Remember Me Too

I agree this is one ot fhe worst episodes ever. The plot, the actions of the principles, the political sanctimony made the whole thing painful to watch. Benson insists based on instincts this the rape victim is correct and breaks all kinds of rules to get her way. By all rights she should have been suspended for her actions. The DA doesn't report a mobster threatened his sister, another violation. The rape victim kills an innocent bystander and is allowed to walk.

There is an absurd scene where the rape victim complains her illelgal entry in the United States was SO MUCH harder than the illegal entry of her rapist. "My father had to use a mask and gun to rob the bank! Susie's father is a teller and just embezzled the money! It isn't fair!"

A police detail is ambushed and killed despite plenty of warning the mob would be coming for the DA's sister. In the final scene the cops have to fire about 500 bullets to kill one man, and don't get the hostage out alive anyway. If this is how real police officers and DAs operate, we might as well surrender to the Chinese and Russians now and get it over with.

All in all, a pathetic and embarrassing effort all around. Maybe we should watch reruns of "Cop Rock."

What a huge disappointment, although this shows has gone up and down through the years these last two episodes have really hit rock bottom, driven mainly by the lack of acting, filled instead by a whole bunch of screaming. I really hope they turn things around... at least Ice-T always delivers a solid performance.

SPOILER: Continuing over from the previous episode Genesis Rodriguez who took Carlos Miranda and others as hostages is now arrested for the homicide of the man Miranda was living with. He is in fact high up in a deadly Mexican cartel, folks who really get off on torture and death.

These folks think they can operate just like they do in Latin America with wholesale killing of law enforcement and their families. The climax shootout with one of their assassins proves tragic.

One of the hostages from the previous story shows his true face. It's a frightening face indeed for Carlos Miranda.

Nice to see Carolyn McCormick back as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet. Genesis Rodriguez will need all the help she can get for an insanity defense.

Better than the first episode of this two parter.

Season 19 didn't really wow me all that much. There were two very good episodes, "Mama" and "Gone Baby Gone", and a small handful of pretty good ones. Most of the season however for me was slightly above average or below, with the weakest episodes "No Good Reason", "In Loco Parentis", "Send in the Clowns" and the "Remember Me" episodes being pretty much misfires. While my first watch of "Remember Me Too" was not as bad as "Remember Me's", it was not good at all.

On rewatch, "Remember Me Too" is still not good at all. If anything, it was very weak and like the previous episode it is as bad as the worst of Season 18, which is not a good sign and a position that none of the subsequent seasons should have gone but actually did so. Despite having the lower rating here, to me "Remember Me Too" actually was ever so marginally better than "Remember Me". The problems were similar and again worse in quality and quantity than on first watch, but it isn't as repetitive.

"Remember Me Too" has a few good things. The production values are slick and gritty. The music avoided just about being too heavy on the melodrama or being intrusive.

Did think too that the regular acting was marginally better, despite their material being severely lacking. Not as much going through the motions, with a couple of exceptions.

Mariska Hargitay though has been much better elsewhere, she doesn't have as much steel or vulnerability as before and even since and her acting was in the last two episodes of Season 19 limited to two or three at most expressions. Phillip Winchester is still wooden and flatter than an undercooked pancake and Stone has little presence as a character. Olivia's attitude is intolerable, haven't cared for her character writing for most of the season but it is at its worst here and in "Remember Me". Especially in her I'm always right confrontational attitude towards Stone. Her attitude here makes her attitude towards Cabot in "Sunk Cost Fallacy" hypocritical (seeing as she is guilty here of what she reprimands Cabot for doing and even condones a crime that in the early years she would have banged people to rights for).

Not only is the dialogue less than taut, melodramatic and bland, it is also pretty preachy and condescending. Especially Olivia's, which actually was a common problem in Season 19. The story feels dull and over-stretched (a story that feels at least 15 minutes too long) and is further hurt by a severe lack of suspense, excessive predictability and an ending that is absurd as one can get (calling it that in fact is an understatement). Didn't find myself caring for the characters and the support acting is at best nothing special and easy to forget in the long run.

In summary, very weak ending to an unexceptional season. 3/10.