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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
S19.E7
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Something Happened

  • Episode aired Nov 29, 2017
  • TV-14
  • 43m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
1.1K
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Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Something Happened
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Benson must disclose the secrets of her past to help a rape victim recall the details of one terrible, traumatic night.Benson must disclose the secrets of her past to help a rape victim recall the details of one terrible, traumatic night.Benson must disclose the secrets of her past to help a rape victim recall the details of one terrible, traumatic night.

  • Director
    • Alex Chapple
  • Writers
    • Dick Wolf
    • Michael S. Chernuchin
    • Brianna Yellen
  • Stars
    • Mariska Hargitay
    • Kelli Giddish
    • Ice-T
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    1.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Alex Chapple
    • Writers
      • Dick Wolf
      • Michael S. Chernuchin
      • Brianna Yellen
    • Stars
      • Mariska Hargitay
      • Kelli Giddish
      • Ice-T
    • 27User reviews
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    Mariska Hargitay
    Mariska Hargitay
    • Lieutenant Olivia Benson
    Kelli Giddish
    Kelli Giddish
    • Detective Amanda Rollins
    Ice-T
    Ice-T
    • Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
    • (as Ice T)
    Peter Scanavino
    Peter Scanavino
    • Detective Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr.
    Raúl Esparza
    Raúl Esparza
    • ADA Rafael Barba
    Melora Walters
    Melora Walters
    • Laurel Linwood
    Joanna Going
    Joanna Going
    • Leah Linwood
    Chris Cafero
    Chris Cafero
    • James
    Crystal T. Johnson
    Crystal T. Johnson
    • Meg
    Lana Young
    Lana Young
    • Mrs. Drayson
    Kayla Diaz
    • Nancy
    Tai Lyn Sandhu
    Tai Lyn Sandhu
    • Linda
    Roger Brenner
    • FDNY
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    • Director
      • Alex Chapple
    • Writers
      • Dick Wolf
      • Michael S. Chernuchin
      • Brianna Yellen
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    5marysammons-42220

    Annoying

    This episode was just plain annoying. Melora Walters almost baby like voice and over the top acting we're awful. I'm not as annoyed by others that Olivia was front and center. But I do get the point that it's happening a lot more since Chris Meloni left.
    5bkoganbing

    Olivia goes deep into her own past

    Melora Walters plays a woman who comes to the SVU squad with a story that she was raped by a man who picked her up in a bar. Ice-T and Peter Scannavino discover him dead when they track him down.

    Which leaves Mariska Hargitay trying to get facts and a confession if warranted from said facts. She gets no help from the victim's sister lawyer Joanna Going and a lot of family dirty linen is aired. Some of Olivia Benson's as well.

    This episode had potential, but a muddled script keeps it from being top rated.
    9greyejaymes

    Epic acting

    Mariska is on fire in this episode. She goes through all the range of emotions flawlessly. The antagonist has her moments of being annoying, but it only spoke more to the truth of the character; flawed and unhinged and deeply disturbed by what her childhood entailed. Mariska delivered such an incredible performance. It's been years since she spoke so much of her father and hearing her tell it all to a victim/perp was eerie. It only proves that Olivia Benson is a true survivor in all that she has endured in her life. That you can be angry, even hate filled at times, but you make the choice to do good and see good in others.
    5drake-78976

    Well..

    I really tried to enjoy this episode..i really did. But man that was just bad. Only positive thing in this epsiode is the usual cast who did an excellent job as always but the two guest actors (victim and her sister) really tried too hard...it really annoyed me.
    10yazguloner

    Ying Yang

    "Something Happened" In this striking episode.

    The rain sound is a reference to the movie 12 angry men.

    Olivia, If she surrenders to her showdown with her father, she meets the personality that awaits her in her destiny.

    Like a hunt and hunter simulation...

    Olivia is not alone in the center this time. With the waves created by the thrown stone ... with secondary damages.

    Olivia and her brother Simon are compared with Going and her sister Walters.

    People who confront traumatic events again, Comparison of William Lewis and Greg Harvey.

    From a difficult past life, Olivia and Walters won the fight, one became a detective and one became a lawyer. However, the others lost Going and Simon ...

    Like Ying Yang, there is a bad in every good, there is a good in every bad... A reckoning episode

    Traces of the trauma of the past and its results are well presented with acting, writing 👏👏🌸🌸

    Walters makes a very fitting play with Mariska. She plays a personality with the trauma of rape and abuse very well.

    In the sisters competition, they put on great performances. Olivia, Laurel and Leah complete the triangle as collateral damage.

    The music at the last interrogation moment is great. If Svu is going to have a soundtrack, it must be on the list.

    Music, atmosphere, dialogues and writing are perfect. In the final, it is the part that made me say waww, that caused me to create a collection of svu rock episodes.

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    Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in Moonlight (2016)
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    • Trivia
      Joanna Going and Melora Walters, who play sisters, were both previously married to actor Dylan Walsh.
    • Goofs
      13:52 Caption shows "26 Street and 8th Avenue" with a shot of Blarney Stone Pub and Restaurant. Blarney Stone is 5 blocks north on 8th Ave where West 31 Street street signs are visible.
    • Quotes

      Olivia Benson: Laurel, I've been doing this a long time. Women who have been raped and children who have been abused don't say "we did this" and "we did that." They talk about what their attacker did to them. Like you told me about Greg Harvey.

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    • Release date
      • November 29, 2017 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Wolf Films
      • Universal Television
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    • Runtime
      • 43m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 16:9 HD

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