Her Negotiation

Patricia Arquette is guest star this episode
This show often hires absolutely wonderful talent to guest star and this episode showcased this aspect by hiring Patricia Arquette. We open with her looking like a middle aged woman going to daily mass and she looks well into her forties. Shortly thereafter she transforms herself into a street prostitute and you would never know it is the same person. Her importance to the episode is that she is the person a killer on the rampage in the city keeps calling and trying to meet. SVU needs to keep on her night and day to find this killer. Arquette essentially blows every other actor off the screen with this role.

For those not familiar with Arquette, she was a leading film actress before turning to tv. She worked with most of the top directors and male stars. She branched off into tv as she aged. She starred in her own show MEDIUM for many seasons. She comes from a family of actors, including Roseanna Arquette and David Arquette.

A year or so ago this show hired...

Raul Esparza makes this season great.
Any of the 6 episodes Raul Esparza has been in this season so far are great. His expressions, props, costumes, as well as dialogue make you concentrate on him whenever he is on screen.

An intriguing, addicting, and timeless classic.
L&O SVU has been one of my favorites since 2005. I'd watch it every now and then on late-night TV, then was very excited to find it more recently on Amazon Prime with every episode at my disposal. The way the show is written keeps you interested for the full hour and unable to wait for the next episode. I have heard a lot of people talk about how the smart police work in L&O Criminal Intent is far superior to SVU. In my opinion, the chance of dealing with a live victim, and watching them and their families deal with the crisis forms the perfect B plot while watching a team of smart, quick, and on occasion funny detectives solve the case. Also comparing to the original Law and Order and Criminal Intent, you get to see events take a turn away from the conventional "someone in New York City is a murderer and we'll comb the city until we find him/her" style. Most of the time, the murderer in these shows has some kind of notorious reason behind it. In SVU, the culprits sometimes believe...

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