Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) Dance, Lies and Videotape (2020) User Reviews

A Little Too Real

[dtporter-886-883020 · 9/10 · 27 March 2020]

As a professional photographer, I've been associated with dancers for years. I watched intently, then eventually learned, to capture visually the angst and self-denying/other-affirming needs of performance artists, especially female artists.

Exaggerated for dramatic impact, one must nonetheless appreciate this episode's script via the primordial forces which led the victim(s) and the predators to be as they are portrayed. There is evil, and humans suffer.

The writers illustrated the horrific pressures put on female artists. Predators are common; morality is too often in short supply. I caution all viewers, regardless of gender, to heed the prima's warning in the last scene. Don't let the "rush of ovation" become your raison d'etre. It will destroy your art, and eliminate your self. To your own self be true.

Dance, Lies and Videotape

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 2 April 2020]

A pretty good episode here that explored a topic not covered often in TV with ballet.

Was it an all-time classic? No, but even ignoring how predictable it was, it was still entertaining.

Eye Rape

[yazguloner · 8/10 · 29 May 2021]

Good, article. The creator of the eye rape presenting it in the camera lens, on the video screen, and in the eye itself.

It was also nice that the aesthetic of the dance was used throughout the series. However, the competition in the performing arts could have been described more strikingly and effectively.

But it could have been a better article. Been, Like 6s 8e "doubt" story.

Because the aesthetics in this story are not well understood.

Ps. Do you know about the music playing at the beginning? Please tell me.

Even ballet artistes?

[lor_ · 8 July 2023]

Hip scripting makes this a timely episode, dealing with the world of porn in a novel context: submitting illicit sex tapes recorded in a ballet company's studio to a porn site, with revenge porn thrown in against the ballerinas.

It's an interesting examination of corruption in a milieu where one wouldn't automatically expect it to fester, plus some interesting psycology of how an extremely competitive environment (see the movie "Black Swan" with Natalie Portman) can engender sexual exploitation.

I especially enjoyed in-jokes, like name-droppng "Rule 34" and the depiction of a low-rent porn site mocking Pornhub.