Originally called Sex Crimes, executive producer Dick Wolf wisely opted for something less lurid when the second in the inexhaustible Law & Order franchise hit the air in 1999. Still, as the opening voiceover makes clear, the “sexually based offenses” investigated by New York’s Special Victims Unit can be “especially heinous.” Wolf penned series premier […]
Archives for September 2019
Boogie Nights
In 1977, Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg)is a high school dropout who lives with his parents (Joanna Gleason, Lawrence Hudd) in Torrance, California. He works at a Los Angeles nightclub as a bus boy where he is discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who auditions him by watching him having sex with Rollergirl (Heather […]
Antwone Fisher
Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke) is a temperamental young man with a violent past who is serving in the U.S. Navy. His father was killed before he was born and his teenage mother, Eva Mae Fisher (Viola Davis), was arrested and put in jail where she gave birth to him. Antwone was placed in an orphanage […]