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11-09-2018, 09:06 PM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2018/11/09/law-order-svu-rapist-judge-kavanaughed-high-school-allegation
By Lindsay Kornick | November 9, 2018 1:55 AM EST
NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is back with another whopper of an episode. After covering illegal immigration and school shootings, the fictional cop show kicks the bias up a notch by addressing the Justice Kavanaugh allegations. What could possibly go right with this?
The November 8 episode “Hell’s Kitchen” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/75685-s20e08-hells-kitchen/?do=getLastComment) starts out with the investigation of the rape of a waitress by a notable chef. The waitress, Kayla (Genevieve Angelson), initially doesn’t want to press charges against her boss, Andrew Liebowitz (Luke Kirby), but the Special Victims Unit takes charge and convinces her to testify against her rapist. The story immediately resembles the case against Mario Batali, also a notable chef under fire for sexual assault allegations. Considering Law & Order boasts “ripped from the headlines” plots, that’s not a surprise. However, things aren’t always that simple for this series.
While a chef secretly raping his employees is abhorrent on its own, the unit discovers that several other allegations against him were dropped by Brooklyn ADA Chris Hodges (Jacob Pitts). Since Hodges is a prominent lawyer in the #MeToo movement, Olivia (Mariska Hargitay) finds it hard to believe he’d turn down a high-profile case like that. Sure enough, the investigation finds that Hodges and Liebowitz attended high school together. Even worse, when the case leaks, a woman soon comes forward with a high school allegation against Hodges. Suddenly, this story sounds remarkably similar to another case.
By Lindsay Kornick | November 9, 2018 1:55 AM EST
NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is back with another whopper of an episode. After covering illegal immigration and school shootings, the fictional cop show kicks the bias up a notch by addressing the Justice Kavanaugh allegations. What could possibly go right with this?
The November 8 episode “Hell’s Kitchen” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/75685-s20e08-hells-kitchen/?do=getLastComment) starts out with the investigation of the rape of a waitress by a notable chef. The waitress, Kayla (Genevieve Angelson), initially doesn’t want to press charges against her boss, Andrew Liebowitz (Luke Kirby), but the Special Victims Unit takes charge and convinces her to testify against her rapist. The story immediately resembles the case against Mario Batali, also a notable chef under fire for sexual assault allegations. Considering Law & Order boasts “ripped from the headlines” plots, that’s not a surprise. However, things aren’t always that simple for this series.
While a chef secretly raping his employees is abhorrent on its own, the unit discovers that several other allegations against him were dropped by Brooklyn ADA Chris Hodges (Jacob Pitts). Since Hodges is a prominent lawyer in the #MeToo movement, Olivia (Mariska Hargitay) finds it hard to believe he’d turn down a high-profile case like that. Sure enough, the investigation finds that Hodges and Liebowitz attended high school together. Even worse, when the case leaks, a woman soon comes forward with a high school allegation against Hodges. Suddenly, this story sounds remarkably similar to another case.