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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Countdown (2001)
Time is running out
Without giving away plot ruining spoilers, the squad figures out that their dealing with a serial killer(cold cases help them figure out that this wasn't a stranger snatch and grab like they originally thought)...The unsub spends 72 hours(about 3 days) with each victim before he/she kills them. So it ends up being a race against the clock episode, which makes it very exciting and drama filled, cause there's no time to waste.
They gotta figure out, The Who, how, what, why(youd rather not even wanna know the why... but the why could lead to The Who...so the cops gotta know why or speculate as to why) and then the where(once you know The Who, the where becomes a lot easier).
So the squad dives right in, and they Find a lot of these answers(partially anyway) out because they have a witness who got way....but without giving away spoilers....the victim is like 8 so she doesn't give them much of anything especially pertaining to the where, what, Who, why and how....and the mom cuts the interview short....so they gotta go back to the drawing board and pretty much start from scratch...
See, no spoilers... So go watch....
But as far as the episode, I love the race against the clock theme going on....and the speed, in which they have to move, in order to catch The unsub( cause to call him human just seems wrong) but the sad truth is there are people like him lurking around everywhere...
Anyways great episode. I love the mystery surrounding it. It's got like a cat and mouse feel to it. There another episode like this one too. I forget the season but the unsub leaves behind clues and hints on how to catch him. It's got that mysterious vibe, and leaving behind the whole "who done it" vibe in that episode too. I love when you don't know who the bad guy is, until the end...and during the show, they throw in the false leads....And Then pretty soon the whole audience is trying to figure out who really did it lol Yeah, Sometimes they make it too obvious but when it's done right, it's rewarding when you figure it, especially when the detectives in the show/movie were wrong...Anyways I'm way off topic lol great episode!
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Paranoia (2001)
Excellent episode
This is the kind of episode, where you really have to pay attention too or you'll miss little details here & there, that have significant meaning later. The acting is superb, as usual. A cop is attacked and sexually assaulted in this one. Which is pretty rare in SVU episodes, especially in the older ones. Business women, house wives, college & high school students, kids(which are the worst) but rarely cops...But Olivia is at odds. The victim (who happens to be Olivia's training officer and helped mold Olivia into the brilliant, bad*** we see today lol) changes her story all of sudden....and then recants her entire assault. (Which the audience is shown parts of, at the beginning of the show, so we know something went down). So Olivia can either play ball and drop it, and turn a blind eye to a friend/colleague (even at her request)....Or she can do what Olivia does, and what her training officer taught her to do, and that's use her skills and get to the truth despite all the "blue line" crap. And investigate...."Ya know" what cops are suppose to do lol. Every SVU fan already knows the answer to this. No "spoiler" disclaimer needed
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Intimidation Game (2015)
Way to much hate on a episode
This episode is filled with action and is personally one of my favs. It's almost like a group of people, who thought the episode was stereotypical, got together and started a chain reaction of negative reviews. Which in a way, a lot of the negative reviews, are doing exactly what they claim this episode did...judge... Law & order takes issues, of all types, and magnify them. They turn up the volume to the maximum Threshold. They do this for awareness purposes, exposure purposes/teaching purposes, and for entertainment purposes....To heighten the drama(Ratings are a must--which is why the show is so popular and successful). The show aims to get people talking....This episode clearly did..but for all the wrong reasons. This episode is not making fun of gamers or stereotyping them. Now clearly not everyone who's a gamer speak or dress the part...But to act like there isn't a gaming sub culture out there especially in a city like New York is naive.I guarantee most of us know or at one point knew someone who took games way too seriously.(like the clowns In this episode) I have. Now people of all kinds snap....regular people, crazy people...so who's to say a gamer couldn't snap too. Add stress, insomnia, tragedy that can go down..Which is the whole point of this episode. These fools are mad at the world... and instead of the usual excuses we see in episodes of law and order....we get a new concept, these rogue gamers who blame women and women gamers for their problems. Law and order wasn't trying to stereotype gamers or women in gaming.... it took a a social topic and brought awareness to it, by turning it up a 100 degrees(like it has for many of the shows and topics it tackles)