Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - The Second Year

The second season of Law & Order: SVU differs from the first as not as much time is spent on the detective's families. Ice-T and Stephanie March debut in the first episode of the season as Det. Fin Tutuola and ADA Alex Cabot, respectively. Michelle Hurd leaves the show shortly into the season as her character quits after being relegated to desk duty since being accused of having sex with a suspect. The show really hit its stride in this season. Seemingly everyone is involved with every episode, as opposed to today where Fin and Richard Belzer's Det. Munch do very little. Late in the season, B.D. Wong debuts as psychiatrist Dr. Huang. His character is a bit darker (for lack of a better word) in earlier episodes. Overall, this is a great season for the show and I highly recommend this set.

The show got stuck in a rut throughout most of the second season. Most of the episodes seemed pretty contrived, and the storylines start to get predictable. The bright spots of course are anything involving Richard Belzer and Ice T - perhaps the biggest problem with this set is their lack of screen time.

One of tv's best crime dramas, the SVU tackles its second season with the expected excellence it so marvelously used in its premiere season. The regulars--Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Stephanie March, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, B.D. Wong, Ice T and Michelle Hurd---continue to be among the best ensembles out there, and this season they get crackerjack guest performances from such stars as Eric Roberts as a neighborhood crime watcher; Richard Thomas as a crazed killer; Chad Lowe is brilliant as a rapist/killer; and Margot Kidder in a smallish role is outstanding as Lowe's sick mother.
The characters continue to grow and the acting couldn't be better. A very good show!

This is my second attempt (via replacement order from amazon.com) to play back the "extras" on disk-3/side-2. Unfortunately, there was nothing but green lines streaking across and shreading the video (just like in the first set I received). What I found strange, was the fact that the Universal logo played back perfectly...hmmm!

This is, obviously, a bad batch coming from Universal. Sadly, I will, once again, have to return this set to Amazon. This time I'm going to ask for a refund.

For all you "techies" out there who think the problem is mine, please note the following: The disk was played back on a brand new PANASONIC DMR-ES25S DVD player/recorder, and SONY "Pro-line" DVD player. It was also tried on a MAC G-5. Nothing worked, and the same results were realized.

Until Universal gets their quality control act together, I'm going to have to pass on this one. Hopefully, Amazon.com will put out a notice about this problem (like they did with the second Beatles box set & its first release with incorrect mixes).

As for the rest of the set, it's great. However, why buy a box set if you can't enjoy ALL the extras? Sorry folks...but this gets only ONE star!

Buyer beware!!! It's not Amazon's fault - it's UNIVERSAL'S!!!

I am a big fan of Law and Order SVU. I have seasons 1,2 & 5. I would like to know where Seasons 3 and 4 are.