Blankie Back. He also talks a bit about his upcoming roles in the highly anticipated Amazon Prime seri...
197 - It's Like She's Getting Pumped for Her WWE Fight (S24E11 Soldier Up)
January 29, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBStill in Three-Parter Land, the Munchie Boys tackle the middle chapter of the BX9 saga that sends our intrepid SVUs north to the Bronx, where they have to continue fixing Bronx SVU while Liv chases down the gang that took a run at her with machetes last week. This means Liv has to trust Captain Mike Duarte (a tall order for her), and this means that Duarte has to trust that Liv can relearn how to police without getting waylaid by tunnel vision, the thing that led to this situation in the firs...
196 - Is the Breathalyzer Broken Cause Liv Seems Drunk? (S24E10 Jumped In)
January 22, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBIn the first episode of a sweeping, mega, three-parter, Benson and Noah are nearly hacked to death by a crew of gangsters with a deep grudge. This sparks SVU to head north to the Bronx, meet some new and old friends, attempt to fix a massive NYPD screwup, and solve the rapes of 6, or maybe 12, young deaf girls. Get comfortable because we are going to be in this case for a while. Music: Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business" Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Amy Z,...
195 - He Was Killed by Assassins, Ninja Assassins (S3E16 Popular)
January 15, 2024 18:51 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBIf this week's installment is any indication, being a kid actor on Law & Order: SVU in the early days was not for the faint of heart. They'll either have you playing a scumbag turning out your girlfriend for whichever old reason, or they'll have you raping your best friend's girl who isn't into you but who he instructed to bone you anyway despite the fact that you can't stand him, or they'll have you get turned out, get gonorrhea, have your parents find out you've become ensnared in a beej-fo...
194 - Pandora's Box Has Been Opened And Kokomo Has Been Unleashed (S9E4 Savant)
January 08, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBThis week, we meet an Irish-American father-of-daughters who is even angrier than our own, beloved, Stabler. However, instead of 'swinging from a pole,' said daughter is possessed of superhuman hearing and a charming inability to be "normal" due to her Williams Syndrome. Thankfully, our super daughter is able to help the SVUs get to the bottom of just how many dudes were in mom's bedroom the night she was attacked, and exactly which noises they were loudly producing. Sources: What is Willia...
194 - Pandora's Box Has Been Opened and Kokomo Has Been Unleashed (S9E4 Savant)
January 08, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBThis week, we meet an Irish-American father-of-daughters who is even angrier than our own, beloved, Stabler. However, instead of 'swinging from a pole,' said daughter is possessed of superhuman hearing and a charming inability to be "normal" due to her Williams Syndrome. Thankfully, our super daughter is able to help the SVUs get to the bottom of just how many dudes were in mom's bedroom the night she was attacked, and exactly which noises they were loudly producing. Sources: What is Willia...
193 - She Really Wants to Get Back to the Pretty Boy Perp with the Peen Prob that Elliot’s Probing (S8E19 Florida)
January 01, 2024 17:41 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBIn this week's episode "Florida," the Munchie Boys are dragged into the Simon Marsden Saga, leaving them wishing they'd been sent to Florida on a pointless side mission like Dean Porter was in this one. Alas, they're fully immersed in this Liv-servicing backstory, one which errs into some pretty painful narrative territory and squanders a golden opportunity to dive into what should be rich and interesting waters. There's a lot of next-level bad policework being done, and Olivia Benson channel...
192 - They’re Trying to Joe Camel the Sex Toy Market (S21E15 Swimming With The Sharks)
December 25, 2023 12:10 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBThings get spicy when Benson, Rollins, and Tamin go to a convention hosted by a hot women's wellness brand and leave with more than just a treasure trove of impossible vibrildos and yoni eggs. Adam's middle school trumpet rival leads an ensemble cast that some how adds up to less than the sum of its parts in this "bad boss is raped by worse employees in a ludicrous scheme to kick her out of the business" caper. Sources: Think Twice Before Putting a Yoni Egg in Your Vagina - Cleveland Clinic...
191 - I Mean We Want His Joint to Have Been on Fire (S2E1 Wrong Is Right)
December 18, 2023 14:43 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBThe first installment of the Neal Baer era is a doozy, pitting our intrepid SVUs against the defense-industrial complex. In a momentary distraction from family time, which became all too common during his time on the Unit, Elliot Stabler is pulled away from his family--in this case Maureen, a daughter who follows instructions POORLY--for a case in which he literally cannot help but become embroiled. Sure, jurisdiction and the vic's very speculative status as a special victim as it burned to a...
190 - You Can Say 'Slunt' on Network Television? (S15E12 Jersey Breakdown)
December 11, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBWhen we think about what SVU is "about," things like advocating for victims of sexual abuse or normalizing coming forward about abuse or copaganda generally come to mind. This episode, however, is about something entirely different. It postulates that the entire state of New Jersey is irredeemably corrupt and downright evil. From the seagulling scumbags of the cold open to the heights of political and judicial power, the Garden State would appear to have no good side. Did onerous bridge tolls...
189 - Oh, No, He Hand-Shaves His Meat All the Time (S17E11 Townhouse Incident)
December 04, 2023 11:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBSit back, and try to imagine an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit where Olivia Benson, be she Detective or Sergeant or Lieutenant or Captain, finds herself held captive in a hostage situation. Go ahead. Any scenario that could land her in the middle of a standoff with just her wits (and SWAT standing by) to get her out of the situation. Now, in that hypothetical situation you concocted in your head, things happened to get her there, right? Well, "Townhouse Incident" presupposes a ...
188 - Stabler's Id Cries On Fin's Shoulder (S9E8 Fight)
November 27, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBA high-period Neal Baer episode which careens wildly from squabbling cub scouts to open-relationship-having MMA legends to racist frat houses and finally to Riker's Island prison gangs educated by one of the absolute legends of alt-country with a healthy dose of our favorite single season star, Chester Lake, thrown in. This SVU goes places none of us could have expected, including having one of the most recognizable guest actors in the episode die in the most disrespectful way possible after ...
188 - Stabler's Id Cries on Fin's Shoulder (S9E8 Fight)
November 27, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBA high-period Neal Baer episode which careens wildly from squabbling cub scouts to open-relationship-having MMA legends to racist frat houses and finally to Riker's Island prison gangs educated by one of the absolute legends of alt-country with a healthy dose of our favorite single season star, Chester Lake, thrown in. This SVU goes places none of us could have expected, including having one of the most recognizable guest actors in the episode die in the most disrespectful way possible after ...
187 - Like, We're Asking If It's Racist Against Midwesterners (S20E7 Caretaker)
November 20, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBResponding to a grisly crime scene, the Unit are called upon to investigate the murders of a father, daughter, and son, who were stabbed a bunch of times while they slept in their Upper West Side brownstone. As the case unfolds, a team of SVUs who've literally seen every horrible thing known to humankind, act shocked that a mother could murder her whole damn family to protect them from descending into the middle class. Along the way, the Munchie Boys encounter characters who've been establis...
186 - We Saw Edward James's Olmos (S8E12 Outsider)
November 13, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBA series of seemingly unconnected rapes forces Fin Tutuola to join forces with a man who never sleeps. A man who knows the precise tenor and pitch of every recycling center's lunch whistle in the city limits. A man who walks. A man named Chester Lake. We also meet our first perpetrator who staffed the Obama White House, and one of the vics totally isn’t Amanda Rollins—she just looks like her, right? Music: Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business" Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jerem...
185 - We're the Most Disgusting Second Unit in Television (S15E19 Downloaded Child)
November 06, 2023 19:27 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBIn Season 15, the SVU writers room decided to revisit the subject matter of the Season 12 All-Timer "Possessed," wondering what it would be like without a Bud the Ninja Pedo gleefully pawing at pics of younger incarnations of their vics or other pedos defending themselves at trial by using the "of course my ejack was all over this pornographic physical media" defense. The result here is harrowing. And, like, obviously, it probably should be. Yeah, it should be. But when it's played this strai...
184 - He's Never Going to Get the Cum Blankie Back (S23E4 One More Tale Of Two Victims)
October 30, 2023 10:50 - 1 hour - 78 MBIt's Velasco's first official day on the unit, which means that Fin, Rollins, and Benson will all be adjusting to almost having a reasonable number of investigators. Of course, it also means that Chief McGrath now has eyes inside the unit. While season-long arcs are all well and good, we Munchers are after the good stuff, which in this episode means pondering the physics of rooftop coitus and digging deep into the unintentional racism in which certain iterations of this show sometimes traffic...
184 - He's Never Going To Get The Cum Blanky Back (S23E4 One More Tale Of Two Victims)
October 30, 2023 10:50 - 1 hour - 78 MBIt's Velasco's first official day on the unit, which means that Fin, Rollins, and Benson will all be adjusting to almost having a reasonable number of investigators. Of course, it also means that Chief McGrath now has eyes inside the unit. While season-long arcs are all well and good, we Munchers are after the good stuff, which in this episode means pondering the physics of rooftop coitus and digging deep into the unintentional racism in which certain iterations of this show sometimes traffic...
183 - It Doesn't Tickle My Twasn't (S6E23 Goliath)
October 23, 2023 11:40 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBNYPD officers who've been serving in Afghanistan are getting pretty violent, domestically, and the Unit has to race against a *gasp* journalist to get to the bottom of what's going on in this week's Ripped from the Headlines edition of SVU. The Army are very bad, doctors are huge cowards, and journalists may or may not be bottom feeders in this screed where no cows are sacred and no army wife is safe. And before you entertain the conciliatory notion that at least no actors were harmed in the ...
182 - Suburban Hate Snow (S18E5 Rape Interrupted)
October 16, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBWhen a Nassau County Cop's awful, investment banker son rapes a woman after a miserable Halloween party next to a pile of disgusting New York City trash bags, you know SVU is getting the call. What you might not expect is that this time, the goose is Benson's former partner, the budget did not account for Halloween, and that the budget also did not account for requiring a script. Along the way, Benson gives such a subtle, loving prison-rape-taunt that you might well miss it, unless your brain...
181 - I Think Dilbert's the Juiciest Role (S4E8 Waste)
October 09, 2023 12:09 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBIt wouldn't be a peak-era SVU episode if we weren't treated to an investigative red herring that eats up an entire act of television only to be discarded unceremoniously, forever forgotten and treated as though it never have happened. That misdirect usually isn't a NINE MINUTE NECROPHILIA KICK that plays as exploitative and shocking, leaving the audience's collective jaws on the floor, all while having the perp in question just brush up against the periphery of the Unit's case. It's a real sh...
180 - New York City Sidewalk Juice (S12E19 Bombshell)
October 02, 2023 10:40 - 1 hour - 77.2 MB***MUNCHIES' CHOICE*** When an older gentleman with a knife sticking out of his junk slumps against a Lexus belonging to the worst parker in Lower Manhattan, the unit embarks on an investigation which leads them into a delightfully well-run swingers club. Liv and Stabler go, possibly, a little too undercover and find themselves at the mercy of a legion of pawing hedonists. This being a Season Twelver, the plot careens wildly from red herring to red herring, but it's fun and saucy throughout....
179 - Carisi Chokes Out Another Pedo in the Meat Wagon (S14E13 Monster's Legacy)
September 25, 2023 11:20 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBSome very questionable stuntcasting forces the Munchie Boys to wrestle (box?) with Mike Tyson's checkered past while reluctantly acknowledging that he's actually pretty good in this SVU. He's no Andre Braugher--WHO IS ONCE AGAIN INCREDIBLE--but he was pretty effective. Ed Asner's really good at playing a real monster, too. Kind of burying the lede there though because Peter Scanavino pops up in "Monster's Legacy," and it's not as Domenick Carisi, so this ep is one helluva brainmelter. Source...
178 - Human Urinal Etiquette (S17E18 Unholiest Alliance)
September 18, 2023 09:10 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBAs we race towards the thrilling conclusion of this two-parter, we ponder important questions such as: did SVU throw the Catholic church under the bus in order to curry favor with the location-rich Episcopalians; and, would we watch a Mike Dodds-i-series? We also get to the (power?) bottom of the spicy, ripped-from-the-headlines drama that underpins our favorite interlude from this episode. Sources: 'Sex slave' NYC priest, 57, who was accused of spending $1million of church funds to pay for...
177 - This Is a Civil Servant Sex Party in All the Worst Ways (S17E17 Manhattan Transfer)
September 11, 2023 12:21 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBThe power brokers in New York Law Enforcement and the Catholic Church seem to be in cahoots as they end up in SVU's crosshairs. Why might these powerful men be under investigation? Oh, they just appear to be trafficking teen girls from St. Fabiola's to their closed-door sex parties featuring a slew of city employees who will gladly abuse their power to turn the tables and go after Tucker and the SVUs hot on their trail. By the end of the first part of this compelling two-parter, bodies have d...
176 - The Bonzo Birthday Bouquet Is Stuck In A Blowhole (S11E24 Shattered)
September 04, 2023 09:55 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBObviously, when you have one of the most decorated actresses in European film history acting across from a legendary American actress in the season 11 finale, you're going to expect an episode to remember. Well, the minds behind SVU might have forgotten to write or fully fund this episode. Seriously. Munchie's, however, will be treated to LOTS of tangents about Adam's travels, Friday Night Lights, and Heaven's Gate. Sources: The kingdom of women: the society where a man is never the boss - ...