While investigating the death of a sexually-active 17-year-old girl, SVU finds that a suspect in the case is deliberately spreading HIV to his many sexual partners.While investigating the death of a sexually-active 17-year-old girl, SVU finds that a suspect in the case is deliberately spreading HIV to his many sexual partners.While investigating the death of a sexually-active 17-year-old girl, SVU finds that a suspect in the case is deliberately spreading HIV to his many sexual partners.
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- TriviaBased on the "bystander effect," first popularized after the murder of Kitty Genovese in the mid 60s. Interestingly, by the time this episode aired, the previously accepted story about the Genovese case (that when Genovese was raped and murdered, many witnesses who resided in her apartment complex saw the event transpire and chose not to act either by intervening directly or alerting the authorities) had been largely debunked--it was found to have derived almost totally from one heavily inaccurate account of the murder. But this has not stopped the case from remaining emblematic of bystander apathy and group inhumanity in the public imagination; despite the record having been set straight, many laypeople (and even some psychological professionals) still retain their prior misunderstandings about the case and continue to call any instance in which a bystanding individual or group fails to intervene the "Genovese syndrome."
- GoofsThe Chief of Detectives is wearing the wrong rank insignia. He is shown wearing four stars, the Chief of Detectives (along with the other Deputy Chiefs) wear three stars. Only the Chief of Police and the Police Commissioner wear four stars.
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Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, the worse Butler's injuries look to the jury, the more sympathy he's going to generate.
Lionel Granger: A man is savagely maimed for life and you think I'm only concerned about how to work the angle.
Detective Olivia Benson: Well, if it quacks like a duck.
"Quickie" doesn't do this. It is better than the very disappointing previous episode "Anchor", which represented everything that is bad about the franchise when it took on too much of a political slant. It just felt very flat and uninvolving somehow, and it is a subject that has been tackled before on both 'Special Victims Unit' and the original 'Law and Order' and much better with much more tact. "Quickie" is not a terrible episode, it just did very little for me.
While there are more interesting episodes visually, the photography is slick enough and doesn't seem too static or gimmicky while not being inspired. The music doesn't get too melodramatic or over-used. Did like Stabler's reaction to the stockbroker line and it was great to see more of Warner.
Stephanie March is a strong presence, making it clear that Cabot is not one to mess with, but this is a case of the supporting cast making a much bigger impression. Jack Larson and Brian Geraghty hit hard with their interpretations, the former moving and the latter chilling to the bone. Mattie Hawkinson harrowingly plays a character that performs an uncondable action but one still roots for justice.
Uncharacteristically however, the regular cast seem to be going through the motions and the complete waste of Fin to the point of pointlessness is unforgivable. The script lacks tautness and can feel ham-handed, Cabot's grilling of Rebecca on the stand was pure melodrama to the max. The story didn't make me angry, not like "Anchor" did, but it felt very derivative (it is a subject that the franchise has done before and one can tell), lacks suspense, is very predictable (the perpetrator's guilt is not in question due to the obvious way they are written) and just felt flat.
Furthermore, "Quickie" also tries to do too much, with too many elements that are not developed enough. The policing is quite routine and the legal portion needed a lot more tension and didn't come over as plausible with questionable legalities. Especially regarding the advertising and the randomly introduced and "doesn't ring true for a second" change of heart. Only the character writing for Larson's character rings true, the character that one feels the most for. Cabot comes over as too aggressive and pushy, she surely can't expect someone to remember everything months after the event under that amount of pressure.
Overall, "Quickie" was watchable but rather flat. 5/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- May 11, 2022