Something Happened

Thoroughly unenjoyable episode. Giving it five stars is probably being generous. Try hard actors and slow moving episode. I usually like Liv but really disliked her here. Also why is the lieutenant doing all the initial interviewing and trying to draw out the story, what a waste of time surely she has more important duties. The other main actors/characters were wasted here.

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.

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.

Nothing in between. I loved it. They took a risk and I think showed the impact of sexual abuse for what it is. Destructive of all that it touches, including the "collateral damage." I commend Mariska Hargitay, Melora Walters, and Dick Wolf for digging down and giving us something even more than the normally great drama. I salute them!

*deep breath* MARISKA HARGITAY IS AN AMAZING ACTRESS WHO PUT SO MUCH EMOTION INTO THIS EPISODE AND DESERVES 10 EMMY'S