I guess it was the intention of this episode to make the audience uncomfortable, but man I can’t believe in real life Burnett’s character wouldn’t go down for something.
Short synopsis is at the end she reveals her adult nephew who lived with her and her murdered husband, who she raised from a small child as a son basically, she had been in a sexual relationship with him since he was a child(ick) and basically manipulated him into murdering her husband. So while they haul the nephew off who is obviously not of sound mind due to the warped abuse, she smiles and gloats how she got rid of both of them while the detectives look slightly disgusted.
My personal theory, from what I’ve read, and what episodes I’d seen, way back when, was that the main detectives were basically just shellshocked, but that they—or their department management—were badly negligent in “pulling them off the line” for transfer to a less-traumatizing assignment, like the Classy Gentleman Cat Burglar & Art Forgery Unit, before they finally snap and have to go out on a medical retirement.
(I have to admit, mostly because the thought of Det. Stabler chasing after Lupin IV for stealing the Guggenheim Museum—the entire museum—warms the cockles of my twisted heart.)
This is very true. To judge by my wife’s TV habits, I do not believe there is a single hour in the day when some iteration of Law and Order is not being shown on some channel somewhere!
Ranchoth, thank you for planting that image in my brain.
And when there isn’t, there is one of the CSI variants.
Speaking of which, of course, somewhat late in the game the network has announced: CSI - Cyber
If you thought the current versions were unrealistic portrayals, based on their precedent I predict this one oughta be a true festival of nerds jumping up and down and throwing things at their TVs screaming “IT DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY!!!”
I think my favorite is the episode where a moron twentysomething guy rapes his girlfriend’s 16 or 17 year old sister because of his “sexsomnia” and then that case is instantly dropped because the girlfriend is kidnapped by an old man who is obsessed with her Second Life character.
My favorite episode is the one where Tracy Pollan stalks her rapist. That one is actually pretty good, though. I’m not sure what my favorite bad episode is. I need some time to think about that. I do like the one for sheer badness where John Stamos is a “reproductive abuser.” Gather 'round for the Afterschool Special, kids.
Then, there’s any episode where the “perp” is a schizophrenic, and someone says the obligatory “As a rule, schizophrenics aren’t violent, but no one told this guy.”
I think my favorite was the one where someone actually got shot in the SVU squad room.
I know some people who know the actor who played the accused rapist in that episode. I always thought if I met him I might ask if he was ever told the outcome of the trial.
Yeah, I know. I was just curious if, behind the scenes, the actors were told anything more about how to play their characters. It might reveal some of what the producer/director/writers had intended.
Why would people bother to call to say they were undecided? If the undecideds hadn’t bothered to call, the percentages would have been different. Instead of 60-20-20, it would have been more like 66-NG; 33-G; 0-U (it depends on what the actual numbers are).
Personally, I hope he gets fired (y’know, if this were a real story). Even if he admits to consensual sex, if it’s with a student who is his student, on most campuses, that’s grounds for termination, even of a tenured professor.
I didn’t know about the vote at the time, but I would’ve voted guilty.
I’m pretty sure it was an online poll and the options were Guilty / Not Guilty / Undecided.
Not me. The story he told seemed a lot more reasonable than the story she told. Plus, IIRC, her friends told the detectives that she had made up stories like that for attention before.
Moved on to seasons 13-15 (Netflix updated their available eps). No more Stabler! or BD Wong or Tamara Tunie.
Good news. I was able to suss out the perp within the first ten minutes and the motive! (“Plain” girl roommate to the rape victim, who out of jealousy arranged a rape by fabricating a fake dating profile and sending out emails, telling a judge that this was all part of a rape fantasy). I need to stop watching this…
I think it might have been one of the Original Recipe episodes, but my favorite ever is the woman who reports that someone is going to kill her – and they can’t find any evidence and have to move on. Of course she ends up dead – Just the way she says “He’s going to kill me” with this desperate but resigned feeling because there’s nothing she can do.
