Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) Must Be Held Accountable (2020) User Reviews

Must Be Held Accountable

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 26 January 2020]

An entertaining episode even if it wasn't all that well-written. Rollins is not letting a dangerous guy go free of his volition knowing he could do a similar thing again.

Ridiculous and impossible to take seriously

[mlyhancock · 2/10 · 19 July 2023]

So, this former cop goes nuts because the guy who assaulted his underage daughter gets let off. Ok, I'd lose my mind too. But to take a detective, who was trying to help get the guy put away, hostage... to what end? Why not go after the guy himself? Or his lawyer? Or the judge who obviously was involved somehow? And then he keeps threatening to kill the detective? WHAT GOOD IS THIS GOING TO DO?! It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I couldn't take a single second of this episode seriously because I couldn't get over how STUPID this father was. All that's going to happen is this guy is gonna be arrested and leave his girls with no guardian, because their mom is in rehab. And rather than being able to dedicate time to getting the scumbag who assaults and sells young girls, the SVU is having to chase down their missing detective. Just absolutely idiotic and unrealistic, especially since this guy was supposed to be a former cop. He had no plan and nothing he did made a lick of sense. Terrible writing.

Another SVU Soap Opera with Bad Directing and Over-the-Top Acting

[bkkaz · 1/10 · 8 November 2020]

Remember when SVU seemed like a show that approximated real life? Yeah. That was a long time ago. In more recent years, it's devolved into a kind of brainless soap opera, not just in focusing so much on the tedious chaos that is supposed to be the officers' personal lives but also in the presentation. Characterizations are no longer subtle or nuanced, and the actors playing the cardboard roles might as well be twirling mustaches or riding white horses. The stories lack anything approximating complexity. This obvious adaptation of Jeffrey Epstein's sorry life features Vincent Kartheiser (or however he spells his name), who is like a psychotic Wil Wheaton. He's arrogant enough to be in Trump's cabinet, and he's less a villain than a poster boy for smug White male. Any, the rest is trash. Yet another SVU officer is kidnapped, a happening so frequent they might want to hire body guards for the police officers. The newest of them, whose body language and expressions are reminiscent of the goons on Popeye (I'm not saying that to be mean -- watch the cartoon and you'll see) continues to posture a lot for no apparent reason. It's just not a very good show anymore, as this episode shows.