Crime
Drama
Mystery
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Top-rated
Thu,
13 Feb, 2020
S21.E14I Deserve Some Loving Too
Rollins goes undercover to root out a government worker withholding green cards in exchange for sex.
Top-rated
Thu,
20 May, 2021
S22.E14Post-Graduate Psychopath
Rollins must revisit an old case when a child sent to juvenile detention is released after his 18th birthday.
Mariska Hargitay
Olivia Benson
Ice-T
Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
Peter Scanavino
Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi Jr.
Octavio Pisano
Joe Velasco
Kevin Kane
Terry Bruno
Juliana Aidén Martinez
Kate Silva
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Review
Featured review
This series is a poster child for the way the US wants the world, to perceive its justice system.
Hard working, earnest police, backed by an imperfect but mostly well meaning, justice system.
Of course, if you look behind the veil nothing could be further from the truth. The justice system and not just in the US, mind you is abusive and broken. More often than not failing victims and on a certain level, criminals, who often started out as victims of its indifference and outright cruelty.
I find long running series like this one annoying, in so much as they largely, shore up establishment narratives, rather than exposing them, for what they are.
Acting is reasonable but feels a little forced and unrealistic, at times. Its not helped by rather predictably, formulaic characterisations.
In summary, I rate this series down not just because its somewhat formulaic and bland but because, in my view, it does the truth of the world we live in, a disservice. Things can only improve when reality is exposed for what it is, not buried beneath pro establishment, "the system mostly works" narratives.
MovieGuys17 Aug, 2024
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