It's an average episode, though watching Rollins teach a class is surprisingly engaging. It's great to see Lola Glaudino; she's an underrated actress. But there's no real neat here, except for the performance and lines delivered by a member of the symphony orchestra; I wish the series was on that level of spooky interesting. Still, there was one surprise but of spice. The chemistry between Lola Glaudino and Mariska Hargitay is fabulous. I wish this show was complex enough to show us more subtle character notes. I guess most credit for the two sparkling things in the episode go to the writer but still, props to the ladies and orchestra dude.
5 Reviews
Very Rare Case for Benson To Lose
shelbythuylinh5 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
As you will have to see the ending to believe. And how that she had the suspect over in custody and in that the suspect ends up escaping and that it ends there the episode. A very rare case for Benson to lose a suspect.
She always gets her man or woman in this case. And that she does it either with or without Elliott and that over the rest of her squad.
A female working her way up on the fast track joins her boss in a sleazy party in which she ends up getting raped. At first she wants to deny that but SVU says that by doing so, gives the rapist even more and more momentum to commit rape time and again.
Still the real villain is a male bashing CEO that wants to close a deal there and could be covering up the rape.
She always gets her man or woman in this case. And that she does it either with or without Elliott and that over the rest of her squad.
A female working her way up on the fast track joins her boss in a sleazy party in which she ends up getting raped. At first she wants to deny that but SVU says that by doing so, gives the rapist even more and more momentum to commit rape time and again.
Still the real villain is a male bashing CEO that wants to close a deal there and could be covering up the rape.
Controlled Burn
bobcobb30113 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Well, it had been quite some time since we got an episode where they featured some hedge funds or big money guys at the forefront of the villain role, and by quite some time I mean just last season, but nevertheless.
A by the book episode for all purposes, but still one that seemed to fly by and was enjoyable from start to finish.
The show has found a groove and a bit of a renewed added edge this sason, but it still can be a lot better. While grittier, it feels like Law and Order: Organized Crime is taking that the right way and making use of the limits that broadcast dramas are allowed to go to.
A by the book episode for all purposes, but still one that seemed to fly by and was enjoyable from start to finish.
The show has found a groove and a bit of a renewed added edge this sason, but it still can be a lot better. While grittier, it feels like Law and Order: Organized Crime is taking that the right way and making use of the limits that broadcast dramas are allowed to go to.
Wait, is that the guy???
Racingphan27 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
How can the hero of my favorite Hallmark Christmas movie, Snow Bride, play such a pervert? I'll never be able to watch it again after seeing him perving it up on this episode.
The real baddie here is played by the actress who portrayed on of the best characters on Criminal Minds, Elle. And she is spectacular here, sporting a fabulous blonde hairdo.
Kudos also to the actress playing the victim Maggie. Brook Bloom is just awesome here. This is actually her third different character in the SVU world.
I'm still 80 characters short of the 600 letter minimum that this website enforcers. Still none left.
The real baddie here is played by the actress who portrayed on of the best characters on Criminal Minds, Elle. And she is spectacular here, sporting a fabulous blonde hairdo.
Kudos also to the actress playing the victim Maggie. Brook Bloom is just awesome here. This is actually her third different character in the SVU world.
I'm still 80 characters short of the 600 letter minimum that this website enforcers. Still none left.
Almost a Good Episode, but then Benson Snatches Defeat from Victory
bkkaz4 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
So, this episode starts out like some of the older ones -- you know, that were better written and acted. The teaser is a bit more developed, with a parallel between Rollins doing some kind of kooky TED talk while a corporate weasel takes a plain Jane number cruncher to what purports to be some kind of budget Eyes Wide Shut party.
But then it has to cut to the bedroom hijinks of the ever bond jumping Rollins and the sad, whiny, needy Carisi (who, in his determination to further emasculate, is thrown up against a wall James Bond style by his girlfriend, bitten, and likes it).
For a while, it even manages to stay more within the bounds of a procedural. Oh, sure, there's plenty of melodrama, especially with the INCREDIBLY OMINOUS MUSIC, but if SVU stops short of having a guy in a high hat tying a damsel to the railroad tracks, it's like a Ken Burns documentary compared to most episodes.
But then Mariska Hargitay has to put her cape and Viking helmet on and leap into the room as Benson, the Ever Mighty and Just, and snarl, "Blah, blah, blah, I'll be coming back with a present for you, yada, yada, yada, chrome bracelets, hubba, hubba, hubba, you know, handcuffs." All that to just say she'll arrest her. What are you, paid by the hour?
This leads them to a yutz straight out of central casting, a kind of parody of a grown Jerry Mathers. He babbles something about killing birds, so I'm sure if he's supposed to be a serial killer or what. Anyway, he babbles on about symphonies while the increasingly constipated looking Carisi scowls until the obvious suspect is revealed. DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN.
If this episode feels recycled from any number of others, it is. But strangely enough, the tone and execution is a little more like the classic SVUs than the utter dreck of the past 5 or so years.
Once more, this is not a great accomplishment. They could splice together scenes from, oh, seasons 4-9 in random order and it would be more entertaining than SVU in recent times. But you gotta give props where props are due, and except for the stomach-turning mandatory Hargitay worshipping moments, this episode feels almost competent.
Of course, there's the usual male bashing -- with this real forced and silly moment where the usual passive-aggressive male bashing Benson is contrasted with an evil aggressive-aggressive male bashing CEO -- that circles back to try to justify itself when Benson opines about the high percentage of crimes committed by men. I mean, statistics don't lie, do they?
Now, think about that. What if we inserted a racial group instead into that statement, going by the actual crime statistics that indicate some are statistically overrepresented as violent criminals? What if Benson mused that because these statistics showed this to be true, it in some way supported any prejudices she might have against that racial group while on the job? I'm sure people would be justifiably outraged. Well, except the bigots. But male bashing is okay. In fact, on this show, it's endorsed. Hey, stats don't lie, right?
Nice try, "writers," nice try, but the gaslighting won't work. Bashing is bashing.
This is probably why Ice T keeps his head down and his mouth shut most of the time, just cashing the big checks. Smartest guy on TV.
But then it has to cut to the bedroom hijinks of the ever bond jumping Rollins and the sad, whiny, needy Carisi (who, in his determination to further emasculate, is thrown up against a wall James Bond style by his girlfriend, bitten, and likes it).
For a while, it even manages to stay more within the bounds of a procedural. Oh, sure, there's plenty of melodrama, especially with the INCREDIBLY OMINOUS MUSIC, but if SVU stops short of having a guy in a high hat tying a damsel to the railroad tracks, it's like a Ken Burns documentary compared to most episodes.
But then Mariska Hargitay has to put her cape and Viking helmet on and leap into the room as Benson, the Ever Mighty and Just, and snarl, "Blah, blah, blah, I'll be coming back with a present for you, yada, yada, yada, chrome bracelets, hubba, hubba, hubba, you know, handcuffs." All that to just say she'll arrest her. What are you, paid by the hour?
This leads them to a yutz straight out of central casting, a kind of parody of a grown Jerry Mathers. He babbles something about killing birds, so I'm sure if he's supposed to be a serial killer or what. Anyway, he babbles on about symphonies while the increasingly constipated looking Carisi scowls until the obvious suspect is revealed. DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN.
If this episode feels recycled from any number of others, it is. But strangely enough, the tone and execution is a little more like the classic SVUs than the utter dreck of the past 5 or so years.
Once more, this is not a great accomplishment. They could splice together scenes from, oh, seasons 4-9 in random order and it would be more entertaining than SVU in recent times. But you gotta give props where props are due, and except for the stomach-turning mandatory Hargitay worshipping moments, this episode feels almost competent.
Of course, there's the usual male bashing -- with this real forced and silly moment where the usual passive-aggressive male bashing Benson is contrasted with an evil aggressive-aggressive male bashing CEO -- that circles back to try to justify itself when Benson opines about the high percentage of crimes committed by men. I mean, statistics don't lie, do they?
Now, think about that. What if we inserted a racial group instead into that statement, going by the actual crime statistics that indicate some are statistically overrepresented as violent criminals? What if Benson mused that because these statistics showed this to be true, it in some way supported any prejudices she might have against that racial group while on the job? I'm sure people would be justifiably outraged. Well, except the bigots. But male bashing is okay. In fact, on this show, it's endorsed. Hey, stats don't lie, right?
Nice try, "writers," nice try, but the gaslighting won't work. Bashing is bashing.
This is probably why Ice T keeps his head down and his mouth shut most of the time, just cashing the big checks. Smartest guy on TV.
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