Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueAfter a young boy dies during a church vigil, Tutuola and Munch investigate the boy's foster parents and social worker for neglect.After a young boy dies during a church vigil, Tutuola and Munch investigate the boy's foster parents and social worker for neglect.After a young boy dies during a church vigil, Tutuola and Munch investigate the boy's foster parents and social worker for neglect.
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- Special Agent Dr. George Huang, M.D.
- (as B.D. Wong)
- TARU Technician Miguel Cruz
- (as Jose Zuniga)
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- AnecdotesPilar Witherspoon has played three different roles over the course of the series:
- Episode 17.8 Melancholy Pursuit (2015) - Helen Ryan
- Episode 5.18 Careless (2004) - Julia Hynton
- Episode 5.2 Manic (2003) - Julia Hynton
- Episode 2.10 Consent (2001) - Officer Owens
- GaffesWhen Fin and Munch were talking to M.E. Warner, Fin walks near a dead body, Jamie, and the body's foot moves right when the camera pans over.
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Elliot Stabler: What about that autistic kid in Milwaukee last year? Parishioners held him down, they were laying on top of him to cure him.
Olivia Benson: That could explain the ring mark.
[walks around behind Cragen and wraps her arms around him to demonstrate]
Olivia Benson: Someone holds Jamie, he struggles, they hold him tighter.
Capt. Donald Cragen: [a little breathless] Until he can't breathe.
[Olivia removes her arms and walks around in front of him]
Capt. Donald Cragen: Thank you, I enjoyed that.
"Careless" is another great episode. It is not one of the best episodes of Season 5, as far as the previous episodes go "Loss", "Control", "Shaken", "Ritual" and "Mean" were superior episodes. As one expects (in a way) from 'Special Victims Unit', "Careless" is hard-hitting and it is a very emotional and shocking episode. Yet also a truly fine one with so many great things. Anybody that likes Fin and likes it when there is more of him, or development to him, should love the episode, though "Ritual" did in my view did it better.
A lot of things are done brilliantly in "Careless". On a visual level, the episode is solid and the intimacy of the photography doesn't get static or too filmed play-like. The music when used is not too over-emphatic and has a melancholic edge that is quite haunting. The direction is sympathetic enough without being leaden, while having enough momentum to make the drama sing in its atmosphere.
The script is tight and has always made me think long and hard after (most 'Special Victims Unit' episodes do), with grit, class and tact. While it was clear which side the writers were on in their portrayal of the foster care system (understandably when taking into account that the system was in scrutiny at that time), it was not done in too one-sided a way and reinforces truthfully that the foster care system and foster care parents have failings from time to time. The moral dilemmas of the case and subject are written honestly yet not too heavy-handedly.
Moreover, "Careless" has a very absorbing story. That is incredibly emotional with an outcome that makes one both sad and angry, and it doesn't sugarcoat the matter. Did appreciate the development to Fin and how the case affects him, without it being too soap-operatic, another episode to show that he has a sympathetic side to him as well as a tough side. Admittedly, in real life he would not have gotten away with what he does here (my one criticism of the episode).
Have no issues with any of the acting, with Ice-T showing that when he has particularly meaty material and when he isn't underused and has more than showing a tough person in action and comic relief that he can bring nuance as well as intensity to Fin. CCH Pounder and Julie Hagerty are excellent as well.
In conclusion, great. 9/10
- TheLittleSongbird
- 31 déc. 2020