Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) Zone Rouge (2024) User Reviews

Another Stray Taken In

[lurch394 · 23 February 2024]

Shanna Sykes is the new George Huang. There is a precedent for embedded FBI agents, so it's a little too convenient, but Jordana Spiro feels like a good addition. It will also make sense once Curry leaves: IAB promotes them fast, so maybe Renee needs to feel like a detective rather than a cheese-eater (h/t Sipowicz and Blue).

So we've got an ad hoc SVU: Bruno too rich to want to work full-time, Curry only there temporarily, and an FBI liaison with a hair trigger (like Stabler and Amaro). I'm sure Stabler and Rollins will still drop in to make us miss them, but so far Benson's putting together a new team.

Who knows how much longer the show will last? When 60-year-old Mariska Hargitay is chasing suspects, I wonder if this is the new Barnaby Jones.

Intensity Zone!!

[claycalderonblood · 10/10 · 3 March 2024]

The Intensity starts right away from the beginning! The first scene with the shot of the train going through the snow in New York is amazing! I literally felt like I was there and could touch the snow! As the story develops the pace just keeps you glued to the TV! I'm not used to the characters on SVU being intertwined with their cases so intensely, but this story is palpable and you could sense Marisa's emotional attachment to finding Maddie.

Moreover, the antagonist is so evil, he is on the same level of human scum as Hannibal Lector or Kevin Spacy from 7! This scum of the earth revels in his evil deeds! Trafficking minors into sex slaves is unimaginable but this story with its brilliant writing, directing and acting brings home the reality that these atrocities actual happen in our country.

Also, the way the use of fentanyl in drugging victims in sex trafficking was eye opening. I also learned a new sicko fetish of dendrophilia. It was a bittersweet conclusion to say the least as only one victim was rescued.

Zone Rogue

[bobcobb301 · 29 March 2024]

Jordana Spiro has turned more to dramatic roles after a long tenure on TBS' My Boys, but she does not seem to have found something that fits. If she becomes a permanent fixture in the SVU group it does not feel like it will work.

I am glad that the Maddie issue is over. I am glad the show tried something different and gave us a recurring arc, but it felt a little ridiculous the wrap-up. They had this guy evade cops for how long only to still ride the same train and make the same kind of mistakes? Jay Leno often highlighted how many stupid criminals there are, but this just felt like a cop out, no pun intended.