"SVU" plot said to resemble Casey's plight

[Dale Latimer]

This coming Wednesday's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on NBC brings back two well-known actors, Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives) and the one-time Man from U.N.C.L.E., Robert Vaughn... he plays a celebrated novelist, she his sixth wife, who(m) several of his daughters from previous marriages accuse of sexually abusing him.

E! Online, f'rinstance...

dL

[BrettVW]

Did anyone watch this? Wondering if it's worth finding it "on demand"

[Mike]

Feb 27, 2015 17:14:46 GMT -5 BrettVW said:

Did anyone watch this? Wondering if it's worth finding it "on demand"

I did; I've also been watching NBC Wednesdays this season.

It was definitely a "loose" adaptation of the family feud - there were the children fighting with the wife over his care and afterwards, though the only legal battle involving his body after his death involved an autopsy (burial wasn't incorporated).

Not mimicking real life: A sexual angle involved with much of the legal battles, the wife being charged with his death, the novelist being sort of a controversial figure in ways related to his work. Possibly also the daughters squabbling with each other? (Not 100% on this last one...)

There was also a parallel happening throughout the episode, as the ADA who joined the show last season had a grandmother who was in frail condition, and a decision had to be made as to where she'd live - in a care facility, or in a 6th floor apartment with his mother. The decision would ultimately be moot, as the grandmother would die while they were in the process of gathering her things together to move her to the facility (thus, she was able to die "in her own home", in a manner of speaking). This might be more interesting for regular SVU viewers, as it's one of the few personal looks we've had at the ADA's life in his time on the show so far.

The episode is currently on NBC.com. Probably worth seeing once.

Oh, and Marcia Cross was definitely the right choice to play the wife in this one.