Mariska Hargitay portrays the most vile written character on TV. It cannot be possible that this role is not specifically tailored and customized to her personality and present being. Thus she is one of the most vile of people.
The character represents everything that is reprehensible of our corporate fascist culture: soulless, the oh so faux compassionate expressions, demeaning dysphemistic denoument, overt and direct bitchiness formulate to project that all victims are to blame for all of their circumstances especially those who are damningly unwilling to rise up and become part of the MS culture zombie parades. If ever there was a personal symbolic referent for all that Barbara Erhenreich finds vile and despicable in her new book BAIT AND SWITCH it is this combined character and actress in this role. Is it any wonder that she is rewarded with Emmy nominations by the very same establishment by which she is used to express their version of the Ned Beatty NETWORK message!!
What makes this more meaningful to me is that i have know that family for more forty years. When her brother Zoltan was nearly eaten by lions at a stupid abusive little hollywood style wild animal park in what is now Agoura/Simi Valley, the family attended the same church with mine, and all were asked to share our prayers and thoughts for them. A few years later i ended up teaching Zoltan while i was at UCLA, and knew both the father and mother from conferences and discussions. The father was part of the Venice bodybuilding community(muscle beach), an area in which i lifeguarded for a while. So Mariska's life is well known to me. As the youngest child, in a family that got much too much attention than it truly deserved, she has become the spoiled little princess and lives up to her role of the preeminent bitch of righteous conservative zealotry. It is simply disgusting.