Why Is Everyone So Thirsty for Christopher Meloni?
The Law & Order icon simply has a great personality
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Christopher Meloni is spread-eagle in a new Interview photoshoot. Currently, I can barely type, not with all the sweat dripping off my body and onto this keyboard. This man stirs something in me… in us all. Why are we so thirsty for it?
The answer is actually quite simple. He radiates the sort of energy one might imagine their best friend’s dad would have in a movie where the two fell in love, in a universe or society where that wasn’t patently creepy. He’s both unkempt and tailored, a sort of disheveled gym rat, if you will. The kind of man Gwen Stefani meant when she sang: “Don’t speak, I know just what you’re saying, so please stop explaining.” Also, most obviously, he is an actor on arguably the most watched television show in American history, whose character still spurs thousands of pages of fanfiction, hours of fan videos, and countless—and I literally mean countless—tweets from new and old viewers alike.
As Jezebel writer Tracy Clark-Flory once explained: “He’s this tortured former Marine with explosive anger issues. A wounded tough guy fighting the good fight.”