I just started watching Season 11 of SVU. I think I'm caught up to this point. Often this show surprises me with the depth of its content. It is a procedural so it has its filler episodes, but for the most part it leaves me thinking about something. Rather than a particular episode (I'm up to Episode 3), I am completely perplexed by this new ADA, played by Christine Lahti. Is it a joke? Are they spoofing their own show? Granted, the previous ADA was too pretty and not all that good of an actor, but you just go with it for the story lines and the main characters. But right now I'm totally confused. Lahti's ADA Sonya Paxton has been on the show for three episodes now and has picked a bunch of fights with Detective Stabler, acts like it is a show all about her and at the same time like her character is mentally ill or bipolar or something. It's bizarre. She shows up at crime scenes and just starts to insult detectives/policemen, etc who are doing their job... When she first came on I did a double-take to make sure I hadn't switched over to Saturday Night Live somehow. I know it's not the most current season but I don't think I will make it there if she's here for the long run.
Also... How many times can Stabler lose his temper and assault whoever is closest to him?!? In any real world job he'd have been fired many times already! I actually like his character but in all these years he hasn't been able to control his temper or been forced to??
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