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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Intoxicated (2005)
If you are a teenager, watch this episode again wind your are an adult.
I was a teenager who grew up with alcoholic parents, and I was a teenage girl when this episode first came out. I used to want to escape my life, but as a child I had no way to do it. I completely saw Carrie's side of things. Looking back now as an adult woman, I completely changed my opinion about this episode. Something that Olivia herself revisits in Season 23, the 500th episode. Olivia first sided with Carrie, thinking she was abused by her alcoholic mother. She has a change of heart as an adult after she reconnects with the adult man she was with as a teenager. She realizes that she was groomed by this man, and she only told herself she was in love with him to escape her alcoholic mother. She realizes that underneath the rage, her Mother had a valid point. Something that I believe Denise Eldridge also knew. Something Olivia was only able to realize as a mother herself, looking back at her relationship with both this man's and her mother. Was Carrie's mother over the top? Yes. Was she wrong? I don't know, because we never see the character of Carrie or her 21 year old boyfriend ever again. But I doubt that they remained together. Women with issues with their fathers often seem to find themselves attracted to older men when they are young. Olivia and Carrie both didn't have a father. And both of their Mothers had been wronged by their fathers, as teenagers themselves. I bet than many women wish they could tell their 15 year old self what they know now, but it's not something that is possible. There may be some love stories where a teenage girl and her older lover remained together, but I bet that there are many more where the girl grew up and fell out of love with that man. There is a reason that statutory rape is a crime. My personal opinion is that I don't think that any man should have a relationship with a teenage girl. Period.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Five Hundredth Episode (2021)
I can't believe it's just been 500 episodes...
What a great episode! I loved seeing old characters cameos, but I especially liked the exploration of Olivia. If you liked this episode, you should definitely check out the movie The Tale (2018) with Laura Dern. Without spoiling it, the theme is along the same lines. Definitely worth a watch!
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Criminal Pathology (2015)
Not Norman Bates...but Robert Durst
Unlike the previous commenter, this case had more similarities with Robert Durst than Norman Bates. Look him up. You will see many similarities between the two episodes of this case.