When we think about what SVU is "about," things like advocating for victims of sexual abuse or normalizing coming forward about abuse or copaganda generally come to mind. This episode, however, is about something entirely different. It postulates that the entire state of New Jersey is irredeemably corrupt and downright evil. From the seagulling scumbags of the cold open to the heights of political and judicial power, the Garden State would appear to have no good side. Did onerous bridge tolls, overpriced beach towns, and the inability to pump ones own gas so poison the Season 15 Writers Room as to turn them this decisively against Jersey?


Sources:


Luzerne "Kids For Cash' Scandal - Juvenile Law Center


Tennessee Judge Who Illegally Jailed Children Plans to Retire - ProPublica


Music:


Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"


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