I've been wondering why they're doing this Rollins pregnancy story. Especially after Rollins had said she didn't want children, and I believe that was just last season. Then I looked it up, and it's because Kelli Giddish was pregnant, so they simply worked it in the show so she could stick around longer. Duh!
That doesn't change the fact that it barely makes any sense for her character, but... I get it.
In watching this episode, an average viewer has some questions. Questions about their Departments of Child Services. Questions about what goes on in the shadows of high rise public housing and in the corners of their cities they never have to face. But, more immediately, the question becomes... what is Whoopi Goldberg doing in this episode? Well, that becomes clear when she delivers her biting monologue at the episode's conclusion. If SVU is an ideological, politically invested television show, it reveals itself more than ever as pushing a particular point of view here. And the point of view revealed by Goldberg is a valuable one. Whoever wrote her monologue deserves an award, and she deserves an Emmy for her delivery. The questions of genre and an actor's presence lead to confronting the harsh questions of the circumstance of Bruno and his family. Superlative television.
This is probably one of the most depressing SVU episodes I've seen in a while. Probably more depressing to me since a girl I went to school with got arrested a couple of months ago for keeping her two kids in makeshift cages even though DFACS was supposedly at the home two weeks before and saw nothing.
Whoopi Goldberg steals the spotlight in this one
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I love Barba. He never lets the bullies keep him from doing what needs to be done.