Saturday, January 7, 2012

Adam Wright's 5 'Law & Order: SVU' Guest Stars Who Should Return

I tweeted TV Done Wright's own Adam Wright my list of 10 guest stars who should return to Law & Order: SVU... who would have thought 5 more wonderful/notable guest stars come up?! Adam thought about some people I thought no more about:
  • Robin Williams
  • Role: Merritt Rooke
  • Episode: "Authority"
Most people are shaky when it comes down to episodes between seasons 8-12 of Law & Order: SVU. You either watched them for the Benson/Stabler drama, you're a diehard fan, or the guest stars. Well for SVU's 200th episode, it had all 3! Robin Williams's Merritt Rooke calls a resturant, lying to the manager about how one of his employees had stolen items on her person and let's just say it all goes downhill from there (sheeps, miscarrages, explosions). Merritt Rooke is the one who litterally got away. Be nice to see Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Fin (Ice-T), and the new detectives (Danny Pino, Kelli Giddish) bust Rooke and Novak (Diane Neal) prosecute him.
  • Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
  • Role: Darius Parker
  • Episodes: "Venom" and "Screwed"
Darius Parker, also known as the thorn in Fin's side. Personally I hated the episode "Screwed" because it was filled with too much family drama between Benson, Stabler, and Tutuola. But that is the main storyline I wanted to see; Darius Parker killed a woman and her baby and walked (and almost let Fin's son Ken - Ernest Waddell - go down for it), because he learned of his own origin; the product of incest and rape as it was told by Fin's ex, Theresa (Lisa Gay Hamilton) on the stand, who is Darius's mother. Ludacris did awesome in these two episodes as Darius, although Fin (Ice-T) has said he won't think about Darius again. Wonder what Darius is doing now?
  • Matthew Settle
  • Role: Jackson Zane
  • Episode: "Storm"
Jackson Zane, the news reporter looking for a scoop we all hate, unless he's doing more good than harm, which in the end is what Zane did. After a case of kidnapped kids from Louisiana is uncovered turns out another case is covered, the travel of anthrax from a lab in Louisiana to New York City (which the Feds are trying to keep covered). Liv risks her job to alert the public on this deadly anthrax, but she needs a little help from Zane. The feds are on alert when they hear that the news of the anthrax was being leaked, while Olivia was giving Zane a taped confession, he tells Olivia to get away and hide when the Feds come in to collect Zane. Zane is in prison until he names names, said name being Olivia's. The guy's been in jail seven years now; if he hasn't been killed or committed suicide. I actually feel bad for Zane, doing the right thing and he's in jail.
  • Marlee Matlin
  • Role: Amy Solway
  • Episodes: "Painless" and "Parts"
We see the beautiful yet hearing-impaired Marlee Matlin portray a hearing-impaired embryologist who pushes a raped girl to suicide. I don't know why I liked the episode "Painless" more, because of Matlin's mostly silent and yet powerful performances or we finally see more emotion from the stoic Detective Munch (Richard Belzer). But Solway and Munch weren't done yet! She returns in the battle over a kidney transplant, Munch risking her career and even life to give it to her.
  • Adam Beach
  • Starring Role: Detective Chester Lake
  • Episodes: "Outsider", "Screwed", starred in the 9th season only.
Detective Chester Lake, Fin's partner throughout season 9 and at times Liv's - someone who leaves fans with mixed feelings, I find Detective Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) a better partner to Fin than Lake - the SVU squad (which always seems to have a black eye over it) was under watch this season because of the events of season 8 (Stabler's daughter Kathleen's DUI, Liv's brother Simon, Fin's killer step-son Daruis) Casey Novak (Diane Neal) began to get sloppy and took too many risks in prosecuting perps. Lake gets personally invested in a case where he puts everything on the line and loses it after he shot a guilty man after he was found not guilty in court. We see Lake hauled off to prison, it's been 3 years going on 4, is it time for Lake's parole hearing? These L&O defense attorney's always have something up their sleve!

I'd love to see Darius, Soleway, and Rooke come back! But Darius and Rooke need to be convicted!

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