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an expected ending given the (very, very loosely followed) source material, but good. i get why this role messed with tom holland so much and that's the main reason i don't mind how much they changed for the series; i don't think the reality would've been easier on an actor. he also brought a believability to the diagnosis which is still disputed to this day. (i do think it's a valid disorder in rare cases of severe childhood abuse given its history, but boy is there also some bullshit out there.)

i also really appreciate the ending for how they had rya talk about the balance of the closeness of the therapist–patient relationship and the importance of not holding onto it when it's reached an end, for either side. this was a pretty good representation of therapy, and i've seen some shitty and irresponsible characterizations of it, so that matters to me.

ranjit's actor's monologue about the war was incredible tbh

my opinions of candy are complicated and conflicting so instead i just want to say tom holland didn't have a word of dialogue in this episode and he still devastated me in that courtroom

LMAO WAIT IM SORRY, DETECTIVE MUSTARD SAID WHAT ABOUT WOMEN???????

still havent read the books but tbh jason mantzoukas as a cranky sober dionysus is inspired either way

every episode's cliffhanger makes me suffer more than the last one what the HELL

rahul is generally incredible, but the monologue he gives in this is just next level.

tbh this show made me invested in an extended scene about fixing a generator so i'm here for it

natalie holt's scores give me SO many goosebumps

when she started laughing hysterically at herself having a panic attack, i Felt That.

ming-na wen is so wonderful :sob:

oh man directors are so slick i've never known anything about this situation so the twist in this was like "EXCUSE ME IS THIS ALLOWED?"

i know we have to have lawyers but i think buchanan is the only one on svu that is an irredeemable piece of garbage.

DAVID HARBOUR I NEVER KNEW U WERE ON SVU

with that last scene i 100% understand why tom holland said this role fucked him up

i like the commitment to maroun's character. she's terrifying when it comes to her personal set of morals.

emily van camp i wonder if she affected that higher pitched voice since she was 20 in this episode and definitely has a lower pitch in like every other thing i've watched her in.

this episode is literally 16 years old who would've thought it would just get a million times worse :sob:

since the episode didn't include any kind of note at the end, i want to give anyone else watching a quick reminder that those police officers did in fact speak like that to the operator and that their homophobia was not dramatized. if anything, this series has had to play down some of the details of the actual events for the sake of palatable television.

sandra smith and nicole childress were black women, konerak simthasomphone was from laos, and these officers and dahmer were white. there is a reason that konerak was brought back to dahmer's apartment that night. there's a reason those police officers didn't bother to investigate the smell of decomposition in dahmer's apartment. this was racism and homophobia, plain and simple.

"fun" fact: officer balcerzak was made president of the milwaukee police department in 2005, and retired in 2017 with full benefits and pension. the milwaukee department even posted a tweet congratulating him on his "service."

yo that romantic tension is insane but can we talk about that orchestral rendition of you oughta know because it is B O M B

this show does an incredible job of visually representing dissociative states. along with everything else, but fuck.

i love when men get up up in arms about violence and sex crimes against women and specifically say it's because they have a daughter. like. why do you need to have a daughter to suddenly care about women.

my biggest takeaway from this episode is that they don't know what STARS are

i cried a lot thanks kate siegel

maybe i'm being too simple-minded about this but. just cut off her hand

carla gugino has been killing it all this time but that last scene MAN i have never been more frightened and attracted to a woman in my life

i haven't even finished the episode yet but god victoria pedretti is SO FUCKING GOOD in her sequence

i really, really hope this kid lives a safe and fulfilling life from here on out. he deserves it.

i sure love when men need to be reminded that women are human beings by someone pointing out that they have a sister/mother/daughter, because you know, if you don't have a female relative how could you possibly care about a woman being sexually assaulted