A retired professional football star is captured on surveillance video knocking out his longtime girlfriend, but the victim is reluctant to leave his side.A retired professional football star is captured on surveillance video knocking out his longtime girlfriend, but the victim is reluctant to leave his side.A retired professional football star is captured on surveillance video knocking out his longtime girlfriend, but the victim is reluctant to leave his side.
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Ice-T
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
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Did you know
- GoofsWhen Barba says that A.J. Martin is guilty of reckless endangerment because he showed a gross disregard for his wife's safety and created a situation that could have caused serious injury to her, Martin's attorney says that they are not pleading guilty to a felony. However what Barba described is reckless endangerment in the second degree, which is a class A misdemeanor. In order for reckless endangerment in the first degree to be charged a person has to show a depraved indifference to human life and create a situation that is likely to cause the death of a person, it is a class D felony. However Martin did not put his wife's life at risk, just her safety, meaning his actions do not constitute felony reckless endangerment.
- Quotes
Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: [to Rollins] Listen, I learned two things in my 15 years here at SVU. One: you can't take this job home to you.
Amanda Rollins: Working on that.
Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Two: you can't take anyone from this job home with you.
- ConnectionsReferences TMZ on TV (2007)
Featured review
Lacklustre privilege
Season 16 did quite a number of ripped from the headlines type episodes, most of the previous episodes were. The execution varied throughout the season, with most falling in the too over-familiar, too faithful to the case (some still being fresh in the mind) and heavy handed category. On first watch, "Spousal Privilege" fell into this category, though not one of the worst examples, and it didn't do much for me as an overall episode of 'Special Victims Unit' or for anything.
My feelings are still the same unfortunately, overall, positives and negatives. By all means, "Spousal Privilege" is not a bad episode (it takes a lot for me to call an episode for anything that) and it has its good things, such as the supporting cast. It is also not particularly good, with a lot of issues to be had with the story, and is to me one of the season's lesser episodes, though still better than "Decaying Morality", "Parent's Nightmare" and "Intimidation Game".
The episode is elevated by the very strong supporting turns of Elizabeth Marvel, Chad Coleman and Maegan Good. Raul Esparza has lost none of his sparkle and delivers his lines with his usual zing, while Danny Pino has the right amount of steel. Kelli Giddish has her moments.
Furthermore, the photography and such are fully professional, the slickness still remaining. The music is used sparingly and is haunting and non-overwrought when it is used, and it's mainly used when a crucial revelation or plot development is revealed. There is intrigue once the case comes to trial and Barba's closing statement made me go wow.
However, the story is far too predictable, does nothing to set itself apart from the case it's ripped from and lacks suspense as a result. It needed much tighter pacing, especially in the latter stages where the plotting got thinner and then copped out with an ending that made me feel frustration towards the victim. Could totally see her point of view for most of the episode, but her decision considering how she was treated didn't ring true to me. Olivia to me was a lot less appealing once she was promoted and her sanctimoniousness and pushiness is taken to extremes here.
Rest of the regulars phone in, we need more from Mariska Hargitay than world weariness. Actually rate her acting in the previous seasons very highly and she still does have moments of excellence, but there have been too many instances of her character writing working against her. The bar scene is much too forced and does see Rollins out of character. The episode's writing can feel heavy handed, with the exception of the dialogue for Barba. Not an easy subject and it should have been handled with more nuance. Amaros personal life subplot and anger control had gotten stale last season, it now feels exhausted even with being on his side of the dilemma. Generally, the personal life drama takes over too much, Rollins' development is also starting to feel dragged out.
In summary, didn't do much for me. 5/10.
My feelings are still the same unfortunately, overall, positives and negatives. By all means, "Spousal Privilege" is not a bad episode (it takes a lot for me to call an episode for anything that) and it has its good things, such as the supporting cast. It is also not particularly good, with a lot of issues to be had with the story, and is to me one of the season's lesser episodes, though still better than "Decaying Morality", "Parent's Nightmare" and "Intimidation Game".
The episode is elevated by the very strong supporting turns of Elizabeth Marvel, Chad Coleman and Maegan Good. Raul Esparza has lost none of his sparkle and delivers his lines with his usual zing, while Danny Pino has the right amount of steel. Kelli Giddish has her moments.
Furthermore, the photography and such are fully professional, the slickness still remaining. The music is used sparingly and is haunting and non-overwrought when it is used, and it's mainly used when a crucial revelation or plot development is revealed. There is intrigue once the case comes to trial and Barba's closing statement made me go wow.
However, the story is far too predictable, does nothing to set itself apart from the case it's ripped from and lacks suspense as a result. It needed much tighter pacing, especially in the latter stages where the plotting got thinner and then copped out with an ending that made me feel frustration towards the victim. Could totally see her point of view for most of the episode, but her decision considering how she was treated didn't ring true to me. Olivia to me was a lot less appealing once she was promoted and her sanctimoniousness and pushiness is taken to extremes here.
Rest of the regulars phone in, we need more from Mariska Hargitay than world weariness. Actually rate her acting in the previous seasons very highly and she still does have moments of excellence, but there have been too many instances of her character writing working against her. The bar scene is much too forced and does see Rollins out of character. The episode's writing can feel heavy handed, with the exception of the dialogue for Barba. Not an easy subject and it should have been handled with more nuance. Amaros personal life subplot and anger control had gotten stale last season, it now feels exhausted even with being on his side of the dilemma. Generally, the personal life drama takes over too much, Rollins' development is also starting to feel dragged out.
In summary, didn't do much for me. 5/10.
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Aug 23, 2022
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