It’s been a Law & Order summer. Accepting cable offerings over the past couple of months has meant a strange and different kind of downtime: using non-occupation time at odd hours to catch up on several years’ worth of episodes of all three Dick Wolf productions – Law & Order marathons and mini-marathons, Special Victims Unit marathons, Vincent d’Onofrio marathons. Those last sort of resemble the last half hour of (Hitchcock’s) Psycho infused with Columbo and converted into television, but they’re still fun.

In fact on the whole it’s been an interesting experience. Of the three, SVU generally has the ...   more »