Hey folks! It’s that time of year — the American Bar Association is rounding up the best legal blogs in America. The Prime-Time Crime Review has gotten a nod for the past two years — and I’d love to do it again! If you enjoy this blog, please go to the Blawg 100 Amici and let them know. It’s a quickie form. And getting nominated makes me feel better about the hours I spend blogging instead of doing my day job of writing novels.
SVU is back with its Season 14 premiere on Wednesday, September 26th. I’ll be here, nitpicking what they got right and wrong from my perspective as a former sex-crimes prosecutor. As you may recall, last season wrapped up with Captain Cragen waking up in bed with a dead hooker and some very ominous music. Come on by on the 27th, and let’s chat about how Cragen looks in a prison jumpsuit and whether it’s a good idea for Olivia to be the one interrogating her old boss.
Alenna says
7 September, 2012 at 8:19 pmHi Allison!
It’s great to see that you’ll be back for another year of SVU nagging and nitpicking. I’m sort of ambivalent about this new 14th year. Last year started with some fairly good realistic episodes, and then sort of sunk into a mire of victim-blaming and absurd situations. It was a sign that the writers were running out of ideas. It doesn’t bode well for a new year. Perhaps they will read your “How To Write Realistically About Crime” suggestions and go visit the NYPD for some stories. I guess we’ll see.
BTW, I look forward to your new book! 🙂 When is it going to be out?
Allison Leotta says
24 September, 2012 at 10:19 amThanks, Alenna! My second book, Discretion, is out now. My third is with the publisher, and will probably be out next summer.
I’m looking forward to this season, and wonder if this Cragen story line will go through several episodes.
James Pollock says
10 September, 2012 at 10:42 amI suspect that having the SVU team investigating Cragen is a good idea for the same reason that that the Enterprise always made landing parties consisting of the captain, first officer, chief medical officer, chief engineer, and either the navigator or the helmsman or both. (That is, the first law of television production: given a choice between hiring a new actor to play a small (but more realistic) role and using an actor already under contract, the producer’s choice is clear, and the writer works for the producer.)
Allison Leotta says
24 September, 2012 at 10:20 amTrue. At least Cragen isn’t wearing a red shirt, right?
http://www.amazon.com/Redshirts-Novel-Three-John-Scalzi/dp/0765316994/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348496408&sr=1-1&keywords=red+shirts+star+trek