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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
S19.E12
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Info Wars

  • Episode aired Jan 31, 2018
  • TV-14
  • 42m
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6.3/10
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Kelli Giddish and Peter Scanavino in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Info Wars
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After a female pundit is assaulted during a protest, Benson and Barba struggle to put their political beliefs aside in order to help bring the attacker to justice.After a female pundit is assaulted during a protest, Benson and Barba struggle to put their political beliefs aside in order to help bring the attacker to justice.After a female pundit is assaulted during a protest, Benson and Barba struggle to put their political beliefs aside in order to help bring the attacker to justice.

  • Director
    • Michael Slovis
  • Writers
    • Dick Wolf
    • Richard Sweren
    • Robert Brooks Cohen
  • Stars
    • Mariska Hargitay
    • Kelli Giddish
    • Ice-T
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    1.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Michael Slovis
    • Writers
      • Dick Wolf
      • Richard Sweren
      • Robert Brooks Cohen
    • Stars
      • Mariska Hargitay
      • Kelli Giddish
      • Ice-T
    • 16User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Benson Questions a Victim
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: How Are You Feeling?
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: How Are You Feeling?
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: He Adores Her
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Info Wars

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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.
    RaΓΊl Esparza
    RaΓΊl Esparza
    • ADA Rafael Barba
    Rhea Seehorn
    Rhea Seehorn
    • Martha Cobb
    Kurt Fuller
    Kurt Fuller
    • Jed Karey
    Joe Grifasi
    Joe Grifasi
    • Judge Heshy Horowitz
    Jonathan Judge-Russo
    Jonathan Judge-Russo
    • Randy Platt
    Adam Zastrow
    Adam Zastrow
    • Justin Vichinsky
    • (as Adam William Zastrow)
    Lee Roy Rogers
    • Selma Platt
    Lisa Helmi Johanson
    • Esme Parker
    Tuck Sweeney
    • Henry Anderson
    Maceo Oliver
    Maceo Oliver
    • Sergeant Miller
    Lars Engstrom
    Lars Engstrom
    • Campus Cop
    Amber Jaunai
    Amber Jaunai
    • EMT
    James Chery
    • Antifa Protester #1
    • (as James P. Chery)
    Tam Young
    Tam Young
    • Antifa Protester #2
    • Director
      • Michael Slovis
    • Writers
      • Dick Wolf
      • Richard Sweren
      • Robert Brooks Cohen
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    1mhammon-69711

    Really...?

    Ridiculous, offensive and just awful. I wish I hadn't wasted my time. A horrible and obvious political statement that is completely shameful. They use the term "pundit," but then I must ask, what is the writer....? πŸ€” Munch would be condemning them all for hating a victim for free speech.
    10yazguloner

    Battle of Armors and Moral Compasses

    This is the episode where Olivia and Barba's moral compass is put to a serious test.

    We watch the wind of Barba's charisma abundantly and with pleasure.

    The war of sharp opinions on social media creates victims. She moves into the courtrooms with him.

    Olivia's humanity, her struggle to bring the victim to justice, and We are watching all the ideals of the wonder of Barba.

    However, with the case and the event, it turns into a language fight of two opposing views. All the arguments of opposing views on social media stand before us like an armor in this section.

    Dialogues, writing, stories and performances, with guest actors... are giant episodes, Rock is episodes.

    Rollins lyrics: "Carma's Bit..", "More you dismiss her, the more you embolden her supporters" and with all its other arguments... an excellent article...

    At the very end, in the final, a result that is rare in svu occurs. And than, unfortunately, the victim puts on her armor and fights against a woman as a villain. She shoots a sharp arrow at Olivia's mother and her collateral damage.
    8bkoganbing

    Hudson U. invaded by the right and left

    Law And Order franchise's Hudson University is the scene of a speech by provocative right wing speaker Rhee Seehorn who makes Annie Coulter look like Mary Poppins. Some Alt Right neo Nazis show up in solidarity and some left wing radical types protest her. A riot ensues and Seehorn leaves and seeks shelter. But when she's found by campus security she's just been sodomized with the pole of a protest sign.

    This is a frightening episode not for the characterizations of some of the people, but for the fact that we've become so polarized that a woman like Seehorn is far more interested in using this crime to further her cause than to actually get justice.

    Adam Zastrow who was seen with the picket sign during the riot is arrested and he's defended by Kurt Fuller a Bill Kunstler type lawyer. But there's good and sufficient reason to believe that right wing yahoo Jonathan Judge Russo might also be the perpetrator as the case develops.

    You've got to love Rhee Seehorn. A bit of Ann Coulter, a bit of Kelly Anne Conway and you've got the kind of blond ice princess the current right wing seems to just love. She reminds me a bit of my former boss at Crime Victims Board Joanie Cusack of Staten Island. Surprised she hasn't gone for a job at the Trump White House, she'd fit right in.

    Our finely crafted jury trial system with its careful rules is supposed to be a search for truth. It's anything but in this SVU story.
    8tuhraycee-14571

    Keeping up with the times

    This episode covers a range of what is happening politically nowadays. Pretty impressive what they chose to include. Well done, as usual. It doesn't glorify either 'side'. It shows the mess of the landscape. It was also good to see Kim from Better Call Saul.
    10servaneytb

    Interesting

    Very good episode. I don't understand why the people hate this.

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    • Trivia
      This episode was inspired by the Charlottesville Riots.
    • Quotes

      Rafael Barba: [to Justin Vichinsky] You believe that Martha Cobb is a right-wing extremist?

      Justin Vichinsky: Yeah, except she's way worse than the people that she provokes. Like she has any idea what it's like to be a hardworking American with her prep-school privilege and her gated Bel Air mansion. Sure, she presents as this blonde beach bunny, but in reality, she's the Joseph Goebbels of the alt-right propaganda machine and we need to stop her by any means necessary.

      Rafael Barba: Hmm. Disgust, lack of control, rage. You just checked all the boxes on the rapist checklist, Mr. Vichinsky.

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    • Release date
      • January 31, 2018 (United States)
    • Language
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      • New York City, New York, USA
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      • Universal Television
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