Captin puffy3/22/2023 ![]() So, it’s natural for at least some part of her to be feeling just a little bit hopeless. Understandably, she’s likely pretty mixed up about things, probably beating up on herself a bit for not being ready to go there yet despite having had her “moment,” so to speak. Throughout much of Law & Order: SVU 24×13, Liv seems about as exhausted and frustrated with the EO of it all as we are. So, Mariska Hargitay never sets a toe out of line…and yet, even she can’t quite make the majority of Olivia’s very obvious, heavy-handed comments about relationships completely make sense here. So, on that note… We asked for continuity, and we got…this? LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT - “Intersection” Episode 24013 - Pictured: Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson - (Photo by: Scott Gries/NBC) And hilariously enough (joke’s on us with this one), since “Intersection” didn’t have multiple unrelated storylines and a message of some case being “more significant” than the rape cases that SVU is actually supposed to focus on, it’s still, somehow, a better viewing experience than its immediate predecessors. ![]() If the goal was to give us the same feeling as the victims of all those forced car crashes, that’s a great success! But if not? Here’s some advice for the future: Show, don’t tell. Whether it’s heavy-handed lines that both overdo it on telling us about Olivia’s reckoning with that EO scene and…really don’t tell us anything with any consistency at all, or way too much armchair psychology, the episode just feels about as understated as being smashed into by a pickup truck instead of a semi. Ever - and then just, somehow, gets less subtle from there. It starts with something that’s been a complaint for years - overdoing it on the showing the actual crime, as if anyone wanted or needed that. Law & Order: SVU 24×13 “Intersection” is mostly strong but suffers, in every aspect of the storytelling, from a complete lack of subtlety.
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