keep trying
Fans can't be fooled.
Tom Tripicco, The Eagle's deputy managing editor and longtime "Law & Order" fan, knows "SVU" must have a new writing team.
How can he tell? "It's cheesy and trite and predictable," he said this week. "What were they thinking? The show used to be clever and believable -- the twists were clever, and you never saw them coming. "
He and paginator Mike Leonard agreed, however, that at least the new "half-hour of law, half-hour of order" structure does add something to the NBC program. Tripicco said he was "slow to come around to it," but admitted it works now.
Perhaps, though, if the writers were to come up with better material, "SVU" wouldn't need a gimmicky new format.
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