Ok let's start by saying I use to love this show. However this new season that has come out 2017/2018 is absolutely ridiculous. It has so many political views and bs left/right motivation in it that it has lost me as a viewer. I don't even live in America, I'm Australian, I enjoyed it for what it was. "Law" and "Order" I enjoyed seeing the crime and then the person hopefully being punished for it. Now though, well according to the last episode I watched. 2/2/18. It would appear it has gone all political. I understand keeping with the times but its a law and order show, none of that stuff needs to be in it. Show some sort of rape/abuse etc and then the investigation and court proceedings like you have been doing since 1999, why bring all this alt left, alt right bs into now??? Personally I recommend skip anything new from this show and just go back to the original episodes where it was about the crime and solving it, not trying to push an agenda into your minds that in reality no one really cares about.

Used to tune into law and order every now and then growing up. Tuning into the newer seasons has ceased secondary to the blatenetly obvious bash course it chooses to take in all conservative values whilst pushing leftist garbage. No thanks and no thanks.

I absolutely love this show and have been watching it on and off for the past 10 years. The chemistry between Stabler and Benson is done so well and the individual episodes are just great. Appears to be going downhill in the later seasons but it doesn't stop me from re-watching the early seasons over and over. So good.

SVU is the only Law and Order show I will watch. The characters are believable and the stories are intriguing. I know these are based off of true stories but I'm a firm believer that they need to be told. It actually should make more people aware of the dangers around them and what to do if it were to happen to them. You can definitely use the stories as an educational piece at the end of the day so, not only are they interesting to watch, they can be used to educate.