What a treat to see Rita Calhoun back as a defense lawyer taking on another high-profile case. Carisi was barely in the courtroom last season and now he's being thrown into the deep end.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
The Long Arm of the Witness (2021)
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Great Episode
wrenleung22 January 2021
Fantastic
vagtea22 January 2021
This was so good just like in the early years of the show and the judge who is the accused is very intimating which makes this episode even better
and the wooman who were the victims acted very we'll and the one in the stand who said she couldn't do this anymore like wow
I love how Dominick Carisi was there were no slow points tho going to just punch the judge for limping him off
and when it came to the court sessions i was at the edge of my seat
hope we get more like these episodes and this will turn out to be one of there best seasons
oh and the end was brilliant
I love Wentworth Miller!!
juliefelton717 July 2021
Yes, Yes, Yes
dcarroll7425 January 2021
Now we're back to basics, in the 21st century.
As a white, hetro, male, I have always detested sexual and other abuses of females, and males. Ever since this series started, I missed the first 3 series because, my last partner 2001-03, of English decent, (I'm Irish), was drugged and sexually abused in Rio De Janerio, and couldn't bear to watch, which is understandable. Thankfully "it" was impotent, and wasn't able to rape her.
When we broke up, it took a few years to catch up (no catch up services were available at the time). Of all the American series I've watched over the years, SVU has been consistant. Criminal Minds bowed out in a whimper, which was disappointing, I've stopped watching NCIS because of the onstage debacle over a dog, and all the other REAL Law and Order series have run their course. Beyond Borders was beyond belief so, I gave it a miss.
The beauty of the current series is, the scripts are very current and up to date. What most viewers don't realise is, the "date" shown in the intro to each court part, is on the day, and done that week. Because of the pandemic, each episode is virtually being done in a week, not 3 to 6 months prior, because of restrictions.
Cudos to everyone involved.
As a white, hetro, male, I have always detested sexual and other abuses of females, and males. Ever since this series started, I missed the first 3 series because, my last partner 2001-03, of English decent, (I'm Irish), was drugged and sexually abused in Rio De Janerio, and couldn't bear to watch, which is understandable. Thankfully "it" was impotent, and wasn't able to rape her.
When we broke up, it took a few years to catch up (no catch up services were available at the time). Of all the American series I've watched over the years, SVU has been consistant. Criminal Minds bowed out in a whimper, which was disappointing, I've stopped watching NCIS because of the onstage debacle over a dog, and all the other REAL Law and Order series have run their course. Beyond Borders was beyond belief so, I gave it a miss.
The beauty of the current series is, the scripts are very current and up to date. What most viewers don't realise is, the "date" shown in the intro to each court part, is on the day, and done that week. Because of the pandemic, each episode is virtually being done in a week, not 3 to 6 months prior, because of restrictions.
Cudos to everyone involved.
Juvenile About a Real Issue
bkkaz12 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Another pandering episode that takes a serious subject -- when the lynch mob tries to take someone down in the court of public opinion -- and treats it with contempt. In this case, there's a judge who is drawn so mono-dimensionally, he might as well be twirling a mustache while burning the 19th Amendment. He's so smug and scene chewing, he'd make a soap opera seem like Masterpiece Theater. The SVU crew, led by the ever less realistic Benson, want to take down a judge who seems to be using his courtroom to create a platform for a bigger political career. And, of course, he will do it on the backs of women made to suffer from the unfair judgments in his courtroom. If that's not enough, there are victims coming forward about the judge's assaults on women. There's no mystery here. It plays like the issues-oriented story it is, which is to say starting with a common societal problem and using the entire episode to lay it out like a magazine article on the subject. Remember the days when even SVU tried for complexity? They're long gone.
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