Law & Order: SVU – Recap & Review – Rhodium Nights

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Law & Order: SVU
Rhodium Nights

Original Air Date: May 23, 2012

Caitlin – Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

Two things to consider before I start this recap- first, the writers already seem to have outdone themselves packing weirdness into the last few episodes. Second, this is a season finale. Proceed with that in mind.

A guy finds a girl dead in his bed during his bachelor party. The first problem comes when he tells police that he found her drowned in his pool. The second comes when we learn he’s the police commissioner’s son.

Law & Order: SVU – Recap & Review – Strange Beauty

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Law & Order: SVU
Strange Beauty

Original Air Date: May 16, 2012

Caitlin – Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

Every so often, the SVU writers decide that rapists and serial killers are too run-of-the-mill. When that happens, we get storylines like this one, based around severed limbs. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Amanda is playing pool at a bar with Fin and Nick. The men head off just as her old captain shows up. After he flirts with her, she takes a moment to go outside and sees a cab speed by with a screaming girl trapped inside.

Law & Order: SVU – Recap & Review – Learning Curve

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Law & Order: SVU
Learning Curve

Original Air Date: May 9, 2012

Caitlin – Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

When SVU brings in a personal storyline for one of its characters, it usually does so by connecting it to a case. This is true with Fin’s son Ken. Unfortunately, there’s a bit too much of the case and too little screentime for him.

Munch actually gets something to do here. He’s the one Ken first goes to before announcing that he and his boyfriend, Alejandro, are engaged. But later that night, Alejandro is grabbed by a gang with a baseball bat.

Law & Order: SVU – Recap & Review – Father Dearest

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Law & Order: SVU
Father Dearest

Original Air Date: May 2, 2012

Caitlin – Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

The first scene of this episode involves a small child smeared with his mother’s blood. And that doesn’t even begin to touch how twisted things get. This is one of those episodes where the writers seem determined to outdo themselves.

A young boy, Sam, calls 911, saying his mom is hurt. The operator tracks the cell phone and Olivia and Nick find Sam, covered in blood. Still, his mother isn’t dead, though she is unconscious from a head injury.

Law & Order: SVU – Recap & Review – Street Revenge

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Law & Order: SVU
Street Revenge

Original Air Date: Apr 25, 2012

Caitlin – Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

As someone clueless about pop culture, I hate to use the phrase “unless you’ve been living under a rock”, but that’s about the only reason I can come up with why you wouldn’t know about the film The Avengers.

Why do I mention this? Because this week’s episode is as close as SVU gets to a tie-in. By that, I mean a group of self-proclaimed vigilante heroes does more harm than good. Because what else would you expect?

Law & Order: SVU – Recap & Review – Valentine’s Day

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Law & Order: SVU
Valentine’s Day

Original Air Date: Apr 18, 2012

Caitlin – Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

This episode of SVU involves sex, lies, manipulation, and all around awful behavior. Which is all pretty standard here, but in this case it’s coming from an unexpected source. And that’s…still pretty standard here.

A man on business travel stops to video chat with his wife, saying he’ll be home early for Valentine’s Day. Before they can celebrate, she goes to answer the door and is chased inside by a masked man

Law & Order: SVU – Recap & Review – Justice Denied

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Law & Order: SVU
Justice Denied

Original Air Date: Apr 11, 2012

Caitlin – Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

After a month and a half of reruns, SVU finally returns with new episodes for the rest of the season. Olivia might not be so happy, though. As happened once with Elliot, she learns she may have put away an innocent man.

At first, the chances seem slim. The accused represents himself in court, and his appeal is struck down. Later, though, a rape case turns up-while he’s in prison- that resembles the crime he supposedly committed.

Law & Order: SVU – Recap & Review – Child’s Welfare

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Law & Order: SVU
Child’s Welfare

Original Air Date: Feb 29, 2012

Caitlin – Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

This week’s opening is, though disturbing, not too unusual for this show. A young woman gives birth in what might be an abandoned building, but the baby boy is taken from her and later found on the streets.

But maybe it’s a very special- by SVU standards- Leap Day episode, because we also see Simon, Olivia’s half brother. He’s married, apparently, and has kids. Then the kids are taken away by child services. He begs Olivia to help get them back.

Law & Order: SVU – Recap & Review – Hunting Ground

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Law & Order: SVU
Hunting Ground

Original Air Date: Feb 22, 2012

Caitlin – Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s been a while since we’ve had a good old-fashioned serial killer on SVU. Tonight, we correct that oversight. And yes, I did just use the phrase “good old fashioned serial killer”. Again, it’s Law & Order: SVU.

We open with Olivia and ADA Haden on a date. While they’re debating how quickly to take things, though, a girl working as an escort is getting into a client’s car, and soon being taken away against her will.

Law & Order: SVU – Recap & Review – Home Invasions

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Law & Order: SVU
Home Invasions

Original Air Date: Feb 15, 2012

Caitlin – Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

We’ve often had character development on SVU through the detectives’ connections to cases. Amanda gets a turn here, though by the end of this episode, it might be difficult to remember just what that connection was.

A woman opens the door of her home to be shot dead. The shooter kills her husband as well, and leaves their daughter shot in the head. Her boyfriend and his father show up, the former blaming the latter for what happened.