Oh God, why do I put myself through such pain watching Season 22 of the Olivia Benson vanity show? I have never seen a previous multi Emmy award winning TV Drama series fall to such a pitiful low quality and predictable canned crime series. When this series first aired back in 1999, the series format was split equally between a crime being investigated and a suspect charged, and the second half of each episode was focused on the subsequent court case where sometimes the suspect charged was found not guilty, much to the shock of the audience. Nowadays, the entire show is focused solely on Olivia Benson and if I have seen that face of hers once, I have seen it a million times, with her jaw dropped, and her eyes staring blindly into space. The series has all but abandoned the original format of a 50/50 split between investigating and charging a suspect, with the latter half of each episode focused on the eventual court case.
In this Season 22, Episode 13, the 502nd episode of the long and (now extremely boring) running crime/drama series Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hartigay) brings in her old detective partner Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) for the interrogation of a suspect. I don't know how and why Elliot Stabler is introduced other than to self promote his new spinoff series Law & Order Organized Crime. Oh! Did I forget to mention that this Season 22 segues right into Elliot Stabler's own series with the unfortunate death of his wife?
Getting back to this particular episode in which the episode copies the feature film (2019) Hustlers which evolves around some strippers seducing then drugging their victim(s) it is a total waste of time. And of course Mariska Hartigay just can't help herself by inserting in this particular storyline that her own on screen brother was seduced and subsequently murdered by these bad girls. This leads to that oh so familiar face of discern on Olivia as she (once again as always) takes the case on herself. Uggggghhhh gag me with a spoon.
I give this episode a 3 out of 10 IMDB rating and I am absolutely done watching anymore of the Olivia Benson show. Please NBC. Please...please...please cancel this lousy show. It's Emmy days are long since gone.
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