Dun, Dun! We've Ranked 2020's Best 'SVU' Episodes

May 2024 · 4 minute read

We've ranked the five best episodes from our favourite crime procedural, 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.' Here are their stories. Dun dun!

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There’s a reason Law & Order: SVU is television’s longest operating primetime drama display in history. Despite the darkish material, the show manages to be addictive thanks to its plot twists, sturdy ensemble cast, and one of the best visitor superstar appearances any show has observed.

Over its 21-year historical past and just about 500-episode run, some SVU episodes have stood out greater than others, but opting for the best ones is usually a tough name. So in honor of the show’s incredible, history-making run, here’s a roundup of the show’s best episodes that aired in 2020.

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1. "She Paints for Vengeance" (Season 21, Episode 11)

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After Monica Russo, an artist and stripper, is raped via famous athlete Markeevious Ryan at the strip membership where she works, she looks like she’s being brushed aside via a detective who doesn’t deem her case necessary enough on account of her career. 

Monica makes a decision to make use of her artistic background to name out the NYPD’s lackluster investigation, which after all will get them to do their activity and find more women with a identical tale.

This episode was special for fanatics because it used to be one in every of a handful of episodes directed by loved actor Mariska Hargitay. Viewers had been additionally excited for Carisi’s first court case and win as the show's new ADA.

2. "Garland's Baptism by Fire" (Season 21, Episode 18)

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A member of Deputy Bureau Chief Garland’s church gets arrested for embezzlement but in exchange for a lighter sentence, the person points hands on the church’s reverend, accusing him of being responsible for the embezzling, in addition to the statutory rape of several teenage ladies. As the investigation progresses, Benson and Garland need to cope with their personal emotions, the evidence at hand, and the reverend’s spouse who stands by way of her husband and takes her anger out on the squad.

This episode showcased the new Bureau Chief as a dynamic personality and confirmed him to be an excellent captain, seeking to stability his process, and his accountability to his own group, all the while serving to Benson secure a conviction.

3. "The Things We Have to Lose" (Season 21, Episode 20)

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The season finale appeared back at numerous different instances that came about over Season 21 including Sir Tobias Moore, a Weinstein-type personality who was arrested back in Episode 1. 

In the finale, Sir Tobias was in spite of everything brought to trial and in an emotional scene, all of the sufferers acquire outdoor the court to clap for Olivia and thank her for her exhausting work in bringing this tough guy and serial rapist to justice.

4. "Remember Me in Quarantine" (Season 22, Episode 3)

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When an Italian scholar is going missing, Olivia gets a call from a friend within the Carabinieri asking her for lend a hand. The detectives soon uncover that the lady is lifeless and turn out to be suspicious of her party-loving roommate and drug broker good friend who happened to have a threesome with the girl simply sooner than her death. 

But in a predictable SVU twist, it seems the girl’s killer was actually her third roommate who had been in love with her and resented her irresponsible movements all through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Although we don’t love reliving this 12 months’s real-life traumas through our tv presentations, it used to be fun to look at all of the SVU squad begin to lose patience with the lockdown and people who flout the rules of the COVID-19 quarantine.

5. "Guardians and Gladiators" (Season 22, Episode 1)

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The first episode again after a tumultuous summer time in real lifestyles touched on nearly the entire hot-button problems that came about within the months that the display used to be off the air. SVU is called to investigate a criminal offense in Central Park however whilst they’re there, they come upon local policemen looking to arrest a Black guy who a white woman has accused of “scaring her.” 

After the person is proven to be blameless on the other hand, he sues the department for his wrongful arrest. This results in Olivia being investigated by way of inner affairs where she’s compelled to confront her personal unconscious racial biases.

Again, it feels too soon to be re-living the occasions of the summer on television, which is why this episode ranks final on our listing. But regardless of the uncomfortable recollections, "Guardians and Gladiators" put the problematic movements of police in all places the country on blast and proved that even the most true-blue detectives like Olivia Benson make dangerous decisions, whether they mean to or now not.

New episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit air at nine p.m. ET on NBC. 

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