This episode really kept my attention throughout. Just because you are dumb enough to think empty "I love you"'s are real doesn't mean you can rape someone and claim they lead you on.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
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Pretty good
joenak6 February 2021
Perversion at its best
jeeper-7827812 February 2023
This episode perfectly depicts perversion on both sides of webcam performances and the perverts who watch them. The defendant played by Alex Brightman plays the perfect pervert. The courtroom drama plays out all the aspects of the industry and individuals involved. The SVU squad room banter illustrates all of the points of view of webcams and their place in current society but really ends up showing how damaging it is and how much harm it does. As with most SVU episodes the bad guy shows his true colors and pieces of lives are left to be picked up off the courtroom floor. You can't help watching this episode and feel the creepiness of it all. I feel like the main characters walk through their roles but all provide competent performances.
Best this season for me so far.
jayjay2171820 February 2021
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This season for me has been a bit shaky so far. It's not bad just some of the stuff feels first like first episode when ever one hates cops. Or the one before this where they kept bringing up he's a vet. I know this one focused on the crazy fan but seeing Carisi in these last two episodes being over whelmed on how to win have been good. Only thing that I would of liked if they showed us a bit more at the end. I feel that Kat might of cammed before based on her reactions in this one.
Effing Fantastic!
MrsTheFrog16 January 2021
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This episode was flawless. I was on the edge of my seat, screaming at my tv (which is the height of SVU enjoyment haha). For starters, Alex Brightman's performance as Gabe was so, so impeccable. He perfectly walked the line between creepy sleezeball and nice guy next door. Very impressive.
Second, Law & Order takes current and relevant issues and rips the throat out of them, and I love every effing second of it. Sex work is real work, and they go out of their way to show that sex workers come from all different walks of life, for all different reasons.
Sex workers deserve respect. No matter how well they act or blur the line between reality and fantasy, they deserve privacy, anonymity and to not be assaulted. That is common sense. Period. And this episode makes that point very, very well. The onus is on the client to be able to distinguish between the two - to follow the rules set out, and make sure they understand the consent (or consensual non-consent roleplay) in every situation. Mental illness, obsession, stalking, etc. are not valid excuses to put this blame on the sex worker who is performing.
Nobody who gets arrested for stalking a celebrity argues that "how was I supposed to know they were lying?" because ... duh? Same situation, except sex is involved. There is no loophole for creeps/men.
More like this, please! So incredible!
Second, Law & Order takes current and relevant issues and rips the throat out of them, and I love every effing second of it. Sex work is real work, and they go out of their way to show that sex workers come from all different walks of life, for all different reasons.
Sex workers deserve respect. No matter how well they act or blur the line between reality and fantasy, they deserve privacy, anonymity and to not be assaulted. That is common sense. Period. And this episode makes that point very, very well. The onus is on the client to be able to distinguish between the two - to follow the rules set out, and make sure they understand the consent (or consensual non-consent roleplay) in every situation. Mental illness, obsession, stalking, etc. are not valid excuses to put this blame on the sex worker who is performing.
Nobody who gets arrested for stalking a celebrity argues that "how was I supposed to know they were lying?" because ... duh? Same situation, except sex is involved. There is no loophole for creeps/men.
More like this, please! So incredible!
Secondary lives, sex workers and their clients or hunters
yazguloner6 June 2021
Svu deals with more intense and deeper topics starting from season 20, intensifying 21 and still continuing. The events are not only black or white, but dark gray. That's why the events are always difficult dilemmas and purgatory.
Because svu has also matured.. deeper, more responsible.. This maturity is expected from a series on universal rights and human rights.
For reference in this story, you can watch season 3 episode 7 played Elisabeth Banks.
Other the best references of this section 16x5 Pornstar's Requiem.
Because svu has also matured.. deeper, more responsible.. This maturity is expected from a series on universal rights and human rights.
For reference in this story, you can watch season 3 episode 7 played Elisabeth Banks.
Other the best references of this section 16x5 Pornstar's Requiem.
OMG so pathetic
JonanthanNewOrleans15 January 2021
Episode was decent, 6/10, even though as for the last few years too politically correct and preachy, the ending was awful an easy way out to have the ''bad guy'' lose and the poor victim ''win'' whereas it's not as black and white as svu always tries to preach...
The guys using those cam girls thinking believing those girls are their friends are so pathetic, if they didn't pay them those girls would not even look at them.
Just as for those cam girls/call girls/prostitutes saying '' they are my friends we are a community blablabla '' are so dishonest and hypocrite, wouldn't the guys pay them they wouldn't even look at them, even less talk to them lol.
The guys using those cam girls thinking believing those girls are their friends are so pathetic, if they didn't pay them those girls would not even look at them.
Just as for those cam girls/call girls/prostitutes saying '' they are my friends we are a community blablabla '' are so dishonest and hypocrite, wouldn't the guys pay them they wouldn't even look at them, even less talk to them lol.
Ugh, Another Good Premise but Dumb Execution
bkkaz15 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers
So, this episode visits territory SVU has before, which is where is the line drawn between the fantasy that sex workers present as reality, however fleeting, and the reality it creates for their customers, however lasting? After all, on some level, sex workers all lie to their customers in order to make money from them, but the nature of the relationship relies on the customer knowing and accepting this. What happens when the customer either doesn't understand or because of mental illness or a personality disorder, acts out inappropriately?
In other words, both parties must accept the fantasy nature to avoid disaster. It's an interesting and all too real premise.
The problem in the episode is in its determination to take the victim's side -- the sex worker here is assaulted by her customer after feigning an intimate relationship that might blur understanding what is real and what is fantasy -- it flushes out all possible complexity. No, no victim deserves to be assaulted, which is a foregone conclusion, but drama is about shades of gray. As with so many SVU episodes of the past few years, rather than present different sides to the equation and letting the viewer come to a conclusion, the episode merely preaches to viewers. Worse, it does so in the most cheesy of ways -- again, as so many SVU episodes of the past few years have -- by having the unstable defendant pull a deux ex machina mental breakdown in court.
The problem in the episode is in its determination to take the victim's side -- the sex worker here is assaulted by her customer after feigning an intimate relationship that might blur understanding what is real and what is fantasy -- it flushes out all possible complexity. No, no victim deserves to be assaulted, which is a foregone conclusion, but drama is about shades of gray. As with so many SVU episodes of the past few years, rather than present different sides to the equation and letting the viewer come to a conclusion, the episode merely preaches to viewers. Worse, it does so in the most cheesy of ways -- again, as so many SVU episodes of the past few years have -- by having the unstable defendant pull a deux ex machina mental breakdown in court.
What happened to accountability for your actions?
rostomyanl18 October 2021
This show is turning into "you can do whatever you want and expect justice for every consequence that comes from it"... it is teaching the young women of this generation that it's okay to be irresponsible, get drunk, do drugs, do sex work and nothing bad should happen. In a perfect world... we don't live in one. So let's learn to be responsible and more aware of our actions and surroundings rather than expect no one to be crazy and do bad things. If we make smarter choices, we won't need to be "protected" like crazy Kat claims.
And by the way, men can be victims too.
And by the way, men can be victims too.
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