Social engineering
I don't get what it is with this season and hitting viewers over the head with frequent guilting about the need to "mask up" and take "virtual only" classes and the like. As a late 2022 viewer, living at a time where the hype around COVID is finally over, watching episodes like this just feel silly. The episode here is, to be fair, finally a reference to current true crime cases in a researched way (Amanda Knox), but the COVID stuff is far too distracting. Captain Benson is there just to make insensitive quips and condescending criticisms, and they still haven't really done anything with Kat. Totally agree with another reviewer who compared her likeness to "Richard Belzer and Howdy Doody". Which makes me miss Belzer's Detective Munch character on SVU even more; he'd have brought in at least a semi-interesting libertarian take on the whole Pandemic climate that could've balanced out the political nuttery.
- SusieSalmonLikeTheFish
- Nov 4, 2022