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jennkrouse
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Identity (2005)
Episode 12, Season 6
Not all that clever
8 September 2014 - 5 out of 32 users found this review helpful.
The reviews for this episode think the writing is so clever. However, what they don't know is the entire episode is based on a book about the life of David Reimer, called As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl.
The entire episode, except the rape/murder that sets it all off, follow the book almost verbatim, including most of the twist at the end. They did not murder the therapist in real life, like they do in the episode, but they unfortunately suffered the same abuse at the hand of their therapist. Both brother committed suicide in their 30s. It was such a disturbing and sad story.
I love SVU, but they totally stole the sad story of these brothers' lives on this one...
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