Law and Order - Recap & Review - Selfish

Law and Order: SVU
Selfish

Original Air Date: April 28, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, the episode starts out with a ripped from the headlines story that is uncomfortably similar to the Caylee Anthony tragedy. Hilary Duff guest stars as Ashlee Walker, the young mother of baby Sierra who claims she left her baby with a babysitter. Her mother (guest star Gail O’Grady) goes to the Special Victims Unit when she hasn’t seen her granddaughter in days and doesn’t believe the babysitter story.

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Law & Order - Recap & Review - Baggage

Law and Order: SVU
Baggage

Original Air Date: April 7, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, Stabler and Fin investigate a serial murderer and rapist who tortures his victims. Detective Moran (Delroy Lindo) from the Major Crimes Unit shows up, claiming this is his case and that he works alone. Stabler’s never one to back down and works the case with Moran and Fin.

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Law & Order - Recap & Review - Hell

Law and Order: SVU
“Hell”

Original Air Date: March 31, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, a young girl, Miriam, is found by a homeless man with her throat slit. The detectives find out through a doctor’s exam that she’s had a history of sexual violence. She can’t speak but when they ask her to draw a picture of who did it to her, she draws a picture of the devil. The case leads the detectives into the world of children who are forced to be soldiers in Uganda.

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Law and Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Ballerina

Law and Order: SVU
Ballerina

Original Air Date: Mar 17, 2000

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com


This week, the detectives investigate the murder of a dancer and eventually, the murder of her murderer. Confused yet? Carol Burnett guest stars as Birdie Sulloway, a former dancer and star who lives with her nephew, Chet, played by Matthew Lillard. Things start going downhill when her newest husband ends up dead.

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Law And Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Lead

Law and Order: SVU
“Lead”

Original Air Date: March 10, 2009

Kara – Sr Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, the episode starts out at trial, where a pediatrician is convicted on four counts of molesting teenage boys. The doctor soon ends up very, very dead, shot in the knee and bludgeoned with a golf club to the point where there’s blood spatter everywhere. Blame gets pointed everywhere, from the hospital that may or may not have known about him molesting patients to the patients themselves and their parents. This episode also marks the long-awaited return of a familiar face.

Five Notable Things About This Week’s Episode:

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Law & Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Transitions

Law & Order: SVU
Transitions

Original Air Date: Feb 17, 2009

Kara – Senior Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com


This week, a man is attacked outside of a strip club and the detectives tie the incident to his teenage son, Henry, who is transgendered and lives as Haley. Haley’s father disapproves of her using hormone blockers, causing a world of emotional pain in Haley’s life and the detectives set about sorting everything out. Along the way, they find out about an organization that works as a support group for transgendered teens and Haley’s sympathetic guidance counselor, Miss Blaine.

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Law & Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Snatched

Law and Order: SVU
Snatched

Original Air Date: Feb 3, 2009

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, a little girl named Rosie gets kidnapped when a man pretending to be a cop is let into the apartment by the babysitter. Stabler teams up with the girl’s father, who is also an ex-con, to try to find the girl. There’s no A.D.A. Grayleck and Olivia is mostly absent this week but we did get to see the ever elusive Dr. Huang for a few minutes. Where have you gone to, B.D. Wong?

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Law & Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Hothouse

Law and Order: SVU
Hothouse

Original Air Date: 13 Jan 2009

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com


A fourteen year old girl is found dead in the Hudson River and is first thought to be a victim of human trafficking. When Benson and Stabler discover she is actually a child prodigy, they investigate the world of an elite academy for extremely intelligent children and the intense pressure put on the children by both the academy and their own parents.

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Law & Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Stranger

Law & Order: SVU
Stranger

Original Air Date: 6 Jan 2009

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, a teenage girl shows up on her family’s doorstep after an absence of four years. The detectives are called in when she claims to have been kept as a sex slave. Benson and Stabler find out she’s not the missing girl she says she is but the investigation doesn’t end there.

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Law and Order: SVU - Recap & Review - "PTSD"

Law and Order: SVU
PTSD

Original Air Date: 3 Dec 2008

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, Stabler is off recuperating from being shot, I hope and so Benson teams up with Fin to investigate the death of a pregnant marine who had been raped. They get met with a lot of red tape, thanks to the armed forces having their own justice system.

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Law and Order: Special Victims Unit - Recap & Review - "Persona"

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
Persona

Original Air Date: 15 Nov 2008

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

Olivia gets involved in a case where a young woman (Clea DuVall) claims she’s been raped by a stranger and is horribly beaten. She quickly discovers it’s the woman’s husband who is the abuser but Olivia has trouble convincing the woman and her downstairs neighbor (Brenda Blethyn) to let her help.

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Law and Order: Special Victims Unit - Recap & Review - "Wildlife"

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
Wildlife

Original Air Date: 18 Nov 2008

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

Elliot finds himself undercover in an animal smuggling ring and it puts both him and his marriage in danger. It’s got everything to ensure it’s a crazy episode: tigers and hyenas and psychotic animal dealers, oh my! Oh, come on. I couldn’t resist.

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Law and Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Babes

Law and Order: SVU
“Babes”

Original Air Date: Nov 11, 2008

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

In classic SVU style, an episode that starts out with a castrated man on fire ends up being about a bunch of girls who make a pregnancy pact. Sound familiar? Madness breaks out when the lead girl commits suicide and the family finds out another girl’s mother was harassing her online that night. Debi Mazar, Jesse McCartney and Michael Badalucco guest star in this emotionally charged episode.

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Law and Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Retro

Law and Order: SVU
“Retro”

Original Air Date: Oct 28, 2008

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

Benson and Stabler’s investigation starts with a baby whose AIDS was not being treated and leads them to a doctor who tells his patients that HIV is not harmful and can be treated with yogurt. Yes, yogurt. Benson’s reaction when the doctor told her he had prescribed yogurt was absolutely priceless.

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Law and Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Lunacy

Law and Order: SVU
“Lunacy”

Original Air Date: Oct 21, 2008

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, James Brolin and Chris Elliot stop by and succeed in being distracting. It’s not their fault thought. SVU has fallen back into the same old routine of shoving guest stars and predictable twists at us and I think we deserve a bit better, don’t you?

Four Thoughts on This Week’s Episode:

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Law and Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Swing

Law and Order: SVU
“Swing”

Original Air Date: October 14, 2008

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

There’s a rule that we only get to look into Stabler’s family life once per season and this week, we definitely got a front row seat. His daughter, Kathleen, is found trespassing and showering in someone’s house and totally high on drugs. Turns out she’s self medicating and Stabler had no idea how far off the path his daughter had gone.

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Law and Order - Recap & Review - Confession

Law and Order: SVU
"Confession"

Original Air Date: Sept 30, 2008

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

A seventeen year old boy turns himself in to the Special Victims Unit because he's been having thoughts about his five year old step brother and is afraid he's going to act on it. Trouble is, there's no program he can go to until he does actually abuse a child. Olivia struggles to figure out what can be done and make sure the boy, Eric, hasn't assaulted his brother yet. Meanwhile, A.D.A. Grayleck is itching to take a case, any case to trial and is driving the detectives up the wall in the process.

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Law and Order: SVU - Recap & Review - Trials

Law and Order: SVU
“Trials”

Original Air Date: September 23, 2008

Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, we’ve got three knockout guest stars in an episode that starts out with a little boy stealing a van and driving it through the streets of NYC. He’s desperate to get away from his foster parents and we get a lesson in the world of paid medical trials but don’t think for a second that’s the twist. Our beloved detectives each have their own issues going on in this premiere. Olivia’s having a rough time, Munch really, really wants to open a bar, Fin’s not transferring anywhere anytime soon and Stabler is on a one man mission to find out who stole his credit card.

Six Things That Made This A Great Season Premiere:

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"Law and Order SVU" Recap & Review - "Cold"

Law and Order: SVU
"Cold"

Original Air Date: May 13, 2008

Kara – TwoCents Reviewer

This episode would be entirely forgettable if a few things that completely change the show didn’t happen. If you are like me and aren’t in the know about what’s going on behind the camera on SVU, this was a pretty shocking episode. It focuses around Detective Lake, who I feel like I barely know and apparently everyone in the precinct agrees. Lake is found shot twice and another officer is dead from the five shots fired from Lake’s gun. He won’t talk and thus begins the “Did he do it?” / “No, he couldn’t have done it” debate.

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"Law & Order: SVU" Recap & Review - "Authority"

Law & Order: SVU
“Authority”

Original airdate: April 29, 2008

Kara – TwoCents Reviewer

This week was the big Robin Williams guest appearance we’ve been hearing so much about and for the most part, it lived up to all the hype. The episode starts out in a fast food chain called HappiBurger, where Dwight Lomax (Scott Adsit from 30 Rock) is holding a young, female employee hostage. He says he got a phone call from detective Milgrim who instructed him to strip search the employee and keep her there until he can get there. There are a few problems with this: she’s underage, he has no right to do that and oh yes, there’s no detective Milgrim. After hearing the entire explanation in interrogation, Stabler just looks at Lomax and says, “You’re an idiot.” It’s such a simple line but it’s amazing. We quickly find out there’s a website warning about the HappiHoaxer, who calls fast food places and tries to get employees to commit various criminal acts, telling them they have police authority to do so. Enter Robin Williams.

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