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Law & Order: Criminal Intent on NBC

If there is a parent who wishes that they could take their family to an R-rated movie on a school night but cannot afford today’s steep theater prices, that parent would find that on February 27^th NBC did them a service – by bringing adult content to their children for free. That evening’s episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent featured a disturbing sex-driven murder plot that included depictions of fetishes and hardcore sex.  The episode scored a trifecta of sorts, as it assaulted the 9:00 p.m. ET hour (only 8 o’clock in the Central and Mountain time zones) with offensive sex, violence, and language.

The episode opens with a married man sitting at a bar.  Two women approach and proposition him with an offer for three-way sex.  He agrees and is escorted to a hotel room.  The scene then cuts to the next morning, where the man wakes in bed next to one of his previous night’s sex partners, who is now wearing only a bra and panties and is tied up  in what is described as “erotic Japanese bondage.”  The image is severely disturbing as the girl’s lifeless corpse stares blankly.  The man gathers his clothing and runs out of the room.  Later, with the victim’s body now on the coroner’s table, the viewer learns that the woman was strangled to death with the ropes -- and that semen was found in her mouth.

Later in the episode the detectives watch a sex tape which is being used to blackmail the main suspect.  The tape is graphic and features rear-entry sex, the latest lewd act NBC is increasingly depicting in many of its programs. While watching the clip Detective Logan crudely says:

"He'll flip her over any second.  If he's cheating on his wife he's not going missionary the whole way."

The producers of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the executives at NBC are leaders in the charge that parents should be solely responsible for what their families watch.  The network exhibits no sense of responsibility for the content it produces, which continually walks the line of indecency stopping just short of federal fines.  This episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent is a perfect example of NBC’s emphasis on sex, making it the clear choice for Worst of the Week.