Remember Me

SPOILER: Way back when SVU debuted the episode concerned some women from Kosovo recognized a Serbian terrorist who was a serial rapist of Moslem women. 19 years later while at a club in Manhattan, Genesis Rodriguez spots the coyote took her across the border. Carlos Miranda. She instantly snaps, but she's worked out somewhat whatever she might do if she ran into this creep again.

She comes on strong and Miranda thinks he's getting a little something something. But she pulls a gun on him and takes him hostage and pistol whips the older man she was staying with.

An open and unsecured cellphone gives her situation away. But Olivia Benson gets caught up by the perpetrator in a truly stupid move which is why the episode gets so low a rating. She and another patrolman are now hostages as well.

While Miranda protests his innocence, maybe he just looks like the coyote who did her wrong. Mariska Hargitay starts to slowly believe her. Just a question of reaching Rodriguez.

Unlike the other reviewers I was blown away by Rodriguez. She is one scary and wronged woman. She was the best thing about this story.

I think this episode is the worst episode of SVU ever. I can't stand this episode. It's boring, not well acted, and honestly kind of stupid. It feels like the writers got really lazy and just threw something together to finish the season. I could go on a long diatribe of how much i loathe this episode but I dont want to spoil it for any people who enjoying sitting through a torturous hour of television. For those that dont skip the episode and dont watch the repeat when it airs on Ion or USA - the rest of this review will just be nonsense to meet the character requirement. Dj as jsjsbsnsnnsnsn.

I have had many things happen to me in life. It's unfortunate. It's frustrating. It's horrible. And it can be downright confusing. That doesn't mean I am going to hurt others equally (or more) to get my story told. That's not how life works. Years ago, I had my whole life changed by two racist professors in graduate school. They dug into my life and pretty well destroyed it. It took years for me to recover. Not many know of my story, not many can understand the significance of the hurt and damage they did to my life, nor did I get any justice for their wrongdoing, but I was also never taught to hurt others regardless of my perspective of needed justice for wrongs done to me.

This episode of Law & Order: SVU is teaching younger views - and, sadly, even some adults - that some crimes, especially if you have "had it worse," which is also a matter of your own perspective, is perfectly fine. If your story hasn't yielded enough attention, then commit a crime, especially against the person(s) that harmed you. And if someone gets hurt or killed in the process, as it did happen in this episode of Law & Order: SVU, then that's okay, too, because that's all that matters in the end, at least to those writing and running this show seem to suggest.

Seeking revenge is NEVER, ever an okay thing to do. It's that plain and simple. -CDM

So sick of people posting 1 star reviews for a still brilliant show most of them targeting politics or making out things are unrealistic. Neither is true however many episodes are extremely hard to watch because of the painful, traumatic experiences of the victims. This is one of them so I only mark this 2 points off because if that. But it's still a dramatic suspenseful he said she said episode that is brilliantly played out as usual. After 20 years the writing of SVU has never wavered. I seriously dint know how they keep up such quality!

Writers of this show clearly doesn't watch episodes written by other writers, there's just too much stupid inconsistencies regarding Olivia Benson. Sometimes she's just straight up refusing to bend the law in any way (just few episodes ago she gaslighted Alex Cabot to believe that she had no options and had to follow law and that costed abused women's life) but yet here we are once again with her defending murderer because she thinks something bad happened to her with absolutely no evidence at all. I can't even remember how many times they've talked the talk that vigilante justice isn't acceptable but they hardly ever walk the walk when it's alleged "rape victim". Murder is murder and that's absolutely black and white not any shade of grey.