#svu brackets

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The Best She's Ever Looked bracket

✨ a liv benson style showdown

-> 16 eras, one winner

-> round one starts friday, september 26th

-> new polls every friday for 10 weeks.

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playoffs (round 2)

which episode is worse?

season 11 episode 1, unstable

season 20 episode 4, revenge

Voting ended onDec 15, 2023

episode descriptions under the cut

unstable -> svu gets the help of an angry, violent police officer to solve a rape case. they soon discover that they may be dealing with a serial rapist, and the wrong man may be in prison for one of his crimes (imdb). 2x oscar winner mahershala ali tries to light liv and elliot on fire. a man who is fixated on surveling a bodega clocks liv leaving a booty call 2 yrs prior #king. a lot of racism disguised as the 2009 version of being woke. wentworth miller extremely annoying. ms. christine lahti (sonya paxton) first episode <3

revenge -> as a string of break-in assaults grows more violent, the cops investigate an online incel group to identify a suspect (imdb). the gang learns about incels. rollins + carisi almost get lit on fire. and at the end of the day the perp simply had the wrong phone number all along….

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playoffs (round 3)

which episode is worse?

season 18 episode 17, real fake news

season 23 episode 6, the five hundredth episode

Voting ended onDec 22, 2023

episode descriptions under the cut

real fake news -> a congressman asks svu for help when he's accused of soliciting underage girls, but the investigation uncovers a sex trafficking ring (imdb). warren’s take on pizzagate and hrc’s emails. rollins and liv have to ship the babies off with queen lucy because a website implies they PURCHASED their children……. then they find a real child sex trafficking ring, a congressman is murdered, and Liv feels defeated about the state of misinformation online.

the 500th -> amaro and olivia's ex-boyfriend burton lowe ask svu for help with overturning a wrongful conviction in one of cragen's old cases (imdb). you know... you know... "are you saying that you're a victim now?"

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playoffs (round 1)

who was the better guest star?

maria bello as vivian arliss

meghann fahy as jenny aschler

Voting ended onMar 8, 2024

descriptions under the cut

maria bello -> appeared in season 12 episode 7, trophy, and season 12 episode 10, rescue. plays a gay, drug-addicted mother to the iconic, calvin. olivia thinks vivian is her sister for a minute, vivian leaves calvin in olivia's custody and then after her gf is killed, vivian gives legal guardianship of calvin to his grandparents. resulting in the truly gutting, "it was always temporary" line.

meghann fahy -> appeared in season 15 episode 19, downloaded child. plays a survivor of childhood sexual abuse but has a case of trauma-induced amnesia about what happened to her. olivia and amanda inform her of what happened to her + she responds (appropriately) by going off the rails. olivia tries to take her to therapy but she takes her clothes off in front of dr. lindstrom and she ends up in the psych ward. she works to recover and get her daughter back while doing victim impact statements and collecting restitution off of sick fucks for the rest of her life.

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playoffs (round 5)

which episode is worse?

season 18 episode 6, broken rhymes

season 20 episode 9, mea culpa

Voting ended onJan 5, 2024

episode descriptions under the cut

broken rhymes -> a rising hip-hop star is a suspect in a brutal transgender beating, but his alibi might be as shocking as the crime itself (imdb). warren tackles bathroom bills and transphobia in the entertainment industry. olivia threatens to lock up a transphobe for being annoying #slay. carisi raps. fin admits gender fluidity is hard to follow at times!

mea culpa -> stone asks benson to investigate a sexual assault from his past that he feels guilt and uncertainty about; rollins considers a proposal from al (imdb). a woman accuses stone of rape a decade after the fact. the squad #Grapples with the accusations against their buddy and if they should #believewomen or not. mariska directs. iconic rollisi moments for those who celebrate. bruno (kevin kane) plays the husband of the victim who holds stone at gunpoint. in the end stone didn’t do it but admits to lowkey thinking that he might have.