So another "kidnapped one kid to replace another" where they muck it all up by taking FOREVER to get to the point. (They did this in one with Stabler where they faked a kidnap of a teenage girl and her online streamed assaults to get attention for a cold kidnapping case, in that one they decided to play fantastical magic with the characters ages) this one they make it an absolutely absurd play with a six year old not remembering his kidnapping.... but... they start the episode with a little girl being kidnapped and she's fully functional and her brain works just fine but we're supposed to believe this kid remembers NOTHING of his former life... but also Rollins "discovery" of the kids eye color.... both of my parents had brown eyes. My brother has blue eyes and I have green. We each turned up the recessive gene from either side. There is zero way this would have clued them into it being the same kid. But It's one of those plotlines they try to make so left turn it collapses in on itself. Infuriating. SVU has always been this way though. It can go from (in one season) a pinnacle of television production in every way (in season 20 I consider Alta Kockers one of the best episodes of the entire series) to this mess of Missing. But then immediately after this episode SVU started reaching out into a lala land from which it could never come back. But you could watch its fingers slip off the cliff in this one.
Review of Missing
