Yeah, slightly silly but entertaining. It also gave us an entry into the lives of Amaro and his wife - he needs to recognise that he is not the only one with stress problems.
I can't work out how to do this through IMDb, but I wish I could pass a message to bkoganbing. He puts a huge amount of effort into this work, for which I give him enormous respect, and his previous experience in the criminal system garners him more. However, I do wish that when he is writing reviews he would use character names when writing in the context of the story, reserving the use of actors' names for references to qualities of particular performances. I have read many of his reviews, and it drives me up the wall! Particularly, when families in the script are involved (as they often are in SVU) it becomes almost impossible to follow the story lines of his reviews when he references the characters by their acting names.
It becomes even more difficult when he confuses the characters as he has in his review of this episode. David Pittu plays Linus Tate, the lawyer of the arrested chef. The "harassing news reporter", Dennis Griscomb, was played by Gavin Lee. Please, bkoganbing, if you see this, have a think and maybe make it easier for us to appreciate your work.
5 Reviews
Got into SVU late, but I'm a fan now!
MrTAlanSmith1 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
One of my fave episodes so far. The scene during the chase in the park where Detective Benson slaps a dude after he does a karate pose is priceless. Laughed my butt off. Although the subject matter is never funny it just shows a more human side, when you run into little pissant, gunplay isn't always necessary or required.
Street Justice: From Snowball to Avalanche
yazguloner20 July 2021
The subject is street heroes who try to implement justice in their own way.
There is a reflection of the power of the press and the situation of easily becoming a mass and reacting, starting with social media.
It's nice that the neighbors do street justice, but the opportunists who want to use it among the neighbors confuse the situation.
It is inevitable that uncontrolled crowds turn from snowballs into avalanches.
An uncontrolled force is never a force!
Olivia and the neighborhood also applied uncontrolled force to the same suspect.
I like that Svu connects "these are their stories" and the story at the same time with small passwords.
If Elliot had done what Olivia did, we wouldn't have been so obsessed. Because he's the hero. Olivia is also the heroine... but she's a woman after all... unfortunately, sexist perspectives are most obsessed with women's behavior. What he does is not seen as heroic.
Actually, it should be. It is not befitting for either a male or female police officer to beat up a young person without following his book.
Nick's conversation with the officer he asked for research help... Oh my God!... is amazing.
Shout out to svu fans: You make clips of everything. Please, trim that scene and post it!!!
Ps. I'm a fan too but I hate those clips. I can't help but watch! This is not good. Because, the magic of the episodes I haven't watched escapes. But, some of your clips are great!
I can't keep my mouth shut about this story. A strange uncontrolled force in adoration.
There is a reflection of the power of the press and the situation of easily becoming a mass and reacting, starting with social media.
It's nice that the neighbors do street justice, but the opportunists who want to use it among the neighbors confuse the situation.
It is inevitable that uncontrolled crowds turn from snowballs into avalanches.
An uncontrolled force is never a force!
Olivia and the neighborhood also applied uncontrolled force to the same suspect.
I like that Svu connects "these are their stories" and the story at the same time with small passwords.
If Elliot had done what Olivia did, we wouldn't have been so obsessed. Because he's the hero. Olivia is also the heroine... but she's a woman after all... unfortunately, sexist perspectives are most obsessed with women's behavior. What he does is not seen as heroic.
Actually, it should be. It is not befitting for either a male or female police officer to beat up a young person without following his book.
Nick's conversation with the officer he asked for research help... Oh my God!... is amazing.
Shout out to svu fans: You make clips of everything. Please, trim that scene and post it!!!
Ps. I'm a fan too but I hate those clips. I can't help but watch! This is not good. Because, the magic of the episodes I haven't watched escapes. But, some of your clips are great!
I can't keep my mouth shut about this story. A strange uncontrolled force in adoration.
Camp vengeance
TheLittleSongbird23 June 2022
There are mysteries that do work well with comic book references and a lighter, more jovial tone. It is though dependent on the subject matter, fine if it fits with the basic style of the show in question but not so much when the subject is so grim in the fear of jarring tonally or people feeling that the subject isn't being taken seriously. That was my fear, and 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' did try a few times before to go down the intentionally camp/goofy route, but it didn't come off well and came over as strange.
Something that for me was the case with "Street Revenge". This is a difficult episode to rate and review because of trying to put into words what made it feel so odd. By all means, "Street Revenge" is not a terrible episode and it is always interesting when a different tone etc. Is attempted, but somehow it just didn't click or come together. As far as Season 13 goes, while not the worst episode it is in the lesser half when ranking the episodes (most being pretty good to great).
Am going to start with the good. It is a visually slick episode, typical for 'Special Victims Unit' and the 'Law and Order' franchise, and one with the right amount of muted grit, the photography doesn't try to do anything too fancy or gimmicky while not being claustrophobic and keeping things simple. The music doesn't overbear past the early stages with the theme tune still memorable. Some of the direction is skilled technically and in having fun.
Can't fault the regulars or the support acting. Also did enjoy the affectionate comic book references and the action was fun to watch and didn't look disorganised or dumb.
For all those good things, as said "Street Revenge" didn't come together as an overall whole. It is on the wrong side of campy too often and this does come over too awkwardly. The story is quite a serious subject, as is always the case with 'Special Victims Unit' and the franchise, but with the episode playing as too much of a comic book adaptation this got lost in translation. There is a severe lack of tension and an excessive overload instead of silliness, not to mention that nothing unpredictable happens.
Did find the dialogue very awkward and borderline juvenile too often and the more the case thins out (which it does later on) the draggier the pace gets. Amaro's subplot features too much and doesn't paint him in a good light, actually really liked him in all his previous episodes and found him a welcome addition but he comes over as controlling and over-angry. Also didn't buy how such a professional and by the book person like Cragen could slip up that badly at a press conference, that was not like him at all.
Very conflicted on this episode on the whole. 5/10.
Something that for me was the case with "Street Revenge". This is a difficult episode to rate and review because of trying to put into words what made it feel so odd. By all means, "Street Revenge" is not a terrible episode and it is always interesting when a different tone etc. Is attempted, but somehow it just didn't click or come together. As far as Season 13 goes, while not the worst episode it is in the lesser half when ranking the episodes (most being pretty good to great).
Am going to start with the good. It is a visually slick episode, typical for 'Special Victims Unit' and the 'Law and Order' franchise, and one with the right amount of muted grit, the photography doesn't try to do anything too fancy or gimmicky while not being claustrophobic and keeping things simple. The music doesn't overbear past the early stages with the theme tune still memorable. Some of the direction is skilled technically and in having fun.
Can't fault the regulars or the support acting. Also did enjoy the affectionate comic book references and the action was fun to watch and didn't look disorganised or dumb.
For all those good things, as said "Street Revenge" didn't come together as an overall whole. It is on the wrong side of campy too often and this does come over too awkwardly. The story is quite a serious subject, as is always the case with 'Special Victims Unit' and the franchise, but with the episode playing as too much of a comic book adaptation this got lost in translation. There is a severe lack of tension and an excessive overload instead of silliness, not to mention that nothing unpredictable happens.
Did find the dialogue very awkward and borderline juvenile too often and the more the case thins out (which it does later on) the draggier the pace gets. Amaro's subplot features too much and doesn't paint him in a good light, actually really liked him in all his previous episodes and found him a welcome addition but he comes over as controlling and over-angry. Also didn't buy how such a professional and by the book person like Cragen could slip up that badly at a press conference, that was not like him at all.
Very conflicted on this episode on the whole. 5/10.
Justice League
bkoganbing19 July 2015
This SVU episode got on the silly side, still it was good entertainment as a number of handicaps affect the SVU squad's ability to catch a serial rapist in the SOHO area of Manhattan.
For one thing there's a harassing news reporter played by David Pittu giving them grief on television. But worse than that some local neighborhood watch people get into the act by dressing up as superheroes and beating up one suspect that the squad arrested. As it turns out Michael James Levy was a copycat so the original is still out there.
It was fairly easy for me to figure out who was the doer, but it's Danny Pino on the show who tells the rest where they should be looking and why this guy can operate with impunity in the SOHO neighborhood.
For one thing there's a harassing news reporter played by David Pittu giving them grief on television. But worse than that some local neighborhood watch people get into the act by dressing up as superheroes and beating up one suspect that the squad arrested. As it turns out Michael James Levy was a copycat so the original is still out there.
It was fairly easy for me to figure out who was the doer, but it's Danny Pino on the show who tells the rest where they should be looking and why this guy can operate with impunity in the SOHO neighborhood.
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