Thoughts on "Law and Order: SVU" (spoilers for 9/22 episodes)
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I admit I'm drawing the following conclusions based on relatively little data, but here goes... Is it just me, or do episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit throw everything but the kitchen sink into their plots? In the episode "Witness," which ran in mid-March and I watched while working out late at the gym, a woman with a not-so-great reputation is raped by some lowlife who claims she'd led him on and the only witness is a woman who it turns out is an illegal immigrant from the Congo. She had been raped repeatedly, in really bizarre ways that I'm not going to describe here but actually do happen in real life. The Immigration and Naturalization Service tries to deport her in the middle of the trial, claiming she's married to one of the perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide. It turns out she had been forced into this marriage after being carried off to a camp where coltan, a mineral used in the developed world's cell phones, is mined by slaves controlled by militias.
Thoughts on "Law and Order: SVU" (spoilers for 9/22 episodes)
Thoughts on "Law and Order: SVU" (spoilers…
Thoughts on "Law and Order: SVU" (spoilers for 9/22 episodes)
I admit I'm drawing the following conclusions based on relatively little data, but here goes... Is it just me, or do episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit throw everything but the kitchen sink into their plots? In the episode "Witness," which ran in mid-March and I watched while working out late at the gym, a woman with a not-so-great reputation is raped by some lowlife who claims she'd led him on and the only witness is a woman who it turns out is an illegal immigrant from the Congo. She had been raped repeatedly, in really bizarre ways that I'm not going to describe here but actually do happen in real life. The Immigration and Naturalization Service tries to deport her in the middle of the trial, claiming she's married to one of the perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide. It turns out she had been forced into this marriage after being carried off to a camp where coltan, a mineral used in the developed world's cell phones, is mined by slaves controlled by militias.