SVU back to basics! I felt like I was watching the older seasons tonight. My heart was racing the entire time. The final scene was so good. Rollins played a minor role and had been absent a lot this season but she was the star in this episode.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Post-Graduate Psychopath (2021)
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Great episode
agerson2421 May 2021
I haven't watched SVU in years but I loved the original episode Ethan Cutkosky was in years ago so I wanted to watch this episode. Absolutely loved it- great acting all around. Ethan plays a psychopath so brilliantly (that's meant as a compliment even though it sounds super creepy to say) and it was fun to see a follow up on where a character is.
Amazing episode
JonanthanNewOrleans22 May 2021
Ethan Cutkosky was brilliant!
smith-718986 June 2021
SVU turning point
RosemaryBlue25 October 2023
This episode, and the episodes after, feel radically different from the rest of this season and possibly the season before it. This episode feels like classic SVU writing. It has a classic SVU plot. The previous episodes and season(s) had too much of a political feel to them, but not too much to put me off SVU completely. This episode came at just the right time because I was nearing my peak with the political tension plots, although they weren't done too badly, they were overdone at this point. And this episode is a true turning point. It feels like seeing an old friend and everything suddenly feeling like "the good old days", and then realizing you've been missing them way more than you thought. I've watched the last two episodes of season 22 and the first few episodes of season 23 and the political undertones are much lighter now. This is a welcomed change. Politics are a part of society (and institutions e.g. The NYPD) and politics were (and still are) at the forefront of American social discourse but it really started to feel overdone and repetitive.
Best episode of the season
MovieFreak86-415-91253121 May 2021
My opinion, this has been the worst season I've watched. But I liked this episode. It reminded me of episodes from earlier seasons. Nothing about covid, nothing about anti-police, and anything else that as been going on in the world this last year. This was just a classic trying to find the killer before it's to late episode.
There has only been one really good episode this season, and this is it. That is not a good thing. It makes me think SVU has been on to long, and if I should even watch the two seasons that it has been renewed for.
There has only been one really good episode this season, and this is it. That is not a good thing. It makes me think SVU has been on to long, and if I should even watch the two seasons that it has been renewed for.
Come Back Episode
buddybradley-2266528 May 2021
Only good by comparison..
Lexiconjobbs27 May 2021
Oh what to rate this one? Do I give it an 8 because of the weak cheese political crap we've been getting, and I want to reward good behavior in the right direction? I dunno. This episode was better than anything they've given us in awhile. But so eye rolling cliche. "Life is closer to death than people realize" was one of the lines the psychopath drops in an attempt to be dark and misunderstood-again eye roll. Did the writers even try? Lame. But I wasn't violently disappointed like I have been the rest of this season.
Weak Sequel to -- for the past 10 years -- a pretty good SVU episode
bkkaz21 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
So the original episode had a psychopath kid who by the end made it clear he was an evil monster. The parents didn't want to believe it and basically enable him to kill a dog and try to kill his mother and sister. It was The Bad Seed, of course, but it was done reasonably well, stopping short, though, of assigning any blame for him. This sequel is nothing like that episode. For starters, the first half is nothing but a chase, as he leaves bodies in his wake after getting out of juvenile jail so he can start rampaging. There's a lot of running around and some psychobabble and soap opera nonsense -- do we need to be reminded yet again that some of the characters are parents or that the shrinks all want to diagnose the obvious? It ends with another hostage situation and then another melodramatic moment in the courtroom, sure to make all the 17-year-olds go, "That was some great television!" For the rest of us, nah.
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