We. Are. Coming.
Can you feel it?
Tomorrow, Monday, May 11, 2020, Munch My Benson will be unleashed on the world.
The Mission: Every week, Adam Schwitters and Josh Duggan tackle a random episode of the longest-running primetime drama in television history Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, reckoning with the breakneck pacing, wrestling with the show’s inherent problematic elements, and reveling in its general insanity. If you’ve ever been floored by a jarring left turn, guffawed at a jaw-dropping line of inappropriate dialogue, or gotten pumped after Ice T drops a golden nugget of dialogue, this is the podcast for you.
Week one will see us drop three—yes, THREE—episodes of the podcast.
Here’s a round-up of those three:
Episode 1: Dick Wolf Being Dick Wolf
Come along with Adam Schwitters and Josh Duggan as they start things off at the very beginning with the first episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Season 1, Episode 1 - Payback, the only episode penned by the one and only Dickwolf in the 21 seasons of SVU. They guide you through the rough-and-tumble world of architecture, Bosnian cuisine, tawdry art galleries, cabbie culture, genital mutilation, and Serbian war criminals, complete with the myriad twists and turns you’ll come to expect from the dark minds of the SVU writing staff. This episode also features the bonus content of a Dickwolf career retrospective.
Episode 2: Hot Mike Sandoval Comes in the Back Door
In their sophomore installment, Adam Schwitters and Josh Duggan jump forward to Season 6, Episode 8 to unpack a Fin-centric entry into the canon entitled Haunted. Odafin Tutuola refuses to be slowed by trifles as insignificant as bullets, throwing recovery to the wind after being shot in the line of duty. With his past screeching into his present and everyone along for the ride, he dives back into the explosive world of narcotics with SVU’s Poochy, Hot Mike Sandoval, searching for the answers as to what happened to a wayward soul in the shadowy orbit of VANCE DENNIS, who Fin worked with as and undercover cop years earlier.
Episode 3: Is that Staten Island Slang?
The Randomizer sends Adam Schwitters and Josh Duggan screaming into the near-present, all the way forward to “Intent” from Season 19, Episode 8. In their first foray into the Ripped from the Headlines fare that established Law & Order as a brand, the gang at SVU investigate a rape that isn’t quite what it seems. Featuring Shameless’s Steve Howey as an MMA fighter nicknamed ‘The Monster,” we watch as he jarringly rapes an Instagram star, only to find out that she asked for him to rape her. Or did she? The search for the truth takes the unit to West Virginia and back, with road movie hilarity ensuing. This is all based on a real-life incident involving former NBA star, Chris “The Birdman” Andersen and Instagram star Paris Roxanne/Dunn/Dylan, which was featured on two episodes of Catfish—Season 4, Episode 6 “Felipe & Jasmine” and Season 6, Episode 12 “Open Investigation.”
Also, Adam and Josh would like to extend a huge thank you to Divorcio Suave for the theme music for the podcast.
