A 19-year-old creates a hostage situation after his father is accused of sexual assault, and Olivia uses her personal experience to help defuse the situation.A 19-year-old creates a hostage situation after his father is accused of sexual assault, and Olivia uses her personal experience to help defuse the situation.A 19-year-old creates a hostage situation after his father is accused of sexual assault, and Olivia uses her personal experience to help defuse the situation.
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- TriviaThis episode marks the last appearance of Linus Roache as Michael Cutter in the Law & Order franchise.
- GoofsWhile searching Sandow's office Amaro finds a few prescription pill bottles, he says one of them is labeled "Quaalude". However methaqualone (Quaalude) was taken off the market in the US in 1982, and made a Schedule I controlled substance in 1984. It is also illegal in pretty much every country in the world and is not manufactured anymore, the only source of Quaaludes is from illegal drug labs. Ergo the Quualudes Sandow has would not have come from any pharmacy.
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DNA Tech Susan Chung: [to Olivia and Amaro] Your Jane Doe had a rough night. Prelim tox screen shows alcohol, Benadryl and Quaaludes. That combo will knock anyone on their ass.
Nick Amaro: Ludes. That's old school for someone her age.
Olivia Benson: Any sign of sexual assault?
DNA Tech Susan Chung: Gray pubic hairs and semen on her breasts.
Olivia Benson: Gray? The suspect's 20.
Nick Amaro: And he claims he only worked her coat.
DNA Tech Susan Chung: Oh, just getting to that. I found semen there too. I did ABO typing on both samples. One's from a secretor. One's not.
Nick Amaro: Sorry?
Olivia Benson: It's pre-DNA, Amaro. She's saying that there's two donors. The grinder was just an opportunist. So whoever gave her the Quaaludes assaulted her first.
"Father's Shadow" turned out to be a very good episode. Thought so on first watch, and my feelings are the same still now. It does fall short of absolute greatness and was so close to being, until one part was not as good as the rest of the episode. It was very interesting to see a different side to Michael McKean and do it as well as he did and nearly everything is done incredibly well. Flaws are very few, but the couple of flaws there are are big enough to bring things down a bit.
Am going to start with the good. It is as ever shot with the right amount of intimacy without feeling too up close, even with a reliance of close up camerawork. That the editing has become increasingly tighter over-time is great too. The music isn't over-scored, manipulative or used too much. There is intimacy and tautness in the direction. The script is intelligent and lean with no signs of fat.
On the most part, the story is tense and suspenseful (even when the truth is not a surprise), intriguing to have a crime happening days before the SVU's involvement rather than on the day (the latter usually being the case up to this point of the show). The regulars are all fine, especially Mariska Hargitay with the meatiest material where her steel and empathy shines. Am another person who actually thought that Olivia was the one that made the most sense and the one that most cared in this dire situation. McKean plays a sleaze of a character so unsettlingly, a far cry from his roles in 'This is Spinal Tap' and 'Clue'. Also felt bad for Cameron Monaghan's character. Robert Kleenex is good value too.
However, not everything works. The Olivia and Haden subplot was not needed and Harry Connick Jr is still stiff and lacking in anything that makes his character in any way appealing.
Did find the climax too on the dragged out and contrived side.
Concluding, very well done. 8/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Jun 22, 2022