Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) Honor (2000) User Reviews

One warped idea of honor

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 23 July 2020]

The SVU squad catches a case involving an Afghan foreign student being stabbed to death and left in Central Park. The investigation shows she was the daughter of an Afghan diplomat attached to the UN.

In this day and age in America it is hard to imagine honor killing. But to curry favor with the Taliban government he had promised his virgin daughter to a Taliban official. The daughter had an Afghan lover who was now a citizen of America sand she had to die so family honor would satisfy his Taliban masters.

Worse still he gets his son and the victim's brother to do the awful deed. New cast member Stephanie March gets to proseute.

A culture most hard to fathom. A good episode.

Homicidal honour

[TheLittleSongbird · 8/10 · 20 February 2020]

After a solid Season 1, there were high hopes on first watch for Season 2 and high expectations on the most part were very much met. That opinion holds up still now. Despite it going through a lot of changes, that must have caused a little unsettlement behind the scenes, the season opener episode "Wrong is Right" was very solid and deals very well with the numerous firsts the show underwent at this point of its run, which can't have been easy.

Season 2's second episode "Honor" is just as strong and is a very good episode in its own right. Actually think that it is a better second Season 2 episode than the original 'Law and Order's' ("The Wages of Love", still a good episode), which also followed on from an episode with just as many changes but didn't feel as settled. In my view though there are better 'Special Victims Unit' episodes and better episodes in the season itself too, which just goes to show considering to me this is still a very episode how great the superior episodes are.

Will agree that the ending is predictable, will admit that it was not too hard to predict halfway through. Agree too that the team showed more professionalism in a vast majority of previous episodes' climaxes.

The father also is not written in the most subtle of ways, in fact he is the person one dislikes quite intensely from the very start.

However, as ever "Honor" looks slick and stylish, with again a sharper look compared to the previous season. The music lets the dialogue properly speak and when it is used it doesn't come over as melodramatic or obvious. The writing throughout is full of intelligence that makes one think and is tautly structured.

Furthermore, "Honor's" story is absorbing, especially the first half which is actually pretty brilliant, and definitely has the shock factor, more so than most of the Season 1 episodes have. One doesn't need to have been in the situation the victim went through and had the family problems to be shocked and relate to what happened.

All the performances are very good, regulars and guest stars. The regulars are all strong, and Marshall Manesh does a great job making his character wholly hateable.

Concluding, very good once again. 8/10

S**** the cultural background.

[m-47826 · 6/10 · 23 September 2019]

Good episode. Prophetic to some extent.

Several times, western governments let outrageous and unspeakable acts occur. Because some people from some countries, with different « values » did it. And this, out of sheer coward-ness or complicit silence. And this episode, that once was a distant possibility. Became a current problem outside of its cradle. The writing that managed to depict the issue pretty neatly, in spite of a frustrating, borderline infuriating ending. Once again put us 21st Century viewers, faced with a sad truth of our times. Backwarded behaviors are excused, under cover of different cultural backgrounds. And the saddest thing about it is, even shows like this one, were already warning us about that risk, twenty years ago.

A shame nobody listened... And nobody cares.

Starts Out Strong with a Predictable, Weak Finish

[keyshawn632 · 27 December 2008]

The show started strong. The circumstances of the crime and perpetrator(s)'(s) motives were revealed at a good pace and was intriguing. Multiple plausible suspects and interference from other government(s) kept the plot moving along well, despite the omission of any Sidel plot lines (the SVU's personal lives). Half way through, this episode went downhill. The decision of one of the characters to change their actions seemed a bit unrealistic, given his/her cultural background. Given the character's change of course, the climax was predictable and left the SVU characters appearing very inept following the climax.

An atypical, below average showing for SVU.. 4/10 (I rate a typical SVU show 7/10)