sonya-67 Reviews

The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984)

Excellent film!

[10/10 · 22 March 2010]

This is one of the most delightful miniseries I've ever seen! We've watched it as a family as part of a unit study on the Olympics. I thought we would learn the history of the first Olympics, but we learned that and so much more. We also discovered an engaging, entertaining, funny, perfect family film.

There are a few curse words here and there - such as calling someone an "a**," but this was certainly not overbearing. The humor inserted into the film was great.

I would highly recommend this to anyone!

Sonya

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Gone (2006) Season 7, Episode 16

Great episode!

[10/10 · 9 September 2009]

This episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last minute. I don't want to give away any details that would make this comment a spoiler, but I will say that I really enjoyed this episode. It was well-written and obviously the acting was terrific - as always. The only bad thing about this episode was that Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay, one of my favorite actresses) was barely present. Since it focused more on the court scenes than the actual police work, I guess she and Elliot had a break this week!

I started watching Special Victims Unit several years ago and have been hooked ever since. My husband and I used to watch it together, but we don't have time to do that now. Still, we've seen most episodes, but I wanted to watch them all again so recently I started at the beginning and thanks to Netflix, I started with season one and I'm now on season 7. Too bad I didn't think to start writing reviews when I was on season one!

Sonya :)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Blast (2006) Season 7, Episode 13

Dr. Melinda Warner (Tamara Tunie) assists Elliot on this case...

[9/10 · 8 September 2009]

After a young girl was kidnapped on the way home from school and her blood is found in a van, Dr. Melinda Warner (Tamara Tunie) discovers that the girl has leukemia. Dr. Warner goes to discuss this with the parents and quickly becomes involved in the case since the kidnapper calls while Warner is at the parents' home. It's nice to watch Tamara Tunie in this episode as she works with Elliot Stabler to try to find the missing girl and then the kidnapper.

Special Victims Unit became my favorite television series many years ago for several reasons, but mainly because of the excellent writing and acting. I can usually not only guess what is going to happen in a movie (or TV show), but can even predict the actual dialogue. That gets old. With Special Victims Unit, you never know what's going to happen, which is great! As for the actors and actresses, this is a fabulous cast of both.

Sonya Haskins