Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast

Stepdads can really be jerks, right? This episode of SVU  definitely agrees with you. Your stepdad might be a one-of-a-kind A-hole, but I'm guessing he didn't get you into an underground fight club run by the white cabbie cabal where their adolescent children or charges throw down instead of them. This being Season 12, the episode careens all over the place, but it ends up with Elliot case-blockin...

In our first brush with Season 25 of SVU , we are immediately thrown into a deep backstory flashback featuring a character hitherto unknown to Munch My Benson. If that wasn't jarring enough, a certain hit single from the seminal '90s album Pocket Full Of Kryptonite features heavily in said flashback, which obviously means the Munchie Boys have A LOT of reminiscing to do about Spin Doctors. In a sh...

There are strange episodes of the longest running primetime drama in television history, but none come close to matching what is happening in this week's entry. To say that the last four minutes of this episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit  is unlike any moment in any other installment in the show's 25-plus years of existence would be a grotesque understatement. Featuring guest star Br...

The rape of a woman just outside her apartment building frays the social fabric of New York when so many of her neighbors saw something happen but none of them took action to help or even notify the police. This being a Season 17 SVU one can't help but notice the racism bubbling very close to the surface in the portrayal of the three bad teens who assaulted her, and of the urbane lower manhattanit...

Picking up where we left off in MMB 219, we had a SUPER bad dad who was just found not guilty of ummm, SAing his son to show him what a real man is. The Munchie Boys were left to wonder what fresh hell awaited them upon returning to this foul ground in a second part that seemed unnecessary, and this one did not disappoint in terms of exceeding their already low expectations. There are bad episodes...

For our 220th episode, the Munchies voted and selected a wild Season 11 SVU which sees the unit inexplicably called to investigate an arson leading them first to suspect streaming TV's It Boy, Jeremy Allen White, who is sporting the most disgusting zit makeup ever imagined, before the investigation shifts to a grief-stricken dad. This one marks the first appearance of Sharon Stone as Jo Marlowe, a...

Who loves ya, baby? That's right, the Munchie Boys do. This month we did an entire bonus Movie Club entry for all of our audience, not just the Munchies on Patreon who get one of these a month. And we didn't do just any old movie. We did the anti-rom-com that might just have been the origin of cringe comedy, Elaine May's 1972 masterpiece The Heartbreak Kid , starring Munch alums Charles Grodin and...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you a very special installment of Munch My Benson. Johnny Pemberton was kind enough to spend far too much of his time with Adam and Josh, discussing his life, career, one-man show, and guest appearance on the Season 23 episode of SVU “One More Tale Of Two Victims” which we talked about back in MMB 184 - He’s Never Going to Get the Cum Blan...

Josh sits down with special contributor Natalie, who graciously dives into the themes of Season Five, chiefly just what had happened to the members of the SVU Season Five Writers Room to make them devote more than half a season to how horrible moms can be? Move over, men, because the damage moms do in this season is IMPRESSIVE. Additional Material to Consider Reading: The Outer Limits of Liberalis...

The Munchie Boys sat down for a delightful chat with Matthew Wilson, creator of the positively sublime game SVU: The RPG , diving into the background and inspiration for the only video game you should all be spending your time playing. You can find the game at: https://svuroleplay.com/ (The game doesn't like Chrome, so use a different browser) Matt's non-SVU-related music discussed on this episode...

It’s a sad day in the Munchiverse, as it lost its lodestar with the passing of the man who brought John Munch to life. The Munchie Boys pay homage to the man, the myth, the legend, Richard Belzer. SVU lost a mensch. Music: Divorcio Suave - “Munchy Business” Clips: Intro - Munch’s Going Away Party (Part 1) from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Season 15, Episode 5 “Wonderland Story” 16:58 -...