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7/10
Not my favorite finale but not as bad as everyone says
jbe-6699520 September 2018
Oh no a cop who has been working sex crimes for over 20 years is correct!!! That makes sense? Her gut instinct is what has carried this show. Yeah, she was right, because she's got more experience than every other person on the show combined. Especially the new crappy ADA. However I will say as someone who has studied PTSD for the majority of my career, PTSD does NOT resemble psychosis or manifest as psychosis if there isn't another psychotic disorder in play. But SVU has always played fast and loose with ptsd.
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6/10
A deadly criminal enterprise
bkoganbing28 May 2018
SPOILER: Continuing over from the previous episode Genesis Rodriguez who took Carlos Miranda and others as hostages is now arrested for the homicide of the man Miranda was living with. He is in fact high up in a deadly Mexican cartel, folks who really get off on torture and death.

These folks think they can operate just like they do in Latin America with wholesale killing of law enforcement and their families. The climax shootout with one of their assassins proves tragic.

One of the hostages from the previous story shows his true face. It's a frightening face indeed for Carlos Miranda.

Nice to see Carolyn McCormick back as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet. Genesis Rodriguez will need all the help she can get for an insanity defense.

Better than the first episode of this two parter.
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8/10
Remember Me Too
bobcobb30111 June 2018
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The show gave us a big moment here for the season finale and we also got one of the most graphic scenes in history. Pam going down felt like something out of an HBO show, not NBC.

This was a good case and an entertaining conclusion to the season. I know that some people want a finale that rings true to the series and is just like any other episode. That's not what they went for here, hence the polarizing response.
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9/10
Great story though some not so great acting
ZaFeesh24 May 2018
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My only complaint about this episode and the last is the sub-par acting of Genesis Rodriguez (Lourdes Vega), it's like she was trying too hard, she didn't seem to convey genuine emotions, everything felt forced and fake. Other than that I thought this was a great conclusion to a fantastic two-part episode story-arch. It did an excellent job of showing how a person's experience can greatly affect how they see a given situation. Lt. Benson, being a 19 year veteran of SVU and a rape survivor herself was quick to believe the rape victim and wouldn't even consider the possibility of Jorge Diaz being innocent. While on the other hand ADA Stone, coming from a family of lawyers and being a firm believer in the law and our criminal justice system, believed that it would be wrong to arrest someone for a crime without having any evidence, regardless of what anyone's personal feelings and instinct told them. This causes Benson and Stone to butt heads on the issue, with Olivia having no doubts as to the victim telling the truth about what happened to her or about Jorge's guilt. Whereas Stone, who did believe the victim's story, questioned whether she was mistaking Jorge with the man who did rape her. It's a good reminder of the things that can go wrong when people decide they know something for certain regarding a series of events that they didn't actually witness, as Stone points out it would be wrong to make accusations or arrest Jorge without having any evidence because it could mean ruining the life and reputation of a person that might be innocent, which happens all too often. While Olivia turns out to be right about Jorge, Stone was right to hold off on charging him without knowing the facts first, after all one of the principle tenants of our criminal justice system is that it is better for ten guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to be imprisoned.
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5/10
Inconsistent
erikku_shinsengumi13 June 2018
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In one episode Benson tells Alex Cabot that she can't do justice by her own hand. But in this one the victim kills a man and she can walk away without any kind of punish. I know the guy was a "bad hombre", but you just can't kill someone and pretend nothing happened.

The whole season was meh, so I'm not surprised that the finale was the same.
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2/10
The Moral Is...Benson Is Never Wrong
bababear25 May 2018
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Let me start with saying that this is my favorite dramatic show on TV. The writing is usually excellent, the subject matter timely, and the actors at the top of their game.

That's why it's a shame that the season finale be such a complete misfire.

A bad performance by a young lady named Genesis Rodriguez is the main problem. She may be a capable actress, but nothing I saw tonight indicated that. The premise of the show is that she is at a club where she spots a man she knows from her past.. She recognizes him; he seems to have no idea who she is. She winds up kidnapping him at gunpoint and tying him up and torturing him.

The story is what I would describe as a casserole. A bunch of random ingredients- human trafficking, organized crime on both sides of the border, fear of deportation, another kidnapping, etc.- get run through a blender and half baked.

The worst thing is how predictable it is because Benson cannot be wrong. She believes the young woman and is willing to defend her in her actions, including killing a man she knocks unconscious and leaves untreated for a lengthy time, because her "Spidey sense" or whatever says that the young lady's hugely improbable story is true.

Better luck next season, Law and Order: SVU.
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1/10
Olivia is Unbearable
VioletViolette29 October 2019
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I usually love Olivia, but wow, I was SCREAMING at the TV, at her. She was incredibly dumb for someone with so much experience. Constantly hounding Stone to drop all the charges as if that's possible, and blindly believing the "victim" before any proof. Terribly frustrating to watch.

The "victim" killed someone. Meaning to or not. Killing someone, ANYONE is against the law. Olivia was acting like some moron off the street rather than a lieutenant. It was not empathy, it was stupidity and blind belief.

I love SVU but wow, this episode and the previous one were so bad!
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1/10
Benson is ALWAYS right
kat129869 June 2018
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I looooove SVU but ever since Benson has been LT, her character is off the rails annoying with her self-righteous morality. She's always right when it comes everything. Lourdes freaking killed someone. She deserves to go trial. I feel that Benson's obnoxious self-righteousness is ruining this show and watching her berate ADA Stone about morality and the law just makes me want to stop watching this. oh god. don't get me started on the sob story of illegal immigrants. Lourdes complains about having be smuggled into the states and raped while her rapist was brought over as a baby and then pardoned through DACA. I don't care what your politics are but I want to watch a show about sex crimes and crazy stuff, not be preached to about the morality of our immigration system. Also, if she's LT, the leader of the unit why is always in the field? Cragen was hardly ever out in the field.
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1/10
I want my time back...
Szewczm-11-39232524 May 2018
What a huge disappointment, although this shows has gone up and down through the years these last two episodes have really hit rock bottom, driven mainly by the lack of acting, filled instead by a whole bunch of screaming. I really hope they turn things around... at least Ice-T always delivers a solid performance.
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3/10
So done with SVU
josephfrullaney29 May 2018
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I've been watching since season 1 but the last two seasons have been horrible. Every episode has some reference to NBC's left wing agenda. Agree or disagree a crime drama should not be a platform for politics. This episode was filler and did not need to be 90 minutes. Bensons character needs to retire. In the real world of law enforcement which I have been in for over 25 years, once someone lets their personal opinions interfere with their ability to carry out their duties it's time to go. Are we really supposed to believe that Benson condones manslaughter and is uncooperative on the witness stand because the perp was the victim of a different crime in a different state? SVU would have you believe that the NYPD can arrest anyone for any crime that happens anywhere in the world. I used to say that SVU was the most accurate depiction of the NYPD but they've certainly abandoned that mindset in favor of spinning the political story of the day. ADA Barba pulling the plug last season was very hard to swallow and this season was just a continuation of the same nonsensical drama. The Peter Stone character has grown on me and so far is fairly believable. Finn remains a constant and is the only reminder of what SVU once was. At least we still have reruns of the Stabler era. R.I.P Law & Order SVU.
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3/10
A season finale worth forgetting
TheLittleSongbird9 February 2023
Season 19 didn't really wow me all that much. There were two very good episodes, "Mama" and "Gone Baby Gone", and a small handful of pretty good ones. Most of the season however for me was slightly above average or below, with the weakest episodes "No Good Reason", "In Loco Parentis", "Send in the Clowns" and the "Remember Me" episodes being pretty much misfires. While my first watch of "Remember Me Too" was not as bad as "Remember Me's", it was not good at all.

On rewatch, "Remember Me Too" is still not good at all. If anything, it was very weak and like the previous episode it is as bad as the worst of Season 18, which is not a good sign and a position that none of the subsequent seasons should have gone but actually did so. Despite having the lower rating here, to me "Remember Me Too" actually was ever so marginally better than "Remember Me". The problems were similar and again worse in quality and quantity than on first watch, but it isn't as repetitive.

"Remember Me Too" has a few good things. The production values are slick and gritty. The music avoided just about being too heavy on the melodrama or being intrusive.

Did think too that the regular acting was marginally better, despite their material being severely lacking. Not as much going through the motions, with a couple of exceptions.

Mariska Hargitay though has been much better elsewhere, she doesn't have as much steel or vulnerability as before and even since and her acting was in the last two episodes of Season 19 limited to two or three at most expressions. Phillip Winchester is still wooden and flatter than an undercooked pancake and Stone has little presence as a character. Olivia's attitude is intolerable, haven't cared for her character writing for most of the season but it is at its worst here and in "Remember Me". Especially in her I'm always right confrontational attitude towards Stone. Her attitude here makes her attitude towards Cabot in "Sunk Cost Fallacy" hypocritical (seeing as she is guilty here of what she reprimands Cabot for doing and even condones a crime that in the early years she would have banged people to rights for).

Not only is the dialogue less than taut, melodramatic and bland, it is also pretty preachy and condescending. Especially Olivia's, which actually was a common problem in Season 19. The story feels dull and over-stretched (a story that feels at least 15 minutes too long) and is further hurt by a severe lack of suspense, excessive predictability and an ending that is absurd as one can get (calling it that in fact is an understatement). Didn't find myself caring for the characters and the support acting is at best nothing special and easy to forget in the long run.

In summary, very weak ending to an unexceptional season. 3/10.
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1/10
Going to Join the Pile On
jchiar-6021928 December 2022
I agree this is one ot fhe worst episodes ever. The plot, the actions of the principles, the political sanctimony made the whole thing painful to watch. Benson insists based on instincts this the rape victim is correct and breaks all kinds of rules to get her way. By all rights she should have been suspended for her actions. The DA doesn't report a mobster threatened his sister, another violation. The rape victim kills an innocent bystander and is allowed to walk.

There is an absurd scene where the rape victim complains her illelgal entry in the United States was SO MUCH harder than the illegal entry of her rapist. "My father had to use a mask and gun to rob the bank! Susie's father is a teller and just embezzled the money! It isn't fair!"

A police detail is ambushed and killed despite plenty of warning the mob would be coming for the DA's sister. In the final scene the cops have to fire about 500 bullets to kill one man, and don't get the hostage out alive anyway. If this is how real police officers and DAs operate, we might as well surrender to the Chinese and Russians now and get it over with.

All in all, a pathetic and embarrassing effort all around. Maybe we should watch reruns of "Cop Rock."
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3/10
What happened to the writers this season?
mmmtastysandwhich7 June 2023
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Benson is an absolute crazy person at the drop of a hat in this episode. Thinks revenge is fine, immediately believes someone for a completely unbelievable story despite there being no evidence.

In earlier episodes this season, Rollins is completely nuts and inappropriate in response to a prostitute, despite having dealt with them many times before. Barba decides, basically on a whim, to mercy kill a baby.

I get that this is supposed to be a dramatic show where the cops are also who we're following, not just the serial nature of the stories, but holy moly did this season go off the soap opera rails.

This episode was peak melodrama and heightening for the sake of heightening, and the worst thing is you don't believe any of the performances. A mix of bad acting and terrible writing. Astounding.
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