Because I never get sick of Law & Order

So SVU is now in reruns every night on USA. Splendid! I jumped onto the SVU wagon way after the fact, way after Mariska Hargitay had chopped off all of her hair and Ice-T had joined the force. So it's interesting to see the first season, and how much the show has changed for the better.

Even though I'm a woman, I have to say I continue to be baffled by the fact that, for the most part, guys don't dig L&O. I think the entire fanbase is women. And it's missing all of the elements one would assume make a "woman's" program, or that Lifetime assumes makes a woman's program. I think the creaters might have caught on to this before they launches SVU, because the early episodes feature a lot about the detectives lives outside of the precinct. We see Stabler at home with his daughters, or making whoopie with his wife. While I've always hungered for any little morsel about the detectives' real fictional lives, the whole thing bored me. I stopped caring. The importance of any one of those scenes could have been illustrated in one sentence spoken between Stabler and Benson, the way the show's namesake has done it fabulously for years. Thankfully, they pulled all of that crap.

The moral of the story is, when you have a formula that works, don't fuck with it. And when you have a detective that hot, no one cares about his wife.