I don’t usually watch this crap, which has dragged down the great Law & Order franchise to the most melodramatic of soap operas but someone alerted me they were going after Trump (again!) so I checked it out for amusement.
They’d already done an episode a while back in which an obvious Trump stand-in was brought down for rape by the champions of law, justice and the American way and I guess they were so excited by that one that they thought they’d do it again. (The show is all about what makes the writers and performers feel good, they’re not concerned about how the audience feel watching exactly the same show as a few weeks ago.)
This time they hire an actor who looks like Trump just to make sure the dummies who regularly watch this don’t miss the point. They then go through all the usual motions: powerful rich white guy, King of Wall St, takes what he wants ('grab ‘em by the pussy’), try to pay them off if they whine about it, victim tempted to go for the big bucks, Olivia talks her out of taking 24 million dollars and living like a queen for the rest of her life then watches proudly in court as the woman brings down the contemptible villain.
The only thing missing was a huge moustache that the evil rapist could twirl (“I’ll make sure you regret this, me proud beauty!”). They had to leave that out as Trump doesn’t have one but in spirit it was there and its ends were figuratively twirled at every opportunity.
There’s always a lot of fun to be had watching these liberal wet dreams. If you’ve been keeping a weather eye open you’ll have noticed a huge bunch of TV shows with this theme since the election (ie the downfall of a Trump substitute). The reason of course is obvious. They may not be able to beat him in an election but by God when it comes to their home ground the guy is toast!
For real. What is it about liberal politics that makes this show’s writers think it’s okay to have repetitive plots? It’s not like other shows ever do.
Stupid liberals! Just try to imagine if conservatives did the same thing–say, had movies in which tough manly men lived in crime-infested neighborhoods and had to get revenge against the godless criminals (maybe black men?) who hurt their families. Or in which tough manly men had to fight off Arab terrorists. Pshah–ridiculous! No, liberals have totally got a lock on the “wet dream entertainment” market.
Sorry, I’ve never watched that series. Is the OP referring to this episode?
Not being as obsessed with Trump as the OP appears to be, I haven’t noticed any such thing, but then I don’t think there’s much room on shows like Fast ‘n’ Loud and Dancing With the Stars for that sort of thing. Care to provide a few examples?
His behavior is disliked by liberals, conservatives, and just decent people in general. But keep propping up the nonsensical premise that an anti-trade, anti-market, anti- most things that have always made America great (if you believe in such things), all around antidecency guy is some conservative champion of American values. And only far-left, anti-man, anti-everything super extreme SJWs are the only people who have any problem with his complete lack of anything.
I don’t think so- the episode that aired yesterday is described as
which fits the description in the OP but is not as obviously-Trump inspired as the one that never aired, which apparently involved a politician whose campaign was affected when women made allegations against him
There’s already been an episode of The Good Fight (the spinoff series of The Good Wife) based around a shelved episode of a pastiche L&O: SVU about a pastiche Trump. It aired March 12th. Basically, the writer of the pastiche episode posted it on a pastiche YouTube, prompting the pastiche production company to sue for copyright infringement with a pastiche Dick Wolf testifying for the plaintiff.
Out of curiosity, why didn’t they do an episode like this about Obama assaulting someone? Sure, libtards probably think it’s because he didn’t go around bragging about sexually assaulting women, or just because there aren’t multiple independent credible reports by women about being sexually assaulted by Obama, but isn’t it really because Hollywood is run by a bunch of liberals?
The politics of SVU are many things, but they ain’t “liberal” or “feminist” - unless you think those terms mean “RAPE IS NOT OKAY” and nothing more. (I realize that rape not being okay is a controversial position among a small subset of Trump supporters, but I hope that doesn’t apply to many people on this board.)
As a leftish American and a feminist, I spit on SVU’s grave. (Well, I will when they eventually cancel it, if I live that long.)
Also: isn’t the L&O franchise’s shtick to “rip a case from the headlines,” then add a twist that makes it fictional (and thus introduce unexpected plotlines)? Like, doing an episode based on the Central Park jogger rape case where some white preppy goes on trial?
If you know the ending already, as in the FX OJ Simpson series, that’s a whole 'nother school of dramatization.
Obama’s a little difficult to pastiche, I gather, because he doesn’t have a lot of scandal associated with him. He smokes tobacco as an adult and smoked weed as a teenager… I think that’s about it, if you’re looking for things to be shocked - shocked! - about.
Bill Clinton, on the other hand, got the heck pastiched out of him in the film Primary Colors. I know some people have tried to claim Wag the Dog was also about Clinton but I personally think the similarities are just coincidental.
Having watched SVU last night (or more accurately, been in the room while my wife watched it), I can confirm that the OP is probably referring to last night’s episode, which was NOT the Gary Cole episode that never aired. The rapist in last night’s episode was played by Tate Donovan. I don’t think he looks much like Trump, but I suppose mileages may vary about that.
I didn’t find anything especially Trump-like about the story, apart from the villain being a rich guy. Rather, it was standard SVU rich-guys-get-away-with-shit-because-they’re-rich fare, with the usual helping of Olivia guilting the victim into testifying when she wants to back out because the rich guy is destroying her life by smearing her reputation the way that rich guys do with all of their richness.
As noted, SVU does at least one of these episodes per season.
So you’re saying that it’s just an episode about a rich amoral white guy rapist and the OP jumped to the conclusion that it was about Trump even though he’s apparently a Trump supporter and theoretically inclined to have a more favorable view of him? Interesting. Maybe if Trump wasn’t such an epic sleazebag, that jump would require more athleticism.
To be scrupulously fair, the OP was “alerted” to this piece of slander. Or libel. Whatever. Presumably over social media, or perhaps good old reliable word of mouth.
So less the OP jumping to a conclusion, more that he watched someone else do it and said “yep, that’s a conclusion.”
