The attempted suicide of a 15-year-old girl leads to her family, promiscuity, and her regression to a child.The attempted suicide of a 15-year-old girl leads to her family, promiscuity, and her regression to a child.The attempted suicide of a 15-year-old girl leads to her family, promiscuity, and her regression to a child.
BD Wong
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- TriviaTitus Welliver appears in this episode and then would later go on to guest as Rob Miller in season 20's Blackout (2019), Assumptions (2019) and End Game (2019).
- GoofsThe subway station in the opening scene is meant to be West 4th Street (according to the large sign). A passenger also identifies an approaching train as the C, which does stop at West 4th. However, the train is actually the N (according to its logo), and the real subway station is Church Street according to the tiling on the walls.
- Quotes
Elliot Stabler: Either you let them rape your daughter or your husband took their semen out of you and did it himself.
Angie Landricks: That's disgusting.
Elliot Stabler: [screams] You're disgusting! You are! Your own child!
Featured review
Resilience at its most dysfunctional
On my first viewing of "Resilience", it struck me as another very good episode of 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit's' Season 4 and of the show. If not one of my favourites, then again there are many fine episodes in this season. On first watch (which was about five or six years ago now), it was cleverly plotted and emotional as well as creeped me out and with elements of strangeness. Even though part of me didn't understand everything that went on later on.
Five or so re-watches later (have seen a vast majority of 'Special Victims Unit's' episodes at least twice, apart from the ones that didn't quite do it for me), my assessment of "Resilience" is almost exactly the same though fares even better on re-watch. What stuck out at me as particularly good on first viewing still sticks out now in the same way and overall it is a very good and nearly great episode, if again not quite one of my favourites of Season 4. It's not quite "Chameleon" or "Dolls" level.
"Resilience" for my liking does get a bit muddled in the latter portions. Perhaps because of trying to cram in too many revelations in, there are quite a lot that come at a fairly dizzying rate, and not having enough time to properly explore them. For instance there wasn't much of a reason provided for the need for more kids or for why the victim was being followed on the subway.
A shame because up to then "Resilience" was absolutely great. It's well made, intimately photographed and slick with no signs of under-budget or anything. The music didn't sound melodramatic or too constant and the direction is accomodating while still having pulse. The writing doesn't ramble, although as usual there is a lot of dialogue to digest, and really provokes thought, disturbs and brings a lump to the throat.
The story for most of the episode is hugely intriguing, it was strange at times but it was also disturbing with one of the most chillingly dysfunctional families in 'Special Victims Unit' history (the truly warped father especially). As well as emotional in the chemistry between Stabler and Jackie, where Stabler's paternal side comes out and it is great to see a sympathetic side to him balanced with the tough cop side when with suspects. Munch and Fin are a great duo and have some great lines in their interplay with Randall.
Love the team and how they work, not letting the case get too over-personal and they work cohesively. The regulars are all on fine form, especially Christopher Meloni who is both intense and sympathetic. Rachael Bella is affecting as Jackie and Titus Welliver's Landricks chills.
Summing up, very good and actually great until it got a little muddled. 8/10
Five or so re-watches later (have seen a vast majority of 'Special Victims Unit's' episodes at least twice, apart from the ones that didn't quite do it for me), my assessment of "Resilience" is almost exactly the same though fares even better on re-watch. What stuck out at me as particularly good on first viewing still sticks out now in the same way and overall it is a very good and nearly great episode, if again not quite one of my favourites of Season 4. It's not quite "Chameleon" or "Dolls" level.
"Resilience" for my liking does get a bit muddled in the latter portions. Perhaps because of trying to cram in too many revelations in, there are quite a lot that come at a fairly dizzying rate, and not having enough time to properly explore them. For instance there wasn't much of a reason provided for the need for more kids or for why the victim was being followed on the subway.
A shame because up to then "Resilience" was absolutely great. It's well made, intimately photographed and slick with no signs of under-budget or anything. The music didn't sound melodramatic or too constant and the direction is accomodating while still having pulse. The writing doesn't ramble, although as usual there is a lot of dialogue to digest, and really provokes thought, disturbs and brings a lump to the throat.
The story for most of the episode is hugely intriguing, it was strange at times but it was also disturbing with one of the most chillingly dysfunctional families in 'Special Victims Unit' history (the truly warped father especially). As well as emotional in the chemistry between Stabler and Jackie, where Stabler's paternal side comes out and it is great to see a sympathetic side to him balanced with the tough cop side when with suspects. Munch and Fin are a great duo and have some great lines in their interplay with Randall.
Love the team and how they work, not letting the case get too over-personal and they work cohesively. The regulars are all on fine form, especially Christopher Meloni who is both intense and sympathetic. Rachael Bella is affecting as Jackie and Titus Welliver's Landricks chills.
Summing up, very good and actually great until it got a little muddled. 8/10
- TheLittleSongbird
- Sep 29, 2020
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