Xeliou66 Thursday at 09:56 PM Share Thursday at 09:56 PM Episode description A young boy seeks help when his sister doesn’t come home from work. Benson and Carisi suspect a woman’s assault was prearranged by a third party. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/151661-s26e11-deductible/
wknt3 Friday at 03:06 AM Share Friday at 03:06 AM The Good: The non-Benson parts of the investigation. A team effort with some solid police work. Lots of Fin and giving Silva some real work didn't hurt. Benson's self-righteousness and victim whispering magic did. Carisi. Some solid work even if like everything else this episode the material was nothing that hasn't been done a hundred times before, usually better. An actual trial! With actual testimony on both sides! And Benson wasn't all pissy that Carisi had to actually have evidence and follow the law! The previews for next week look potentially good. The Bad: The opening. It was way too long for so little and everything except the OT conversation was about as clunky and overbearing as possible without any sense that it was meant to be. And speaking of lacking subtlety and self-awareness the scene with Benson promising the kid everything would be OK... The guest acting in the first half of the episode. The non-Mariska regulars were mostly solid to good, but except for the kid most of the guest stars seemed flat. I know the writing was uninspired at best, but the guest stars have sold the hell out of a lot less before. I don't know if it was poor directing or what but it was noticeable that what was usually a strength was a weak point. A ton of B.S. (Benson Stuff) this week. Just out of control from beginning to end. I guess we should be just be greatful Benson didn't adopt the kid... Overall this was a turd - a collection of all of the worst tropes of the past decade made watchable only by some decent scenes for the squad and a mostly competently done trial. And the script seemed like it was one of those AI generated regurgitations the WGA was warning us about during the strike. This was a disappointment after some solid outings. Hopefully this was just one of those sacrificial episodes where they let Mariska run wild in exchange for keeping her worst tendencies in check for 5 or 6 weeks of the season. Otherwise there is no excuse for such a mediocre outing. 3 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/151661-s26e11-deductible/#findComment-8568461
Xeliou66 Friday at 04:24 AM Author Share Friday at 04:24 AM This was a boring drag of an episode - a ton of the typical Benson crap - Benson being the one to get through to everyone, Benson promising to save the day and doing so etc, plus it was dead obvious what happened from the start - there was no suspense and it was stuff we had seen over and over the last few seasons of SVU. Everything was spelled out in the overly long clunky opening and there were no twists along the way. Just a dull, boring episode. Only part I liked was Carisi in court, one of the best things SVU has done this season is use the courtroom more and give Carisi good material, that gave the episode a slight boost, otherwise it would’ve been dreadful. No Bruno sucked as well. This season has been better than I expected but this was a total dud. 4 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/151661-s26e11-deductible/#findComment-8568525
cfinboston Friday at 06:34 PM Share Friday at 06:34 PM Remember back in the day when someone walked in the door, any of the detectives would take it? Now Captain Benson purposefully strides through the office and takes the case. Plus the incessant nodding and whispering. I can't with that anymore. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/151661-s26e11-deductible/#findComment-8568862
preeya Saturday at 01:06 AM Share Saturday at 01:06 AM Olivia does it again. From now on, I will be calling her "smug face." 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/151661-s26e11-deductible/#findComment-8569225
Amazee-Dayzee Saturday at 05:59 AM Share Saturday at 05:59 AM Can somebody please explain to me what the hell a "1 in a third" year prison term means? Without the perjury charge, Frank would be doing two of those. Is that like 2 years or something? Bensaint implied that it wasn't long at all. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/151661-s26e11-deductible/#findComment-8569714
preeya Saturday at 09:02 PM Share Saturday at 09:02 PM (edited) 15 hours ago, Amazee-Dayzee said: Can somebody please explain to me what the hell a "1 in a third" year prison term means? Without the perjury charge, Frank would be doing two of those. Is that like 2 years or something? Bensaint implied that it wasn't long at all. Subtitles has this: Guilty on both counts, 1 1/3 year for each, served consecutively. I suspect it means 1 year and 4 months for each count. That said, I had more of a problem with the charge of “coercion” which seems to be a misdemeanor. I don't think that would have warranted the trial as it was portrayed. Edited Saturday at 09:47 PM by preeya 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/151661-s26e11-deductible/#findComment-8569946
wknt3 Sunday at 11:49 PM Share Sunday at 11:49 PM On 1/31/2025 at 1:34 PM, cfinboston said: Remember back in the day when someone walked in the door, any of the detectives would take it? Now Captain Benson purposefully strides through the office and takes the case. That's because Captain Cragen was busy doing all of the admin work that the CO is expected to do. As we found out this week she is making Fin do all of the paperwork so she can micromanage the cases. Which is probably where Fin is all of those weeks we don't see him - in an office typing up reports and sticking one of those "sign here" arrows for Liv to sign and trying to remember her password for the HR system... 1 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/151661-s26e11-deductible/#findComment-8570594
Wizardpatch Yest. at 02:42 PM Share Yest. at 02:42 PM ForMyFans account? Really, Dick Wolf? That's worse than FaceSpace. Why not ExtraFans, SpecialFans, LuckyFans.....? Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/151661-s26e11-deductible/#findComment-8571179
tennisgurl 22 hours ago Share 22 hours ago That was certainly dull as dirt, its hard to get a lot of mystery milage out of a he said/she said case where you know right away what happened. Was anyone even remotely surprised that the boss was the one behind everything? Was that even supposed to be a surprise? Or that the female COO was covering for him because he did the same thing to her once and that she would come around for the big testimony at the end to lock the bad guy up after an Olivia speech? I could have written this episode on Chat GPT and it probably would have been better. I like that we got to see at least a bit of detective work from the rest of the squad and the courtroom stuff was pretty good, but this was an Olivia episode starring Olivia and her constant whispers. Its a weird New York that this show takes place in where an NYPD captain can stop to go to the apartment of one victim to go and give her a pep talk when she's upset, I guess there really are no other cases in all of her prescient that could use some attention. No wonder the opening was Olivia getting on the rest of the squad to do paperwork, God knows Olivia never does any admin work (the stuff that I think captains are supposed to do) on her own, not when instead she can give endless supportive speeches to endless crying victims as she is the only person who can possibly fix their broken hearts. Bleh. The supporting cast was alright, not bad but not really good enough to rise above the material. Not an awful episode, just extremely bland and dragged down by way too much of Olivia the Savior. 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/151661-s26e11-deductible/#findComment-8571289
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