Rollins' sister stirs up trouble and a possible SVU investigation when she reports a doctor who trades prescription painkillers for sex.Rollins' sister stirs up trouble and a possible SVU investigation when she reports a doctor who trades prescription painkillers for sex.Rollins' sister stirs up trouble and a possible SVU investigation when she reports a doctor who trades prescription painkillers for sex.
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- TriviaFirst appearance of Lindsay Pulsipher as Kim Rollins since season 18's Heightened Emotions (2016).
- GoofsWhen Kim gets out of the car it shows her ankle monitor as slightly loose and over her sock. In reality, it would have to be snug against her leg with direct contact to her skin.
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Katriona Tamin: Needle down, hands up.
Nurse: I'm sorry, Dr. Capezio. They're cops.
Dr. Paul Capezio: What's this about?
Odafin Tutuola: Like you don't know. Zip up. You're going downtown.
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'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' "Eternal Relief from Pain" (2020)
Opening thoughts: Of all the Season 21 episodes, "Eternal Relief from Pain" was the one watched with the lowest expectations on first watch. Not because of the case, which did sound interesting, but the return of Rollins' truly annoying sister Kim filled me with dread. None of the Rollins family drama storylines have worked at all for me, and reading the synopsis that indicated such heavy emphasis on it part of me was convinced that the episode was going to be a major failure.
To my surprise, on first watch "Eternal Relief from Pain" was nowhere near as bad as expected. It was a heavily flawed episode and the execution of the family drama was pretty much what was expected, but the case was so strong this time that it was enough to make the episode above average. On recent rewatch, "Eternal Relief from Pain" still is the very uneven and flawed episode it was on first watch, but like first watch what could and should have been a total disaster didn't turn out to be too bad. And it is certainly miles better than the pretty bad previous episode "Swimming with the Sharks".
Good things: Am going to start with the good. Visually the episode is solid and it is neither static or gimmicky in the way it's filmed. The music doesn't jar and is suitably melancholic, didn't find it too much either. The acting is mostly very good, particularly from Kelli Giddish. The dialogue in the case story is tight, thoughtful and isn't mundane or preachy.
"Eternal Relief from Pain" is compensated massively by the case. If the case hadn't have been as good as it turned out, this episode would have been a dud. It deals with a very tough subject and handles it uncompromisingly and also insightfully and movingly, it also isn't thin or over stuffed and neither is it too easy to figure out or confusing.
Bad things: Unfortunately, the Rollins family drama subplot brings the episode down massively. There is far too much emphasis on it and it suffers from the usual problems whenever Rollins' family life rears its ugly head. It is far too melodramatic, is dully paced, doesn't have much going on in it and what there is has no surprises and lacks tension.
Kim as ever is terribly annoying and overacted and have always disliked how naive and easily manipulated Rollins comes over as in these storylines. That she is that much so and has anything to do with Kim has always been a major credibility stretch. The dialogue is over heated in this subplot too.
Closing thoughts: Very uneven episode, with one great story and one rather bad story but it could have been so much worse.
6/10.
Opening thoughts: Of all the Season 21 episodes, "Eternal Relief from Pain" was the one watched with the lowest expectations on first watch. Not because of the case, which did sound interesting, but the return of Rollins' truly annoying sister Kim filled me with dread. None of the Rollins family drama storylines have worked at all for me, and reading the synopsis that indicated such heavy emphasis on it part of me was convinced that the episode was going to be a major failure.
To my surprise, on first watch "Eternal Relief from Pain" was nowhere near as bad as expected. It was a heavily flawed episode and the execution of the family drama was pretty much what was expected, but the case was so strong this time that it was enough to make the episode above average. On recent rewatch, "Eternal Relief from Pain" still is the very uneven and flawed episode it was on first watch, but like first watch what could and should have been a total disaster didn't turn out to be too bad. And it is certainly miles better than the pretty bad previous episode "Swimming with the Sharks".
Good things: Am going to start with the good. Visually the episode is solid and it is neither static or gimmicky in the way it's filmed. The music doesn't jar and is suitably melancholic, didn't find it too much either. The acting is mostly very good, particularly from Kelli Giddish. The dialogue in the case story is tight, thoughtful and isn't mundane or preachy.
"Eternal Relief from Pain" is compensated massively by the case. If the case hadn't have been as good as it turned out, this episode would have been a dud. It deals with a very tough subject and handles it uncompromisingly and also insightfully and movingly, it also isn't thin or over stuffed and neither is it too easy to figure out or confusing.
Bad things: Unfortunately, the Rollins family drama subplot brings the episode down massively. There is far too much emphasis on it and it suffers from the usual problems whenever Rollins' family life rears its ugly head. It is far too melodramatic, is dully paced, doesn't have much going on in it and what there is has no surprises and lacks tension.
Kim as ever is terribly annoying and overacted and have always disliked how naive and easily manipulated Rollins comes over as in these storylines. That she is that much so and has anything to do with Kim has always been a major credibility stretch. The dialogue is over heated in this subplot too.
Closing thoughts: Very uneven episode, with one great story and one rather bad story but it could have been so much worse.
6/10.
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