After a sexual assault investigation is stalled for months, a woman puts her accusations against a popular athlete on a billboard.After a sexual assault investigation is stalled for months, a woman puts her accusations against a popular athlete on a billboard.After a sexual assault investigation is stalled for months, a woman puts her accusations against a popular athlete on a billboard.
- Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
- Judge Colin McNamara
- (as Stephen Bradbury)
Storyline
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Olivia Benson: So, I'm walking down 10th Avenue with Noah...
Amanda Rollins: A lot of anger there. Rape in a strip club? Certainly credible.
Katriona Tamin: It says she went to NYPD in December. I'll check OLCS.
Odafin Tutuola: Must've been a local precinct.
Amanda Rollins: Something happened to her.
Olivia Benson: Yeah.
Katriona Tamin: There were two rapes reports filed in Manhattan South on that date. One was a DV, and the other one was ours.
Olivia Benson: But neither is her. This is an outcry. Fin and Kat, check local strip clubs.
[to Rollins]
Olivia Benson: Check out the billboard company. Whoever she is, I wanna find her.
- SoundtracksAll The Way
Performed by Poppy Wilde
Played during the opening scenes
That's this point in the arc of SVU's evolution from a semi-police procedural for years to tripe and melodrama. This episode is a good example. We get the struggling artist who moonlights as a stripper (or is it the other way around?), with her doofus-y skateboarder-type boyfriend. She's sexually assaulted by a hulking, arrogant professional athlete (oh, and he's Black and she's White). Of course, when she goes to report it, she's met by a blue wall of toxic masculine disdain, until she was must "Three Billboards" style take matters into her own hands and get the attention of the crusading SVU.
SVU is no longer an investigatory unit. You know, that goes in, does interviews and collects facts, and then makes arrests if warranted. They're an advocacy group. The victim is always right. False accusations never happen. No one is ever drunk, mentally ill, or suffering from faulty memories or confusion. It's crystal clear who the perpetrator is, and apparently, SVU's challenge is not in sorting through the many sometimes changing stories and questionable witnesses to find the truth but fighting an establishment determined to keep the victims -- invariably pretty women -- down. That they're part of that establishment seems to escape them, as does any hint they could ever do wrong. It's the stuff of comic books or Lifetime movies.
By the way, you can tell how maudlin and formulaic an episode will be if it starts with a semi-folksy pop music montage by a female vocalist.
- bkkaz
- Apr 13, 2022