11/1/2022 0 Comments Svu lunacy![]() I love SVU - and, even when SVU is far below its prime, the result is usually still competent and perfectly watchable. Stabler gets into a fist fight with someone? Bingo! Anyway, I'm definitely not out to rail on the series. Suspect gets shot and killed in the precinct by someone acquainted with the victim? Yup, and this one was definitely old by the 5th time they did it. Eccentric dude comes up as a suspect, but turns out to be a fairly harmless weirdo? Got that too. Junkie comes up as a suspect because he found the victim's credit card? Yup. Solving an unrelated case in the beginning of the investigation/episode? Got it. Hell, I think this would be a good episode for a tongue-in-cheek game of SVU bingo. Svu lunacy series#Frankly, this episode does illustrate many of the flaws with SVU, and it doesn't really illustrate any of the things I love about the series either. The predictability of the plot also means that I spent no time anywhere near the edge of my seat. I think this episode also fails to tell a coherent story, and it consequently fails to evoke any real emotion. ![]() Maybe this is just from seeing so many different SVU episodes, but the writers almost *never* have an episode revolve around a character like this and in this capacity unless he/she has something to with the crime in question. I saw the plot twist coming less than halfway through the episode, first of all. In all, I think this was a very formulaic SVU episode - it feels a bit like they phoned it in. As it turns out, Finley was the murderer all along. The investigation goes in many different directions, partially due to leads from Finley. Finley is eager to help in any way he can, and he plays an active role in the investigation. During the course of the investigation, Stabler becomes reacquainted with one of his friends/heroes from the Marines (who is also an astronaut), Richard (Dick) Finley. In this episode, a famous astronaut's body is found in the Hudson. ![]() In conclusion, worth the watch but there was a better episode in there somewhere that doesn't quite come into proper fruition. Some of the fight choreography is clumsy. Particularly obvious is the major reveal, which was easily guessable too early (like at the halfway mark). The story does have its moments but it is also pretty predictable in parts later and not an awful lot leaves one floored. Did think that there were too many red herrings and they eventually over-complicated the story a bit. On the other hand, "Lunacy" could have been a good deal more. ![]() Fin and Munch are a joy in their (too) short screen time and we also have the bonus of an amazing looking Olivia. Chris Elliott is good too as is the steely intensity of Christopher Meloni. Have no issues with the acting, Brolin is reliably strong though his character could have been less obvious. There is some intriguing and tight scripting in the middle and enough of the red herrings are interesting and unexpected. There is some suitably cotrolled yet tense direction when necessary. The music is used sparingly and is haunting and non-overwrought when it is used, and it's mainly used when a crucial revelation or plot development is revealed. The photography and such as usual are fully professional, the slickness still remaining. Am going to start listing the good things. ![]() Season 10 did show improvement with the previous episode "Swing" after starting off rocky but "Lunacy" is a step backwards. It is far from a terrible episode and has a lot of good things, at the same it could have been better and should not have been the uneven episode that it turned out. "Lunacy" however as an episode is not so great and doesn't live up so much. While his character is not a subtle one, Brolin's guest turn is great and lives up to the hype. "Lunacy" is one of those cases where the guest performance was better than the episode itself. It is hard to not expect a good deal when a guest star for anything gets a lot of attention, and that can be said for James Brolin. When it came to the episodes overall, there were a number that were worthy of the guest star in question but there were also a number where the guest star was a lot better than the episode and deserved better. There are a number of 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' episodes that had highly publisised guest stars, many of them more than living up to the hype. ![]()
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