The cops get tangled in an elaborate online hoax that leads to the rape of a popular social media star. Meanwhile, Benson sets firm ground rules with Sheila.The cops get tangled in an elaborate online hoax that leads to the rape of a popular social media star. Meanwhile, Benson sets firm ground rules with Sheila.The cops get tangled in an elaborate online hoax that leads to the rape of a popular social media star. Meanwhile, Benson sets firm ground rules with Sheila.
Ice-T
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode was loosely based off the catfish episode that featured the case of basketball player Chris Andersen and Paris Dylan.
- Goofs21:35 The Clark County WV Sheriff is wearing a bronze shield and patch spelling out West Virginia (the state) at the bottom. Clark County sheriffs don't wear bronze shields, and the state is abbreviate (WV) on their uniform patch.
- Quotes
Amanda Rollins: [to Carisi] You know I'm human, right? And human people have sex. Sometimes with people they love and sometimes with people they don't even know.
- SoundtracksAs Long As It's Real
Performed by Raphael Lake, Aaron Levy, Dumi Maraire, Ambrose Arnold
Played when Katy texts her girlfriend, just before she meets Andy, The Monster
Featured review
Criminal Intent
"Intent" covers a very hard hitting topic that is also not easy to talk about or explore. It doesn't sound like new territory for 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit', especially considering what 'Special Victims Unit' is all about (or at least meant to be) but generally the show did it pretty well with exceptions. Remember on first watch being rather mixed on it, admired and appreciated that it tackled such a difficult and relevant issue but finding the story execution very flawed and not focused enough.
On rewatch, "Intent" fared slightly better, instead of just mixed it went up to moderately liked it but only just status, despite feeling similarly about what was good about it and what was not so good about. In ranking Season 19, "Intent" is somewhere in the middle. Really admired that a topic as scary as this was tackled and it needed to be in a way, and appreciated it, but at the same time there was room for it to be executed better than it turned out if the second half was as good as the first.
The good things will be talked about first. It is shot with the right amount of intimacy without being claustrophobic and that the editing has become increasingly tighter over-time has been great too. The music doesn't get intrusive or overwrought, even when the episode gets more dramatic. The direction doesn't try to do too much and is understated but never flat or unsure. The acting throughout is very good from all.
Writing is generally thought provoking and tight, not resorting to melodrama. Enough of the story compels and has some nice tension and intrigue to begin with, it was easy to care for what happens at the end. The first half is very intriguing. Rollins and Carisi are a great teaming and Barba as ever is a breath of fresh air.
Conversely, there is again too much of the Olivia and Noah plotline which slows down the episode too much. While there is some advancement, the subplot is pretty dull.
While finding it interesting on the whole and liking the first half, much of me didn't buy how the prime suspect so easily caved in and once the truth is revealed one answers out loud why too. The truth felt too much like a cheat, didn't think it particularly plausible that a plan so elaborate was carried out by the person in question and so expertly (i.e. The catfishing) considering their level of education.
In summary, uneven episode but liked it enough to moderately recommend it. 6/10.
On rewatch, "Intent" fared slightly better, instead of just mixed it went up to moderately liked it but only just status, despite feeling similarly about what was good about it and what was not so good about. In ranking Season 19, "Intent" is somewhere in the middle. Really admired that a topic as scary as this was tackled and it needed to be in a way, and appreciated it, but at the same time there was room for it to be executed better than it turned out if the second half was as good as the first.
The good things will be talked about first. It is shot with the right amount of intimacy without being claustrophobic and that the editing has become increasingly tighter over-time has been great too. The music doesn't get intrusive or overwrought, even when the episode gets more dramatic. The direction doesn't try to do too much and is understated but never flat or unsure. The acting throughout is very good from all.
Writing is generally thought provoking and tight, not resorting to melodrama. Enough of the story compels and has some nice tension and intrigue to begin with, it was easy to care for what happens at the end. The first half is very intriguing. Rollins and Carisi are a great teaming and Barba as ever is a breath of fresh air.
Conversely, there is again too much of the Olivia and Noah plotline which slows down the episode too much. While there is some advancement, the subplot is pretty dull.
While finding it interesting on the whole and liking the first half, much of me didn't buy how the prime suspect so easily caved in and once the truth is revealed one answers out loud why too. The truth felt too much like a cheat, didn't think it particularly plausible that a plan so elaborate was carried out by the person in question and so expertly (i.e. The catfishing) considering their level of education.
In summary, uneven episode but liked it enough to moderately recommend it. 6/10.
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- Dec 22, 2022
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