Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) Nightmares in Drill City (2021) User Reviews

Nightmares in Drill City

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 24 February 2022]

There were a lot of logistical flaws with this episode, but the rappers and their beef was a little different and a little refreshing from most of the stories we've had this season.

The end of an era?

[wayderichardson · 8/10 · 12 November 2021]

So this show for most of the series has been 22-24 episodes per season. This one was 8. Reading the writing on the wall, I'd say this show is close to its end. It's disappointing because it still seems to pack a punch with its relevant story lines. I hope I'm wrong, but I've seen this play too many times.

Second Chance

[yazguloner · 10/10 · 27 November 2021]

"Sometimes justice is about compassion, not punishment"

This word of his concubine puts the last point on the subject.

Because, everyone deserves a second chance.

Carisi's performance was so good.

Great episode

[kuprescod · 10/10 · 30 May 2022]

This was a hard hitting SVU, where folks were both right and wrong. Depending on where you sit, it ended well or outrageously, which makes the best episodes. Well written and delivered.

Mainstream Makes a Difference

[liljen_jen84 · 3/10 · 12 November 2021]

I feel like Tori should've went to jail. She was involved period. Whether she pulled the trigger or not she was there and was the connection between them. I felt she got a pass bc of the color of her skin. She was guilty. Like Carsi said you went home every night and you never told anyone. Never called the police nothing. Then when her life was on the line she wanted to tell on them. She liked the life and she wanted to be there.

Worst Episode Ever!! Infuriating!

[e_fins · 1/10 · 19 November 2021]

Okay, I'm a typical "white girl", and what I have to say about this episode is it's utterly ridiculous that girl Tori is not rotting in prison! She was clearly a "good white girl" who had a safe home who went looking for trouble. She directly instigated multiple murders. Maybe Tori was truly beat up in the beginning, but she went back for more! Just like Carisi said in court - she was never trapped in a room, she never did anything with a gun to her head. She went home at the end of the night and slept in her own bed and went to school the next day, and obviously not bothered about what she'd done cause she's making all A's. She even took a two week VACATION to another COUNTRY but still went back for more trouble!!

Meanwhile, Jasmine, a young girl of color, is automatically assumed she's a perpetrator and thrown in jail. Like there's no way she could be a victim. Yes, she was also complicit, but if Tori is out free, than Jasmine should be too. And I'm betting Jasmine didn't have a safe home to go to the next day like Tori did.

The sickest thing about this episode is how Olivia, Amanda, and the new guy are sticking up for Tori and trying to get her to cut a deal. Absolutely ludicrous. All the evidence was there - she started the entire thing and should be rotting in prison.

This episode was infuriating. My husband and I almost turned it off cause we couldn't stand that girl's sob story. She was just trying to save her own skin. She should be glad I wasn't in that jury cause I would've determined her guilty 100 percent.

It really sickens me how Olivia couldn't see that Tori's a psycho. Like, it makes me not want to watch the rest of the season. Very disappointed in all the writers and producers.

Teases Being Complex, Then Just Falls Back Into the Usual Pablum

[bkkaz · 2/10 · 12 November 2021]

Remember when SVU was about the police investigating the crime, some believing the accused might be innocent, some believing the accused might be guilty, but ultimately tackling the case not as advocates but as truthseekers? Yeah, those days are long gone. Now, it's a foregone conclusion whoever the SVU team decides is innocent must be -- no matter how much the evidence stacks against them -- and anybody standing in their way is the enemy.

That's the gist of this turgid episode, where a gang of rapping idiots turns into a gang of idiot thieves and murderers. One them is left behind after a home invasion gone wrong, and even though people were murdered and violence was dispensed and the young woman in custody clearly helped instigate it as a honey trap for one of the victims, SVU decides she's the real victim.

Its declines quickly from there, with some scene-chewing by Carisi to appease his bosses, who chew scenery to show how heartless they must be.

I hear they're bringing the original Law and Order back. If so, I hope the people working on this show have nothing to do with it.

WHITE ENTITLEMENT AT IT WORST

[bkbullyboyz · 1/10 · 16 June 2023]

The writers got it all wrong here. #HORRIBLE. If the roles/race were reversed I'm quite sure this episode would have went completely different. Ironically, the black men were even silenced never had the opportunity to give or state their case. It's was all about white women and how they're a victim when often they're the true villains. Shame on SUV, my favorite show but this episode left me highly disappointed. Clearly, showed not enough non people of color in the writers room & fragile Caucasian in its worst form. To the point it almost made me NOT want to watch any longer but season 22 first episode OPENED eyes.

Rebranding?

[scribblebytes · 3/10 · 21 April 2022]

This was a fantastic episode of SVU if they are looking to Rebrand. I enjoyed the Aaron Spelling quality to this episode. It had a very feel-good atmosphere. The music was different, more inspiring and the main character arcs were a lot less dynamic, which is good in the post-2020 world we live in. This was a nice light one. That 180° turn at end was astonishingly heart-warming.

(The only reason I'm giving it a 3 is because it is off-brand to the original SVU. The normal SVU is Neo Noir. So because of the genre switch I have to follow the Scribbs 25 Manifesto and mark you down 7 points).

Special BLM Victims

[GomezAddams666 · 1/10 · 14 November 2021]

This show has started to turn on trafficking victims, they rather show black rapists as the true victims.

A very bad entry, the worst episode on the entire series.

Close to being cancelled

[damianfallon5 · 1/10 · 28 March 2023]

Yet another truly appalling episode for a program with six good seasons but one which has gone steadily downhill ever since . If the " writers " were aiming for virtue signalling, they missed . I say ' writers ' but this drivel could have been cobbled together on the back of a cigarette packet, it really is nauseating how St Olivia and her gang can suddenly jump to a completely baseless conclusion without any evidence simply because a killer flutters their eyelashes. It's also a terrible advert for the NYPD and the American justice system as a whole . If this is how it goes then God help us all . It seems reasonable to suppose this series cannot go on much longer if this is the standard so see it while you can , but view it as a comedy or a spoof.