Wow. A real sex crime story. Almost felt like old times. That was a whole lotta CSI/Millennium/X-Files gruesomeness there. Judith McCreary writes decent eps… With GIANT ASS PLOTHOLES!!!
Shall I list them?
- Serial killer case assigned to a lone detective? Yeaaaaaaa rite.
- There’s an information leak ZOMG!!!1!eleven! freak out!!! and then… nothing.
- The guy has an alibi for a crime he’s going to commit the next day, but for the alibi to work he’d have to know that the victim has a kiln which he won’t cause he won’t have known who his victims are until he gets his delivery list, presumably on that day. So he couldn’t have created his alibi yesterday! (This one hurts my brain)
- Why couldn’t Alex charge him for assaulting that undercover cop?
- The chief of detective is a grade A asshole and he looks like a prune. (this one is not so much a plothole as it is a pain in the ass plot device)
Also, still not eeee-nough of Alex Cabot. Don’t try to distract me with Cabot Hotness in a Ponytail, you evil producers and writers. Every episode since the one in which she returned we’ve seen Alex for all of like five minutes. The rest of the time she must be off somewhere chewing cud or something cause she sure as hell isn’t doing a whole lot.
And I miss Olivia, dammit. This has been a fun episode but if I have to get through another one without Benson menacing a perp, or telling off the Chief of Detective (ooooh) I’m going to cry.
It’s too late now to change anything this season, I realize that. But let’s try and make it work next year. For the sake of the children?
Addendum: There’re only what – three more eps left? On review, the better episodes of this season have been the earlier ones – like the one with the kid trying to confess that he’s a child molester, and ‘Swing’ (I heart you, Amanda Green). This season continues to follow the downward trajectory set sometime in season 8, and the more I watch, the more frustrated I get. Alex’s return hasn’t turned this thing around. Her presence merely, and temporarily, numbs the pain of convoluted stories, over-acting, and general haplessness of the SVU crew. Sigh.