Paula Deen and Travon Martin to be protrayed in an Law and Order: SVU epsiode

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The Law & order franchise is known for rooting through headlines to find fuel for its upcoming episodes. We've seen high profile cases from Mel Gibson's drunk driving incident/anti-Semitic rant to Gov. Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal take form in Dick Wolf's gritty little world. But the NBC mainstay seems to be getting a little ambitious in its old age. Maybe the recent years have provided too many public controversies for law & Order to cover one by one, or maybe Det. John Munch has stepped behind the scenes as showrunner, instituting creative progress with some of his famed conspiracy theories inspiring the choices. But whatever the reason, SVU is doubling up on crimes for a forthcoming episode: EW reports that Season 15, which premieres in September, will feature a single episode that combines Paula Deen's highly publicized scandal with the events surrounding Trayvon Martin's killing. Something tells us this one was a late night in the writers room.

 

law & order: sVU executive producer Warren Leight explains the conflation of the controversial topics: "[Jeffrey] Tambor is a defense attorney representing a very high-profile celebrity woman chef [played by Cybill Shepherd] who thought she was being pursued by a rapist and turned around it was a teenager. And she shot him ... There's a lot of stop and frisk elements to that as well." So, add that into the mix.

 

Perhaps it is by necessity that Law & Order is weaving together the cases of Deen and Martin. Although Deen's story might have chucked in the celebrity chef's previous allegations of sexual harrasshment, SVU might have had to forgo inclusion of the Trayvon Martin for lack of any sexual component to the young man's story. Still, you have to wonder why, exactly, producers didn't opt to fictionalize elements about each case independently, rather than gluing them together via a fabricated plot device. And then you have to wonder if they'll continue on this path.

 

 

 

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They should do an episode about producing a mediocre cop show for people that don't have cable or are afraid of possibly seeing a tit or hearing the word "fuck".

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They should do an episode about producing a mediocre cop show for people that don't have cable or are afraid of possibly seeing a tit or hearing the word "fuck".

 

Maybe have a minor fringe character with little or no connection to the crime at the beginning of the episode, spend the next 45 minutes after a prime suspect only to find  the minor character at the beginning was the culprit all along.

 

And do the same thing week after week.

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Maybe have a minor fringe character with little or no connection to the crime at the beginning of the episode, spend the next 45 minutes after a prime suspect only to find  the minor character at the beginning was the culprit all along.

 

And do the same thing week after week.