User Reviews

SVU back to basics! I felt like I was watching the older seasons tonight. My heart was racing the entire time. The final scene was so good. Rollins played a minor role and had been absent a lot this season but she was the star in this episode.

I haven't watched SVU in years but I loved the original episode Ethan Cutkosky was in years ago so I wanted to watch this episode. Absolutely loved it- great acting all around. Ethan plays a psychopath so brilliantly (that's meant as a compliment even though it sounds super creepy to say) and it was fun to see a follow up on where a character is.

Like other reviews say this is a great episode , really had the vibe and atmosphere from the original SVU and not the style of the very average episodes from the last few years.

The first episode years ago was so good, I will always remember kid killers/psychopath episode because they are so creepy and the actors really stand out. To bring this storyline back was amazing!

This episode, and the episodes after, feel radically different from the rest of this season and possibly the season before it. This episode feels like classic SVU writing. It has a classic SVU plot. The previous episodes and season(s) had too much of a political feel to them, but not too much to put me off SVU completely. This episode came at just the right time because I was nearing my peak with the political tension plots, although they weren't done too badly, they were overdone at this point. And this episode is a true turning point. It feels like seeing an old friend and everything suddenly feeling like "the good old days", and then realizing you've been missing them way more than you thought. I've watched the last two episodes of season 22 and the first few episodes of season 23 and the political undertones are much lighter now. This is a welcomed change. Politics are a part of society (and institutions e.g. The NYPD) and politics were (and still are) at the forefront of American social discourse but it really started to feel overdone and repetitive.

My opinion, this has been the worst season I've watched. But I liked this episode. It reminded me of episodes from earlier seasons. Nothing about covid, nothing about anti-police, and anything else that as been going on in the world this last year. This was just a classic trying to find the killer before it's to late episode.

There has only been one really good episode this season, and this is it. That is not a good thing. It makes me think SVU has been on to long, and if I should even watch the two seasons that it has been renewed for.

Maybe the real writers came back, maybe the show saw the reviews and audience trends; but whatever it was, they managed to get a plot into this episode. Hope they can keep it up.

The little violent dork Henry Mesner appears in this episode, and he hasn't changed from eight years ago. I enjoyed the episode a lot, so I gave it a solid eight. Losers like Mesner belong institutionalized.

Oh what to rate this one? Do I give it an 8 because of the weak cheese political crap we've been getting, and I want to reward good behavior in the right direction? I dunno. This episode was better than anything they've given us in awhile. But so eye rolling cliche. "Life is closer to death than people realize" was one of the lines the psychopath drops in an attempt to be dark and misunderstood-again eye roll. Did the writers even try? Lame. But I wasn't violently disappointed like I have been the rest of this season.