Something Happened

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.

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

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.

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.

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.