SVU Predates and Sets the Stages for the Crime Explosion

SVU might be one of the single most important television shows in the 21st century because it predates and sets the stages for the true crime explosion. It's like, that's what nourishes the soil where all those podcasts bring up later. I remember my parents were very resistant to most moral panics of the 90s and 2000s. But if you're constantly like bombarded with that, where it's like targeted at you, like affluent parents, it's targeted at you to be afraid all the time. Even if you resist all the other ones, you're gonna hear of one that's gonna, like you're gonna go, "That's totally true"