[Law & Order: SVU in the Media]

On 6/7/2018 at 5:55 PM, CelticBlackCat said:

Sounds to me MH is due for a psych eval.  If she's crying when she goes home and can't function, there may be an underlying depression she should be dealing with.  She also exhibits symptoms of having delusions of grandeur.  She is taking her acting job a bit too seriously.

The other cast members and crew probably can't wait for her to have to do "one of her kid's things" so they can get rid of her and stop pretending she's their BFF and how much they love her!

I call BS. Great actors like Daniel Day Lewis are supposed to delve so deeply into their characters, they have trouble switching back to themselves. Their performances are testimony to their talent and dedication. MH claiming to "cry" etc etc is a load of horse poo. She is not at all believable in her role, she over-emotes and is so fake and phony. And despite the 24 hour days she is portrayed to pull as a dedicated cop, her makeup and hair are NEVER out of place. If she claims this is affecting her SO badly - it's only a sorry attempt to portray herself as a serious actress. Which, if she really was, there would be no need to keep bleating how she can't tell herself and Benson apart. Her acting should be able to do that, not her interviews.

[Law & Order: SVU in the Media]

2 hours ago, wonderwoman said:

would love to hear what the rest of the cast really thinks. say, after a couple of drinks and off the record -- no recording devices allowed...

I bet the "best actors" are silently wishing they could also act with a fine actress; not an over dramatic, fake whispering diva with the perpetual "I smell rotting fish" expression.

[Law & Order: SVU in the Media]

15 hours ago, ChristiKRN said:

"And I get to change my cast and work with the best actors. I’m so happy I can’t see straight." - Mariska Hargitay at the Paley Center event yesterday

This quote disturbed me so much... no wonder everyone professes their love of working with Mariska- they're afraid of losing their job!

That just sounds so arrogant. Unbelievable.

[S19.E21: Guardian]

32 minutes ago, TV Diva Queen said:

When Cutter was Executive ADA his, ADA was smoking hot.  I can't remember her damn name. 

I liked Alex too.  Jamie was a Bond Girl, you're not going to beat that.  Jamie was on Blue Bloods this season in a small role, (she didn't age fabulously, but I guess those original recipes are much older than I care to admit).  I really wanted her to be "Jamie Ross" on Blue Bloods, just like my fantasy it to see Jack McCoy just walking down the courtroom stairs when Erin is doing an interview or something.  Jeez, he's their DA too.  LOL  

Connie Rubaroza - the actress's name  is Alana De La Garza, I think. Yes she was very pretty.

Who's Erin?

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4 minutes ago, TV Diva Queen said:

I'd still do him......

hehe, and Cutter was a cutie too.

 I liked Annie Parisse - Alex Borgia (?) a lot. she was attractive, but not in a supermodel way like Jamie Ross or Abby, and could also act. I was crushed when they off-ed her, and so brutally at that. 

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17 minutes ago, TV Diva Queen said:

Right? and us ladies get to oogle Ben Stone, ,McCoy and Branch.  Cutter wasn't horrific... 

I had a crush on the younger McCoy. 

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On 5/22/2018 at 11:38 AM, TV Diva Queen said:

Or female....because, you know, she's a lesbian.  (I still can't believe she uttered those words) 

....and he brings pizza.  I heart Fin

hehehe, i burst out laughing when Serena said that in her last episode on L&O. She was a terrible actress and that line was so out there, just for shock value. What was Arthur Branch gonna do? Say "yes, I am firing you cos I am a raging hom**ophobe and you are gay?" - how stupid was that. Totally unnecessary.  She could have just been fired for incompetence, Why should ALL the ADAs look like super models AND also be super brilliant? No reason they could not have portrayed a plain Jane ADA who was super sharp for once in L&O.

[S19.E23: Remember Me & S19.E24: Remember Me Too]

3 hours ago, dttruman said:

I really wonder about this episode? I wonder if even the most devoted fans of MH or of the character Olivia Benson can defend the psychotic behavior of Benson now? Either the Executive producers and writers are taking an extremist's stand which IMO is detrimental to the plight of sexual assault victims that MH has chosen to champion personally.

Or are they preparing us for next season where Benson returns from a forced "so called Sabbatical" to iron out her issues (which just happens to be the summer months) and she miraculously comes back even tempered and objective. Maybe they will make it more realistic and Benson is reprimanded and reduced back down to Sgt Benson because of her reprehensible and unprofessional behavior she showed during the investigation. This also would benefit MH, because she would be back in the main focus of the investigation.

I wish she gets demoted and has to report to Fin and he kicks her sorry b**utt to shape. One can dream....

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What an absolutely stupid, godawful, unbelievable episode. Felt like a bad cross between a rotten soap and a moronic lifetime movie.  How does Benson just "feel" Lourdes is telling the truth? Why is she always the one to get stuck in a hostage situation while her squad is milling around ineffectually on the streets below like hotdog vendors? How many times did Cragen or Van Buren get caught in such dire situations? Did Lourdes take "acting" lessons from MH? Why does MH always have that "I just smelled p@@p" look on her face? Why did this episode (like so many others) have to begin and end with Benson? Was this episode a sign of a romance to come between Benson and Stone? So much more believable if Stone was attracted to Amanda. I wish this Law and Order travesty had never been renewed for another season. It's lost all credibility as a serious crime show and has become a  a mockery and an insult to the great original L&O brand. And who writes such drivel that passes for "dialogue" - "I had hope in my eyes", "I wake up shaking and panting", "In the dark , you can lose yourself".  Cheesy crap  from teenage romance paperbacks. Barf-o-rama.

And a bit of DACA/ Illegal/ dreamer buzzwords thrown in for good measure to appease the left leaning viewer base.

And...another Hargitay?? Like one is not enough...we need more from this overrated, no-talent gene pool to chew the scenery? Which one was Eddie Hargitay anyway?

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Benson squeezed all her over-the-top histrionics into those few mins she had in the Hospital with Tiana. The way she crouched with her face inches from that poor girl's face reminded me of Detective Goren in CI, how he would pull those mind games, hovering over the defendants when he interrogated them.  But that came naturally to Vincent D'Onofrio who portrayed the eccentric, highly intelligent, out of the box detective very well.

Stone seemed to have taken some acting (?) lessons from MH in his courtroom scene, with the tremulous voice,  glistening eyes etc. Sheesh, next these guys will break into an Aria. Long for the understated, realistic and gritty performances by Sam Waterston, Jerry Orbach, Epatha Merkerson, etc.

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Have recorded it, not yet watched it, but caught the very end, where Fin skype calls his cute little grandson. How nice to see an episode end with someone other than Benson reading to Noah or baby talking to him pulling one of her super mom phony facial expressions.

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12 hours ago, CelticBlackCat said:

Welcome Nisha!  You're among like-minded friends here.  We call it the Olivia Benson Hour and Lt Benson is Saint Benson and Saint Olivia.  Benoah is Mommy of The Year and her brat, and BenStone is the newest incarnation of Liv's love life, in that it looks like she's whipping Stone like she did Barba and many others who were left in her wake.

Thanks all for the nice welcome! I hope to God she and Stone are not an item. This is  getting ridiculous. The L and O original ADAs were stunning - Abby, Jamie Ross, Serena. Connie, but they didn't have every male within spitting distance falling all over them. Which would have been more palatable.

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1 hour ago, QueenMab said:

Welcome Nisha. Yeah, you're not alone. What you said. NYC where you can't swing a cat without hitting a beautiful, YOUNG woman. But Benson....beyond compare (ugh). FYI.....I have accused MH of rapidly morphing into Steven Seagal for a couple of years now. That's how I frequently refer to her. LOL.

Thanks. In fact I found this message board by googling "Mariska Hargitay over-rated" as I just could not believe how she keeps getting nominated Emmy after Emmy. I also always found SVU very melodramatic compared to the original L&O which just *hinted* at personal issues - Briscoe's drinking problem, Green's gambling addiction, McCoys's serial relationships with his Assts. But never right inside their houses and bedrooms like with Stabler or Benson. And after MH became exec producer, this show has just jumped the shark/ whale/ porpoise and then some.

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Sorry to hijack this thread with my very first post here, but I am really glad I found this msg board. I thought I was the only one who found MH's "acting" terrible and over the top, her whispers grating and unrealistic and the soap opera high histrionics, melodramatic drivel beyond bearable. I watched an old L&O episode the other night where Lt. Van Buren comes out of her office to tell her squad she's been diagnosed with cancer - so much dignity, class and stoicism. A true professional. None of the teary, whisper-y,  self pitying cloying drama that MH loves to peddle out. I also could not get why and how every handsome young man who passed by Benson wanted to hook up with her. She was attractive in her younger days, not any more. If they flocked to Amanda - it's believable, but not Benson. I read an article a couple of years ago, that MH talked to the writers about a relationship for Benson; so the orders for the never ending parade of admirers must be coming from the Prima Donna herself.