Best Munch Casts Podcasts (2024)

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235 - A Helicopter Parent of the Most Self-Defeating Order (S3E22 Competence) 1:10:19

1h ago1:10:19

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In an unprecedented turn in the annals of Munch My Benson history, this installment of SVU from Season 3 is simultaneously the standard bearer for representation of a marginalized and underrepresented subset of our population in entertainment and one of the starkest examples of why it's always best to choose an actor who's a representative of that …

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234 - A Well-Oiled Underground Bartender Rape Railroad (S24E17 Lime Chaser) 1:11:24

8d ago1:11:24

1:11:24

Things aren't going well for Churlish, Velasco, and Muncy this week as their bitter arguments over Churlish's white-foods-only habit reaches a boiling point. This week, we meet Muncy's brother Teddy, who is also Stabler's brother, who is also Kat's real-life husband. He leads us down the rabbit hole into a world of macho, MMA-training bartenders wh…

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233 - Nips Out and a Necktie (S20E9 Mea Culpa) 1:06:44

18d ago1:06:44

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This week, ADA Peter Stone's fast and loose lifestyle during his younger days when he was still a baseball player comes screaming into the world of our SVUs. What happens when a main cast member is the lead suspect in the case the SVUs are investigating? Well, that largely depends on the showrunner and the according professionalism with which they …

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232 - She Banged Carlos Baldarama After a Long Day at the Office (S4E14 Mercy) 1:08:33

16d ago1:08:33

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The discovery of a dead baby found in a cooler floating on the Hudson inspires SVU to JD Vance levels of state aggression towards pregnant people. They cast aspersions at every customer of a beloved uptown health food store then wantonly ruin the lives of every family member of every Hudson U student they can find. Sadly, after a fast-paced first a…

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231 - Fashion Equals Bad (S1E3 ...Or Just Look Like One) 1:27:10

23d ago1:27:10

1:27:10

When the dedicated detectives of Season 1 SVU wander into the world of fashion, you can't help but assume the worst is coming. And it is. Fashion is scary, children, and it's especially scary if you're a minor, as our vics find out. There's a ton of peripheral weirdness in this ep, and we discover yet another TV show that's in the larger SVUniverse…

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230 - Ace Ventura Level Transphobia (S4E21 Fallacy) 1:16:24

1M ago1:16:24

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I know all there is to know about the SVU. I've had my share of the SVU. First there's a body, then there are slurs. And then, before you know where you are, you're saying Dick Wolf. Once again, we meet a trans character who is placed in the middle of a brutal scene, and the usual ham-fisted SVU shenanigans ensue. Buckle up, kids! Sources: Dee Farm…

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229 - It's More of a Stain in Heaven (S3E23 Silence) 1:33:08

1M ago1:33:08

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This one gets all up in the confessional, culminating in a no-holds-barred Catholic-off between Stabler and Father Michael Sweeney (Eric Stoltz--or is it Stolitz?). Red herrings and misdirects abound, and since we're watching an episode of SVU dealing with the Catholic Church, you can assume that some priest were taking some liberties with parishio…

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228 - He Has His Mitts in More than Just the Drawers Drawers (S8E16 Philadelphia) 1:08:09

2M ago1:08:09

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If watching beloved characters make terrible choices thereby endangering the careers and lives of basically everyone they come in contact with is your cup of tea, then this week's SVU starts hot and keeps on delivering. In it, we see Detective Olivia Benson blunder from one bad decision to another in a bizarre attempt to share a few giggles with a …

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227 - No Good Has Ever Come from Snapping with a Chase (S20E20 The Good Girl) 1:14:22

2M ago1:14:22

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A teen girl in a domestic disturbance call ends up being pregnant and unwilling to divulge much information about who provided the batter for the bun in her oven. While fighting off the urge to vomit, the Munchie Boys dive into the disgusting reality of what stepkid smut would have you believe is titillating but ABSOLUTELY is not. They also take up…

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97 - I Don't Like the Idea of Having Ninja Pedophiles Out There, That Scares Me (S12E12 Possessed) 1:17:14

2M ago1:17:14

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In conjuction with this week's interview with Michelangelo Milano, who plays Patrick Binder, Larissa/Brandy's boyfriend in this episode, we are dropping this classic episode back into the feed. Make sure to listen to Michelangelo's interview which dropped today, and check out his podcast, The Return Slot... Of Horror (YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spoti…

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Interview with Michelangelo Milano 1:30:02

2M ago1:30:02

1:30:02

We were fortunate enough to have been graced by the presence of Michelangelo Milano this week, who dedicated listeners will know as Patrick Binder, the boyfriend of Taryn Manning's character, Larissa in Season 12, Episode 12 "Possessed." Not only does he appear in one of just TWO EPISODES OF SVU TO RECEIVE A PERFECT 10.0 FROM US, but he plays a hug…

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226 - Inferno The Musical (S2E12 Secrets) 1:17:42

2M ago1:17:42

1:17:42

We all remember that great teacher from high school who would go the extra mile for all of their students. This episode of SVU presupposes that said exemplary educator is most likely a gang-bang-addicted sex-club enthusiast on the side. This wild ride takes us from the heights of the pre-2.0 internet to the depths of "Dante's Inferno" and to every …

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225 - Soda (S12E11 Pop) 1:07:29

3M ago1:07:29

1:07:29

Stepdads can really be jerks, right? This episode of SVU definitely agrees with you. Your stepdad might be a one-of-a-kind A-hole, but I'm guessing he didn't get you into an underground fight club run by the white cabbie cabal where their adolescent children or charges throw down instead of them. This being Season 12, the episode careens all over t…

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224 - We Know Whether JD Vance Shaves (or Not) in His Grindr Profile (S25E12 Marauder) 1:02:37

3M ago1:02:37

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In our first brush with Season 25 of SVU, we are immediately thrown into a deep backstory flashback featuring a character hitherto unknown to Munch My Benson. If that wasn't jarring enough, a certain hit single from the seminal '90s album Pocket Full Of Kryptonite features heavily in said flashback, which obviously means the Munchie Boys have A LOT…

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223 - Why Don't They Have Someone Sexily Peel off a CPAP? (S24E15 King Of The Moon) 1:17:17

3M ago1:17:17

1:17:17

There are strange episodes of the longest running primetime drama in television history, but none come close to matching what is happening in this week's entry. To say that the last four minutes of this episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is unlike any moment in any other installment in the show's 25-plus years of existence would be a grot…

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222 - Speaking Of Stereotypes (S17E13 Forty-One Witnesses) 1:20:07

3M ago1:20:07

1:20:07

The rape of a woman just outside her apartment building frays the social fabric of New York when so many of her neighbors saw something happen but none of them took action to help or even notify the police. This being a Season 17 SVU one can't help but notice the racism bubbling very close to the surface in the portrayal of the three bad teens who …

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221 - Can Credits Just Roll in Very Slo-Mo? (S20E2 Man Down) 1:04:10

4M ago1:04:10

1:04:10

Picking up where we left off in MMB 219, we had a SUPER bad dad who was just found not guilty of ummm, SAing his son to show him what a real man is. The Munchie Boys were left to wonder what fresh hell awaited them upon returning to this foul ground in a second part that seemed unnecessary, and this one did not disappoint in terms of exceeding thei…

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220 - Carmy's Cum To Jesus Moment (S11E21 Torch) 1:15:31

4M ago1:15:31

1:15:31

For our 220th episode, the Munchies voted and selected a wild Season 11 SVU which sees the unit inexplicably called to investigate an arson leading them first to suspect streaming TV's It Boy, Jeremy Allen White, who is sporting the most disgusting zit makeup ever imagined, before the investigation shifts to a grief-stricken dad. This one marks the…

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219 - His Pecs Were Unleashed (S20E1 Man Up) 1:07:06

4M ago1:07:06

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There are bad dads, and then there's the dad played by Dylan Walsh in the first half of a two-parter to kick of Season 20. Hold onto your--wait, are we still doing phrasing? Ummm, be prepared, yeah, be prepared for some gnarly stuff in this installment of SVU. Also, be ready to watch seasoned detectives on this unit have no idea how to investigate …

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MMB Movie Club 00 - The Heartbreak Kid 1:11:54

4M ago1:11:54

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Who loves ya, baby? That's right, the Munchie Boys do. This month we did an entire bonus Movie Club entry for all of our audience, not just the Munchies on Patreon who get one of these a month. And we didn't do just any old movie. We did the anti-rom-com that might just have been the origin of cringe comedy, Elaine May's 1972 masterpiece The Heartb…

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218 - They Don't Whip Out That Stamp for No One (S12E7 Trophy) 1:28:46

4M ago1:28:46

1:28:46

This 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 guard…

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217 - Always Be Brewing (S2E17 Folly) 1:27:13

5M ago1:27:13

1:27:13

This 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 throug…

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216 - She's Just Kim Novak-ing Bailee Madison (S12E1 Locum) 1:23:03

5M ago1:23:03

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When 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 sh…

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215 - God, I Miss Neal Baer (S23E6 The Five Hundredth Episode) 1:26:23

5M ago1:26:23

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Cold 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 …

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214 - They Only Serve Beef Grogan-off (S11E15 Confidential) 1:23:51

5M ago1:23:51

1:23:51

The 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 …

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213 - He's a Senile Train Perv (S14E8 Lessons Learned) 1:24:48

5M ago1:24:48

1:24:48

SVU 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 o…

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212 - The Load Distance King Of Lancashire (S21E1 I'm Going To Make You A Star) 1:15:41

6M ago1:15:41

1:15:41

When 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…

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211 - Oh, He Wants to Plumb Her Depths (S23E14 Video Killed the Radio Star) 1:23:02

6M ago1:23:02

1:23:02

A 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 shoul…

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210 - Watch the Voltage, Babe (S7E2 Design) 1:45:28

6M ago1:45:28

1:45:28

After 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 feature…

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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) 1:10:36

6M ago1:10:36

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Realizing 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 ba…

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208 - Trial Chief Ghislaine Maxwell (S24E4 The Steps We Cannot Take) 1:02:05

7M ago1:02:05

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A 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…

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Firstborn with Chad Byrnes, film critic at The Village Voice/LA Weekly - Main Event 1:58:17

7M ago1:58:17

1:58:17

***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 Hend…

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Qs and Tease with Chad Byrnes, film critic from The Village Voice and LA Weekly 21:09

7M ago21:09

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***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 …

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207 - I've Known Five Boys Who Went JonBenet (S1E21 Nocturne) 1:30:29

7M ago1:30:29

1:30:29

Getting 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 …

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206 - That's Not Egg Foo Young on Your Tongue (S24E22 All Pain Is One Malady) 1:25:33

7M ago1:25:33

1:25:33

Saddle 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 pr…

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205 - It's Not as Dark as the Licorice Hole (S24E21 Bad Things) 1:28:50

7M ago1:28:50

1:28:50

The 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 …

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204 - I Can’t Breathe Because of the Patchouli Stench (S14E23 Brief Interlude) 1:26:38

8M ago1:26:38

1:26:38

The 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, …

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203 - We've Seen Kid Rapists (S22E1 Guardians and Gladiators) 1:12:33

8M ago1:12:33

1:12:33

The 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 questi…

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202 - The Mouthfeel Is Creamy (S22E9 Return Of The Prodigal Son) 1:16:17

8M ago1:16:17

1:16:17

The 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…

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201 - He's Gonna Be Gone Well Past November (S18E6 Broken Rhymes) 1:17:42

8M ago1:17:42

1:17:42

If 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 ou…

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200 - Tearful iPad Reunion (S14E6 Friending Emily) 1:33:06

9M ago1:33:06

1:33:06

***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…

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199 - It's Like a Human Centipede Ouroboros (S1E2 A Single Life) 1:37:13

9M ago1:37:13

1:37:13

After 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 …

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198 - Dr. Tim, Medicine Wanker (S24E12 Blood Out) 1:22:02

9M ago1:22:02

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We'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,…

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Econofoods! - Interview with Johnny Pemberton 1:13:22

9M ago1:13:22

1:13:22

We 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 …

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197 - It's Like She's Getting Pumped for Her WWE Fight (S24E11 Soldier Up) 1:05:26

9M ago1:05:26

1:05:26

Still 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 tha…

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196 - Is the Breathalyzer Broken Cause Liv Seems Drunk? (S24E10 Jumped In) 1:17:49

10M ago1:17:49

1:17:49

In 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 …

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195 - He Was Killed by Assassins, Ninja Assassins (S3E16 Popular) 1:12:00

10M ago1:12:00

1:12:00

If 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 t…

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194 - Pandora's Box Has Been Opened and Kokomo Has Been Unleashed (S9E4 Savant) 1:21:19

10M ago1:21:19

1:21:19

This 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 j…

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193 - She Really Wants to Get Back to the Pretty Boy Perp with the Peen Prob that Elliot’s Probing (S8E19 Florida) 1:31:05

10M ago1:31:05

1:31:05

In 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 op…

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192 - They’re Trying to Joe Camel the Sex Toy Market (S21E15 Swimming With The Sharks) 1:16:33

11M ago1:16:33

1:16:33

Things 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 employe…

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