This is a Terrible School

Anyone who watches lots of crime shows knows that "Hudson University" is a depraved place of higher education, offering up skullduggery, murder, theft...

Hudson University is where sociopath Nicole Wallace from Law & Order: Criminal Intent begins her encounters with Detective Goren.

In Law & Order: Criminal Intent's "Yesterday," the naive partner to a serial killer, Ricky, went to Hudson University.  

A suspect in Castle's "In Plane Sight" is enrolled at Hudson University. He isn't the villain at least!

Castle gives us another professor at Hudson who isn't a villain. In fact, he's the victim. But his wife is, ah, not entirely non-psychotic ("Head Case"). 

Two (unintentional) villains from Castle attended Hudson University: the leader of a Takeover Wall Street movement and an ambitious reporter. ("47 Seconds").

In Blue Bloods' "Parenthood," students at Hudson University get arrested when they protest tuition hikes. The incident leads to a debate over whether the students should be charged with felonies. 

Also from Blue Bloods, the episode "Secret Arrangements" focuses on a Hudson professor who participated in a prostitute ring that masqueraded as a "scholarship" program.  

And Blue Bloods produces the AOC-like "Hudson Professor" who appears in Season 9. Frank calls her out for applying "Ivory Tower" techniques/theories to real world situations. The result is nobody gets heard; the group's point is lost to the "disruption." 

In fact, Blue Bloods presents an episode where Hudson University authorities "lose" evidence regarding a possible rape on campus rather than contacting the police, all to protect the college's reputation. 

It obviously doesn't work.  Hudson University is a simply terrible place to go to school!

(Though it does have a great name--kudos to the writer who invented it.)

According to Brennan, after she encounters numerous dumb college students who behave stupidly regarding non-safe sex, "Atlantic State University" in Bones may be a contender for terrible place to send one's kid.  

1 comment:

Matthew said...

It was probably better when Robin, the Boy Wonder was its protector:
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Hudson_University