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"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Crush (2009)
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Original Air Date:
5 May 2009
(Season 10, Episode 20)
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Over the course of a complex "sexting" case involving an abused teenage girl, the team encounters a corrupt family court judge who hands down unusually harsh sentences for borderline sexual offenses. | full synopsis
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One of Law & Order SVU's signature tricks kind of results in a dud this time
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| Fri. Jan. 1 | 3:00 PM | USA | Crush | #10.20 |
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Christopher Meloni | ... | Detective Elliot Stabler |
 | Mariska Hargitay | ... | Detective Olivia Benson |
 | Richard Belzer | ... | Sergeant John Munch (credit only) |
 | Ice-T | ... | Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola |
 | Michaela McManus | ... | A.D.A. Kim Greylek (credit only) |
 | B.D. Wong | ... | Dr. George Huang |
 | Tamara Tunie | ... | Dr. Melinda Warner (credit only) |
| Dann Florek | ... | Captain Donald Cragen |
 | Swoosie Kurtz | ... | Judge Hilda Marsden |
 | Carly Schroeder | ... | Kim Garnet |
 | Ezra Miller | ... | Ethan Morse |
 | Noel Fisher | ... | CSU Tech Dale Stuckey |
 | Scott Bryce | ... | Bill Garnet |
 | Kellie Overbey | ... | Mrs. Garnet |
 | Alexander Nifong | ... | Steve Walker |
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42 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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*** This review may contain spoilers ***
One move that SVU seems to pull quite frequently as part of its regular MO is to have its A story, the story that's advertised, run for around 35-40 minutes before a surprising B story that is tangentially related to the first comes in to fill the rest of the time. This often can make for a fulfilling episode - certainly it was a good decision in the previous episode "Selfish."
Here, though, it takes away from a compelling and true-to-life seeming story for something that is goofy and over the top. They could have done a lot more with the A story of a girl refusing to name her attacker, which could be one of two boys she'd been linked to. Less is often more. Instead, we get a ridiculous and cheesy B story about a corrupt judge. The climactic scene with Stabler, Huang, and the guest ADA du jour putting on a fake trial to ensnare the judge *was* well done, but ultimately I think the episode would have been better sticking with the A story to the end. Save the over the top stuff for another episode when you've got such a strong and true-seeming A story.