This episode is one of the most compelling in SVU's amazing history. The storyline is gripping and thought provoking (thank you to the writers!) and the acting stellar. Wonderful to see Demore Barnes again!
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Tangled Strands of Justice (2022)
User Reviews
Review this title10 Reviews
Twenty-three Seasons and Still Going Strong
rockinrobyns30 April 2022
This is what I'm here for!
vschrock-425-8467712 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Benson goes head to head with Dodds' real-world wife in a showdown we didn't know we needed. And, with a little help from Lorraine Maxwell, she successfully addresses a massive abuse of the criminal justice system in a tight 42 mins.
Garland is Back!
shelbythuylinh1 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
He should never had been let go. He is back after a case that has in a cold case in the day before 9/11 the day that changed the USA forever, a pregnant girl is found and that he was a rookie back then.
Meanwhile Garland interviews the grandparents as one of them has a secret life. The girl that was found murdered in the river, was pregnant as mentioned but she was says her colleagues all about work and education and that she may had been raped against her will.
Meanwhile, Carisi is faced with a very fragile case with a woman who was recently arrested. And a hostile detective that gives the SVU squad an attitude in trying to protect her own turf.
But the squad is all about putting the victim first and foremost. The woman arrested was a victim and has since gone to the dogs.
As the hostile detective that did something illegal but felt she needed to get DNA as you have to sign off on it through protocol. Olivia and the detective butt heads that comes to such a huge screeching halt!
Flaws that need to be about solving them instead of pointing fingers.
Meanwhile Garland interviews the grandparents as one of them has a secret life. The girl that was found murdered in the river, was pregnant as mentioned but she was says her colleagues all about work and education and that she may had been raped against her will.
Meanwhile, Carisi is faced with a very fragile case with a woman who was recently arrested. And a hostile detective that gives the SVU squad an attitude in trying to protect her own turf.
But the squad is all about putting the victim first and foremost. The woman arrested was a victim and has since gone to the dogs.
As the hostile detective that did something illegal but felt she needed to get DNA as you have to sign off on it through protocol. Olivia and the detective butt heads that comes to such a huge screeching halt!
Flaws that need to be about solving them instead of pointing fingers.
One of the best
miguelufrrj26 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Surprisingly one of the best SVU episodes to date this late on the 23rd season. Both storylines are engaging and complex. Nice twist at the end. The whole point of not using DNA evidence against rape victims (yes, even if they're guilty) was brilliantly conveyed. The discussion scene between Benson and the other detective was awesome. People complain about her being "too woke", but she was totally in the right here. Nice and original stoyline for a change.
Order and Law : Discover Flaw / Create Flaw
yazguloner29 April 2022
Thank goodness, It was part of the Svu flavor and the Olivia spirit.
The entrance is impressive. The subject is a major one. It is major in stories. It is major in recurring roles with the return of Garland, Dr. Truman. And the events have traces of old major cases. Psychopath Henry Mesner (14×19, 22x14)... Recurring lawyer Dara Miglani (Mouzam Makkar) recalls her earlier character. She is the protagonist of the episode where game lovers attacked and gave the lowest rating in Svu history, because she emphasized gender discrimination in games. (Intimidation game 16x14)
The story is about "unauthorized" research and use of a rape kit as DNA evidence in major cases. Olivia tries to prevent sensitive lunatics like the rape kit from being turned against the victim.
Unfortunately, she encounters a strict attitude in the Order area. In particular, they clash with detective Szabo and her boss.
In the field of Law, there is a strong point originating from the Order. Olivia rises with Lorainne performances.
Szabo, Grandpa Green, Dora, Nina, Libby guest stars are beautiful. The family history is tragic. I wanted to believe in your grandfather's accident. So when I heard their words from Svu squad and Lorraine, he got his strict punishment at the end, I was shocked. I think it's as strict as the attitude of detective Zsabo and her boss to this family tragedy. It seems that more time is needed for joint repair.
Nevertheless, the article has written a solid chapter. Always Law must come before order. Order must be bound by Law. For justice.
The entrance is impressive. The subject is a major one. It is major in stories. It is major in recurring roles with the return of Garland, Dr. Truman. And the events have traces of old major cases. Psychopath Henry Mesner (14×19, 22x14)... Recurring lawyer Dara Miglani (Mouzam Makkar) recalls her earlier character. She is the protagonist of the episode where game lovers attacked and gave the lowest rating in Svu history, because she emphasized gender discrimination in games. (Intimidation game 16x14)
The story is about "unauthorized" research and use of a rape kit as DNA evidence in major cases. Olivia tries to prevent sensitive lunatics like the rape kit from being turned against the victim.
Unfortunately, she encounters a strict attitude in the Order area. In particular, they clash with detective Szabo and her boss.
In the field of Law, there is a strong point originating from the Order. Olivia rises with Lorainne performances.
Szabo, Grandpa Green, Dora, Nina, Libby guest stars are beautiful. The family history is tragic. I wanted to believe in your grandfather's accident. So when I heard their words from Svu squad and Lorraine, he got his strict punishment at the end, I was shocked. I think it's as strict as the attitude of detective Zsabo and her boss to this family tragedy. It seems that more time is needed for joint repair.
Nevertheless, the article has written a solid chapter. Always Law must come before order. Order must be bound by Law. For justice.
Still Lumpy but Calls Benson's Hypocrisy Out (and then quickly retreats)
bkkaz29 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
One of the vomit-inducing qualities of SVU in the past 5-10 years has been the nauseating fawning over Olivia Benson. Once Stabler left, her character was largely without purpose, like a stamp without an envelope, and Danny Pino was no Christopher Meloni. But when Pino left, things got even worse. It was clear the writers -- perhaps with Hargitay's arm twisting as a producer -- decided every episode would sing Benson's priases, as well as put her on the course to being super woke.
Yuck.
Not only is all that just patronizing and bootlicking, it also completely erased Benson's checkered past. Keep in mind just some of her many transgressions:
1) Sleeping with co-workers.
2) Sleeping with superiors.
3) Lying to get the ME to do a DNA check on her brother.
4) Lying to get classified information to a journalist.
5) Badgering and threatening witnesses.
6) Badgering and threatening interrogees.
7) Beating a perpetrator nearly to death.
8) Abusing a convicted felon by telling him not only is he going to get raped in prison, she hopes it happens -- this is not the first time Benson has decided that rape is okay if it happens to prisoners behind bars.
So, when this episode has a tough-as-nails cop that doesn't take Benson throwing her holier-than-thou weight around, she turns it on Benson. It's the "Say something now, you big hypocrite" moment many of us have been waiting for.
Unfortunately, and predictably, it doesn't last. No, this isn't a wake up call for Benson to take her moralizing down a notch and to stop all the performative wokeness rather than work on her own flaws and past first. It's just a fleeting moment of potential drama -- real drama, like the old series occasionally had -- to quickly be replaced by business as usual. No, Benson can never have to own up to her foibles. That would somehow make her less than Lifetime movie perfect.
Worse, this one also has the Lorraine Maxwell character, played with the sort of amateur-hour blandness one expects from someone's grandma being given a speaking part. I'm told this is some famous Broadway actress in the role. Seriously? You must be kidding. When she opens her eyes wide, though, she does kinda remind me of the actor who played Alfred in the old Batman TV show. There is that.
That guy who played the boss for a while is back, too. He was neither here nor there to me, as memorable as the rest of the rotating cast of unknowns the show conveyor belted in more recently.
So, this one gets an extra star for someone actually telling Benson off even if it's more than a decade overdue -- but then that star gets taken away for not having the courage to let Benson stew in her juices for a bit. No, she's as just as high and mighty by the end if not worse.
Womp, womp.
Yuck.
Not only is all that just patronizing and bootlicking, it also completely erased Benson's checkered past. Keep in mind just some of her many transgressions:
1) Sleeping with co-workers.
2) Sleeping with superiors.
3) Lying to get the ME to do a DNA check on her brother.
4) Lying to get classified information to a journalist.
5) Badgering and threatening witnesses.
6) Badgering and threatening interrogees.
7) Beating a perpetrator nearly to death.
8) Abusing a convicted felon by telling him not only is he going to get raped in prison, she hopes it happens -- this is not the first time Benson has decided that rape is okay if it happens to prisoners behind bars.
So, when this episode has a tough-as-nails cop that doesn't take Benson throwing her holier-than-thou weight around, she turns it on Benson. It's the "Say something now, you big hypocrite" moment many of us have been waiting for.
Unfortunately, and predictably, it doesn't last. No, this isn't a wake up call for Benson to take her moralizing down a notch and to stop all the performative wokeness rather than work on her own flaws and past first. It's just a fleeting moment of potential drama -- real drama, like the old series occasionally had -- to quickly be replaced by business as usual. No, Benson can never have to own up to her foibles. That would somehow make her less than Lifetime movie perfect.
Worse, this one also has the Lorraine Maxwell character, played with the sort of amateur-hour blandness one expects from someone's grandma being given a speaking part. I'm told this is some famous Broadway actress in the role. Seriously? You must be kidding. When she opens her eyes wide, though, she does kinda remind me of the actor who played Alfred in the old Batman TV show. There is that.
That guy who played the boss for a while is back, too. He was neither here nor there to me, as memorable as the rest of the rotating cast of unknowns the show conveyor belted in more recently.
So, this one gets an extra star for someone actually telling Benson off even if it's more than a decade overdue -- but then that star gets taken away for not having the courage to let Benson stew in her juices for a bit. No, she's as just as high and mighty by the end if not worse.
Womp, womp.
Captain high and mighty
johnnyboygrant27 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Once again Benson is on the unjustified high moral ground. I am so tired of her looking down her nose at everyone who doesn't have the exact same views as her. If a victim commits a crime he or she is just like every other criminal. I see nothing wrong with using DNA to catch criminals no matter how the DNA is collected. If a person is worried about their sample being used then do not commit a crime. Is it really that difficult. Being a victim does not give you a free pass to break the law. It is time for Hargitay to move on. Or stop her from using L&O SVU as her soap box and get back to the old SVU. When it was good!
No, this time I was not with Benson
cmmsobral7 October 2022
Well it seems that for Benson a victim must be protected also if it becames a criminal. Suggesting that the DNA of a criminal cannot be used, only because it was taken when that criminal was a victim, is not only insane, it's hedious. When will these people understand that every means must be used to find a criminal? Rights of the criminal? When do these people understand that a criminal should have no rights, since it didn't respect the rights of the victim? Well, but the return of Garland was good. He is one million times better than the actual Benson's chief a complete stupid guy. Well, but this still a great show.
Still on the male bashing trend
charleswx-431271 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I get it, most sexual assaults are committed by males. But, does every episode have to be a male assaulting, murdering, raping, kidnapping, stalking a female? Females never do any of those things? It just gets old with the number of ways that they can show us that men are perpetrators and women are victims.
Also, the few times that a female does commit a crime, they either find a loophole to get them off (which is what happened in this episode) or, plot twist, the bad man made them do it. Go figure.
At one time, L&O SVU was 2nd best only to L&O. Sadly, it has fallen far from that pedestal because it wants to be woke and cater only to 1/2 of the population.
Also, the few times that a female does commit a crime, they either find a loophole to get them off (which is what happened in this episode) or, plot twist, the bad man made them do it. Go figure.
At one time, L&O SVU was 2nd best only to L&O. Sadly, it has fallen far from that pedestal because it wants to be woke and cater only to 1/2 of the population.
See also
Awards | FAQ | User Ratings | External Reviews | Metacritic Reviews
