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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Return of the Prodigal Son (2021)
Episode 9, Season 22
Not the writing we deserve
3 April 2021 - 18 out of 41 users found this review helpful.
As lovely as it was to see Stabler and Benson back on-screen together, the episode was fumbled by soap opera-esque writing. The dialogue was slow and overworked, the score felt more like a 2010 cancer patient film than a hard-hitting crime-drama, and the focus of the show was pandering to viewers' expectations as opposed to solving the crime.
This decline in quality has been a slow burn over the past several seasons - switching from a fast-paced, procedural show that uses its format to explore the complexity of its criminal characters to an overwrought drama that is resting on its laurels and expecting it to be enough.
Liv and Elliott deserved better, and so did the fans.
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