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Somebody already mentioned two recent Colombian immigrants not having accents. To add insult to that injury, the writers had a guy who just landed in this country refer to his attackers as a "couple of meatheads from Jersey". How would he have learned that kind of informal local language so quickly? The writing seems to get worse every year. But my crush on MH keeps me coming back.

I've come to realize that Reyes and Velasco from SVU are essentially the same guy. You could switch actors and barely notice. Brooding, short-tempered Latino with a sketchy adolescence that seems less than law-abiding. Impulsive behavior lands him on desk duty.

A bunch of college kids keeping score of their sexual encounters? Extremely plausible. The kids collecting DNA samples and keeping vials in a Hi-Tech lab? Preposterous.

The only people at Kathy's funeral were Elliott, the kids and of course, St. Olivia. I guess Kathy was an orphan? I was waiting forvo e of the kids to ask Olivia: why the hell are you here?

I'm hoping it's revealed that the kidnapper "George" is actually William Lewis, who's secretly working in Rob Miller's sex doll factory. The cliffhanger certainly leaves the door open for an OC crossover, with Stabler going undercover as a doll purchaser and Bell looking chronically constipated. And the voiceover narration was brutal.

Is there anything to Bell making goo goo eyes with the female Chinese detective? It was clear from the dialogue that they have a lot in common. (Very attractive lesbian cops who lost their marriage to the demands of the job)

As a huge fan of the early seasons, this season so far is a bit too convoluted and boring. There are too many characters with too many storylines - earlier seasons were easier to follow. Anyhow, I've already invested the time so I will watch the second set of episodes in March. The commenters who notice that Rhys never interacts with any other characters are probably on to something - the guy may not exist outside of Joe's fevered imagination. Who knows who locked Joe and Roald in the dungeon and set the fire? Can Joe go back to the dingy streets of New York and his job as a bookstore clerk?

When Reyes spoke to the CI, she did mention his wife being her niece. For a minute I thought Wolf was desperately trying to save money on casting: the actor playing the prisoner looks a lot like the actor playing Capt. Duarte on SVU. What was the point of red leather coat lady? For the second time this season, Stabler has mildly flirtatious interaction with a woman who strongly resembles Benson but is not actually Benson. (Remember the pointless Italian lady?) Why?

A couple of posters made an excellent point: a serial rapist attacking vulnerable deaf women could have been a strong stand-alone episode. Instead it got mixed into a this jumbled mess. When do we find out that Oscar Pabo secretly works for one of the following: Rob Miller Richard Wheatley William Lewis

When is Noah being sent to boarding school? There are several in Northern New England hours away from NYC. Thanks to those who clarified the graffiti scene. I had no clue what was going on. I had forgotten about the subway attack. I think the best therapy for disappointed longtime fans is to watch really old reruns on the Ion Network. You get a glimpse of an excellent ensemble drama, before it turned into the beatification of St. Olivia of Manhattan.

When did NYPD stop carrying radios and start relying solely on mass market cell phones? An absolute train wreck of an episode. Time to drop the casino owner storyline. There's just nothing there. Maybe I'm wrong but wasn't the actor playing the lead hit man the same actor who played one of the leaders of the Albanian gang?

The pendulum has swung wildly from being way too focused on one character (Wheatley) to being a disorganized mess. Now they're all over the place to the point of being incoherent. It seems that somebody in the writer's room woke up one day and realized "this casino developer story is very thin and kind of boring so we can't build entire episodes around it". And for the love of God, I hope we've seen the last of that annoying Italian detective. It's almost as if the writers said "if we bring Olivia on for crossover, a lot of fans get alienated - so let's bring on a female detective who kind of looks like Olivia". Fights with the police bureaucracy have always been among the weakest parts of the entire franchise. Twenty years ago I was ready to click off when Lt. Van Buren started yammering about her lawsuit against the Department management.

SVU had something like this just a couple weeks ago. Not one but TWO adult women confessed to murdering their kidnapper in order to protect a little girl - (she looked about 10-11 years old).

congratulations - you were able to follow this awful plot much closer than I was. this was about as realistic as those Marvel movies. a boss trading sex for jobs/promotions? sure that part was believable. But prosecutors being able to connect the unqualified lifeguards to 10 drownings was preposterous unless each case was like the one where the lifeguard was specifically instructed to leave his colleague in the water. absolutely dreadful from start to finish. the only thing that would have made it worse was Olivia walking down the street with Noah and she bumps into William Lewis AND Richard Wheatley.

Is it true that millennials are a key demographic for any Law & Order show? Given the literally hundreds of options out there via cable and streaming, I find that very hard to believe but I could be wrong as I don't have any statistics.