This is another SVU episode you should not be watching after having a few beers. There are so many things up in the air that it's hard to keep up. In the end, the mystery is solved but I found myself too winded to appreciate it.
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SVU meets The Room
soapytiger21 September 2020
Mostly, I'm riveted by how acting by the actress playing Sunny (Shohreh Aghdashloo) feels so much like Tommy Wiseau. Short bursts of dialogue, purposely overly dramatic, unconventional delivery. She steals every scene shes in, she does not share.
To rise in an institution as a woman
yazguloner10 July 2021
It is a story with Olivia at the center.
Shohreh Aghdashloo (Detective Sunny Qadri) is an impressive actress, an impressive voice. Very charismatic...
You try to justify her even if she is bad in the role she plays. Like Mariska...
She plays both the bad and the good with the best performance until the end. I think she should appear more in law and detective films...
Shohreh Aghdashloo (Detective Sunny Qadri) is an impressive actress, an impressive voice. Very charismatic...
You try to justify her even if she is bad in the role she plays. Like Mariska...
She plays both the bad and the good with the best performance until the end. I think she should appear more in law and detective films...
Mariska Hargitay Gets a Run for Her Money.
ScottAmundsen11 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Iranian-born actress Shohreh Aghdashloo plays Detective Sunny Qadri of Brooklyn SVU. Sunny is an intense, driven woman very much like Olivia Benson; "Dirty" brings the two characters together in a tense and impressive episode involving the murder of a Brooklyn ADA and the investigation that follows.
I don't want to give much away; suffice it to say that Aghdashloo's performance here impressed me so much that I ordered a couple of her movies from Netflix.
Now I wish we had seen more of this remarkable actress. She is every inch as powerful in her role as Hargitay is in hers, and watching the tension build between the two women is both intriguing and entertaining.
This is one of the best episodes of that season.
I don't want to give much away; suffice it to say that Aghdashloo's performance here impressed me so much that I ordered a couple of her movies from Netflix.
Now I wish we had seen more of this remarkable actress. She is every inch as powerful in her role as Hargitay is in hers, and watching the tension build between the two women is both intriguing and entertaining.
This is one of the best episodes of that season.
Dirty rotten scoundrel
TheLittleSongbird1 June 2022
"Dirty" was one of the Season 12, and actually even 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' in general, episodes to do very little to nothing for me on first watch. Just to say that this is not coming from someone hating on every episode, the show has a lot of episodes ranging between decent and brilliant (Season 6 having the highest number of the latter). And every season has at least one great one, despite being hit and miss since Season 7.
On re-watch, "Dirty" still does very little for me and it still holds my distinction as one of the worst episodes of Season 12 (the first less than average one). It is the lowest rated episode of the season and in my mind it is not hard to see why, due to it not grabbing me, having one particularly annoying character and also not feeling like 'Special Victims Unit' (something that was not uncommon in the mid-late seasons of 'Special Victims Unit'.
There are good things about "Dirty". Mariska Hargitay does intense and sympathetic so well and Olivia is on top form, in a way that is closer to early seasons Olivia than the Olivia she became when she was promoted a few seasons later. The other standout performance comes from a truly creepy Doug Drucker.
Production values sometimes are still slick and suitably gritty (without being too heavy in it). The music is not too melodramatic and is not used too much, even not being too manipulative in revelations. The direction has its moments. The episode also starts off quite well.
Unfortunately, a vast majority of the case is tension free and thin, which made the pace dull and it could easily have been solved much earlier than it was. A prime example being the truth about the assault. It didn't feel like 'Special Victims Unit' also to me, more like 'Los Angeles' (a show that didn't click with me), due to the crime not fitting what the show is all about. The reason for why the crime was committed agreed could have been much clearer.
Sunny is very annoying and overacted to the skies. She and Olivia don't gel well together, due to their methods being so different in a way that is completely discordant. Only half the regulars feature and of those that are present only Olivia is not underused. The dialogue is cheesy, especially Sunny's, while the supporting cast is forgettable other than Drucker and too much of the direction is leaden and unimaginative. Did also find some of the camera work too indulgent and gimmicky, too many head shots which cheapens the style.
Concluding, didn't work. 4/10.
On re-watch, "Dirty" still does very little for me and it still holds my distinction as one of the worst episodes of Season 12 (the first less than average one). It is the lowest rated episode of the season and in my mind it is not hard to see why, due to it not grabbing me, having one particularly annoying character and also not feeling like 'Special Victims Unit' (something that was not uncommon in the mid-late seasons of 'Special Victims Unit'.
There are good things about "Dirty". Mariska Hargitay does intense and sympathetic so well and Olivia is on top form, in a way that is closer to early seasons Olivia than the Olivia she became when she was promoted a few seasons later. The other standout performance comes from a truly creepy Doug Drucker.
Production values sometimes are still slick and suitably gritty (without being too heavy in it). The music is not too melodramatic and is not used too much, even not being too manipulative in revelations. The direction has its moments. The episode also starts off quite well.
Unfortunately, a vast majority of the case is tension free and thin, which made the pace dull and it could easily have been solved much earlier than it was. A prime example being the truth about the assault. It didn't feel like 'Special Victims Unit' also to me, more like 'Los Angeles' (a show that didn't click with me), due to the crime not fitting what the show is all about. The reason for why the crime was committed agreed could have been much clearer.
Sunny is very annoying and overacted to the skies. She and Olivia don't gel well together, due to their methods being so different in a way that is completely discordant. Only half the regulars feature and of those that are present only Olivia is not underused. The dialogue is cheesy, especially Sunny's, while the supporting cast is forgettable other than Drucker and too much of the direction is leaden and unimaginative. Did also find some of the camera work too indulgent and gimmicky, too many head shots which cheapens the style.
Concluding, didn't work. 4/10.
Unclear motives
bkoganbing5 November 2013
An interesting plot situation gets muddled in the writing in this SVU episode. I'm not quite sure that the villain of the piece had a female colleague and supervisor in the Kings County DA's office where the victim was a police detective. But as the crime took place in Manhattan where she fell from a building it was Manhattan's SVU case.
The story involves the Latin Kings gang and a corrupt cop who protects one of Kingpins for some valuable information. That person does the deed, but there's someone behind it.
The motivations to me remain unclear as far as why this woman had to be killed, was it jealousy or corruption or a little of both. Still hardcore SVU viewers might like it.
The story involves the Latin Kings gang and a corrupt cop who protects one of Kingpins for some valuable information. That person does the deed, but there's someone behind it.
The motivations to me remain unclear as far as why this woman had to be killed, was it jealousy or corruption or a little of both. Still hardcore SVU viewers might like it.
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