Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) I'm Going To Make You a Star (2019) User Reviews

Same Story, New Changes

[jyanes · 9/10 · 24 November 2019]

Same story told countless times before on SVU, but I guess Warren Leight wanted to cover it first due to his absence as showrunner on SVU during the #MeToo movement. What really made this episode was the character development for everyone on the show to help push SVU into the next decade! The introduction of Kat Tamin was great!

Surpasses "Gunsmoke"

[baranjmichael · 8/10 · 15 January 2024]

A bit of Trivia. As the episode begins, the camera focuses on a fake version of MeTV and an episode of "Gunsmoke". Looking at the scene...and doing some research, I found that it was a copy of the very first TV edition of "Gunsmoke"...the premier episode on. September 10, 1955...."Matt Gets It".

The purpose was to show the audience that with this episode of L/O:SVU, it surpassed "Gunsmoke" by running for 21 years at that point.... Gunsmoke ran for 20..A bit of Trivia. As the episode begins, the camera focuses on a fake version of MeTV and an episode of "Gunsmoke". Looking at the scene...and doing some research, I found that it was a copy of the very first TV edition of "Gunsmoke"...the premier episode on. September 10, 1955...."Matt Gets It".

The purpose was to show the audience that with this episode of L/O:SVU, it surpassed "Gunsmoke" by running for 21 years at that point.... Gunsmoke ran for 20..

Life Repeats

[bud_03086 · 10/10 · 1 May 2020]

I have watched this show off and on for years. It has been mentioned that this story has been told over and over. Life repeats itself. What is important is that the acting is superb. Although the plot is well-known, the screenplay and it's delivery is unique and worth a 10 rating.

Great Way To Start A Season Will Miss Sonny Tho But Can't Wait To See The New Detective

[queen_key · 10/10 · 23 April 2021]

It was a great episode I love it tbh & idk why people hating on it,like I think maybe I don't have taste or the other fans don't but everytime I love a episode people are just disgusted by it in the reviews.

Now THIS is how you start off a new season!

[Top_Dawg_Critic · 10/10 · 27 September 2019]

Wow, excellent start to season 21! Now THIS is how you start off a new season. Great to see Ian McShane (aka Winston from John Wick) guest star - played his role exceptionally. The writers now have a challenge to one-up this series premier. 10/10 from me

Wow

[cngrant-75951 · 10/10 · 28 September 2019]

The scene where all of his victims held signs saying #MeToo...this is why SVU keeps going. This show gives you hope for humanity. Women will not stop fighting for justice. Amazing episode to kick off the season.

Episode 2101

[bobcobb301 · 6/10 · 2 October 2019]

Incredible that SVU has now made history as the longest running drama series passing Gunsmoke, but I wish they ushered in that era with a bigger episode.

This was too repetitive and felt like three years too late.

Ian McShane is a good actor, but this was not the right role for him.

Been there, done that over and over and over

[sherry_jo_80 · 2/10 · 28 September 2019]

As a big fan of SVU, it pains me to say this but the show has run its course and must end. My only reaction sitting through this episode was one big meh.

same old same old

[abbyirsan · 5/10 · 27 September 2019]

The show is really running out of ideas... the same story was covered in previous episodes with the same undercover plot and the only time you have someone with a middle eastern family name you had to make her corrupted?

AWFUL!!!

[Just-A-Girl-14 · 1/10 · 8 July 2020]

Everything about this episode was so fake! The storyline and even the acting were so unconvincing. It wasn't about the victims or even the police work, it was all about the me too movement. It's not the first time (and unfortunately not the last time) SVU is shoving politics down our throats (we get it, Dick Wolf, you have a political agenda), but at least previously it was done so much better. I don't understand what I just watched. Where were the feelings? Where was the police work? They were so helpless that they had to bring someone from vice to pretend to be an actress and yet by the end of the episode we saw all those women standing outside the courtroom holding signs. Are we supposed to believe this guy was sexually assaulting women since the nineties and the detectives could even find one woman who would agree to testify? Yet they had no problem holding signs that they were sexually assaulted? I can't believe I'm saying this but it felt so cheap! Sexual assault is not just about sticking it to the rich/famous/powerful guy. It's so much more than that. SVU used to get that. Here, it was just about sending a message and nothing more. They are really losing their touch. I was a fan since the beginning and I keep on watching because I still hope they can go back to do the important work they used to do. It's not about politics or a movement, it's about the hardships surrounding sexual assault. From the victims feelings to the investigation to the courtroom. It a difficult process and not a 45 minutes propaganda.

SVU Continues Its Downward Slide

[bkkaz · 3/10 · 7 August 2020]

Law and Order: SVU held a certain standard of excellence for about a dozen years -- it was never the strongest entry in the franchise, but the stories kept some pretense of being a procedural, even as they veered into melodrama. But in more recent years, after going through various writers and producers and losing so many of the series regulars, it's a shell of its former self. Now, the episodes don't even try to use a real event as a starting point -- they just reproduce it without the twists and turns that the older episodes had. This one brings in a Harvey Weinstein character who is as multi-dimensional as a paper plate. Ian McShane plays him with snarling, bug-eyed villainy, and he'd be twirling his mustache if he had one. Perhaps in an effort to boost Mariska Hargitay's often pedestrian acting skills, the show continues the new tradition of hiring lesser quality actors, which now include a D.A. who manages to be both over-the-top and boring at the same time and a new detective, who bobs and sways a lot when she talks, like she's trying out for the Beastie Boys. You might notice I'm not talking much about the episode. That's because there's not much to talk about. McShane plays a Hollywood powerbroker who is the latest target of SVU's interests. In the old days, the show might have tried for some subtlety, some mystery as to whether or not he did it and, perhaps, was being set up. Nope, not anymore. McShane is as guilty as they come, and what passes for dialogue now on the show -- statements of the obvious, like "He's going to get away with it!" and little speeches before someone storms off in a huff, don't make things any better. The second part of this episode, if it could be called that, hardly deals with it, and you'll get the impression a 19-year-old who grew up on soaps and Lifetime movies is writing the show now.