As Fin tries to get justice after his gay son's fiancé is brutally beaten in a hate crime, SVU uncovers a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing a student at a prep school.As Fin tries to get justice after his gay son's fiancé is brutally beaten in a hate crime, SVU uncovers a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing a student at a prep school.As Fin tries to get justice after his gay son's fiancé is brutally beaten in a hate crime, SVU uncovers a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing a student at a prep school.
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- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
- Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen
- (credit only)
- Alejandro Pavel
- (as Miguel Govea)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAs of January 2021, only credited acting role of Martha Stewart in which she does not play herself.
- GoofsDuring the hostage scene at the school one of the NYPD's ESU (Emergency Services Unit) snipers is holding his rifle in a completely incorrect manner (the ESU is the NYPD's SWAT unit). He has the stock resting on his left shoulder, indicating he is left-handed, yet has his right hand on the trigger. A person who is a skilled marksmen, especially a professional sharpshooter like a SWAT sniper, always shoots on their dominant side. A left-handed person would hold the stock of a rifle on their left shoulder and use their right hand to hold the forward grip and their left hand to pull the trigger. Plus the rifle is clearly designed for a right-handed shooter as the action opens from the right, a left-handed SWAT sniper would always use a rifle designed for a left-handed shooter.
- Quotes
Odafin Tutuola: [while visiting Ken's fiance, Alejandro in the hospital] Thought I'd let you know the guys you IDed, we got 'em. They're going down for federal hate crimes, and they're never getting out. Since you're gonna be my son-in-law, I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to meet before this.
"Learning Curve" is not quite the worst episode of Season 13, my vote for that dubious dishonour goes to "Strange Beauty", but it was a case of a quite intriguing premise executed in a messy and majorly flawed fashion. Well more than just messy, more all over the shop and one of the worst cases of the season's disappointments of trying too hard. There are things that "Learning Curve" does quite well, though these aspects were done better in other episodes, but the many major problems sadly stand out more.
The good things will be started off with. The production values 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.
Although "Learning Curve" has a lot of flaws, the performances of the regular cast are far from being among them with no exception. The chemistry doesn't look disconnected and it's cohesive. The episode does start off intriguingly with quite a neat set up.
It is very annoying however that it went quite quickly downhill drastically and never really recovered. There are too many characters and too many plot strands with too little done with all. The first crime is treated in too throwaway a fashion, resolved too quickly and too early and then discarded. The more prominent crime, which felt like another story entirely, is also over stuffed to the point of muddled later on and bland.
Did think too that the over obviousness of the perpetrator's identity which is also too prematurely revealed takes away from any tension. Pacing throughout is pretty dull. The supporting cast have to work against very one dimensional characters and come over as forgettable. The dialogue is too often stilted and needed to be tighter and edgier.
Overall, lacklustre and all over the place. 4/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Jun 24, 2022
Details
- Runtime44 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD