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."
"i know what i must do" - said every man, about to do something without actually thinking about any of the consequences
i want to give edwina a hug
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
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
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.
natalie holt's scores give me SO many goosebumps
ranjit's actor's monologue about the war was incredible tbh
maybe i'm being too simple-minded about this but. just cut off her hand
my biggest takeaway from this episode is that they don't know what STARS are
i cried a lot thanks kate siegel
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.
to be clear i don't mean this as a slight against a victim in this story but can we seriously take a moment to address the weird familial obligation behavior of bailing dangerous/unstable relatives out of bad situations (or quite literally bailing them out) but drawing an arbitrary line because they're dangerous/unstable? speaking from experience here: just don't help them period. don't do it. stop it. don't bail your violent relative out of jail, they're violent. even if they didn't hurt you, they're a danger to everyone else who crosses paths with them while out on the street.
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
truly one of the most harrowing episodes of svu. i've seen it a few times during marathons and even knowing the ending i spend the entire thing in total distress
this is the only thing i want to see militarized police doing from now on: freeing exotic animals from unhinged white people
god i love how awful the cgi in this show can be
seriously when will we change our legal system to account for chronic abuse, not just acute "immediate danger" abuse? it's been a long fucking time coming
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.
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
ok fine i guess cutting her hand off wasn't gonna work.
the acting in this episode is top tier tbh
this belongs to that weird category of thriller/horror stuff that's rooted entirely too much in the banality of day to day life that gives me anxiety and yet catch me starting the second episode already
when she started laughing hysterically at herself having a panic attack, i Felt That.
"fucking brian" honestly bless this show going streaming service over primetime
i would really like for angelina to be gone now. like she doesn't need to exist for the show to have plenty of storylines to work with and she's just. so intolerable
also joe and his son seeing each other for the first time in 8 months really got me in my feelings tbh
