Benson helps a teenaged foreign exchange student after she's assaulted by a cab driver.Benson helps a teenaged foreign exchange student after she's assaulted by a cab driver.Benson helps a teenaged foreign exchange student after she's assaulted by a cab driver.
- Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
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- ADA Peter Stone
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Did you know
- TriviaMariska Hargitay speaks fluent Italian as well as 3 other languages.
- GoofsThe Sister has on hoop earrings that goes missing between takes and then reappear in her conversation with Detective Rollins.
- Quotes
Dominick Carisi Jr.: Ischia is one of the most beautiful islands in the world.
Amanda Rollins: I had never heard of it before this morning.
Dominick Carisi Jr.: My aunt from my, uh, mom's side, she was born there. I mean, she hasn't been back in sixty years, but she cannot stop talking about it.
Amanda Rollins: Tell me about her cannolis.
Dominick Carisi Jr.: No, no, no, it's a marinara sauce. She gets the tomatoes flown in from Naples.
Amanda Rollins: Of course she does.
Dominick Carisi Jr.: It is unbelievable. Listen, let me talk to these girls. I want to brush up on my Italian.
Amanda Rollins: Well, you can brush up on your English while you're at it. Both the girls went to an American school over there. They sound like they grew up in Westport.
Dominick Carisi Jr.: You're kidding me.
Amanda Rollins: No, I'm telling you, I have more of an accent than they do.
- SoundtracksOut Of My League
Performed by Fitz and The Tantrums
Played during the opening scene, when they play strip poker
On the most part, "Exchange" was the former, so gutsy, intense and poignant. It is a long way from being a perfect episode and a falls a little short of being great, but it also has a lot of truly fine things that already makes it a better episode than most of the previous ones of Season 20's patchy second half and in fact most of the season's second half. It was a tactful handling of an uneasy subject, while also still holding no punches. With a subject like this, that is not always easy.
A lot is good about "Exchange". The photography while very close up doesn't come over as too static or filmed play-like, while the production values are typically solid and have subtle atmosphere while not being drab and keeping things simple. When the music is used it is haunting and has a melancholic edge that is not overdone. The episode is sympathetically yet uncompromisingly directed.
The script flows well and doesn't in any way trivialise the subject, while also not going too far. The story on the whole is very absorbing, that has enough unexpected twists and turns that have an early seasons 'Special Victims Unit' feel. The regulars are all very good, as are the supporting cast, the sympathetic victim and truly despicable perpetrator standing out.
"Exchange" could have been better though. It takes a little bit of time to get going and the perpetrator is somewhat obvious, with too much one dimensional character writing.
Did feel too that Olivia is not very professional here, primarily when discussing what happened with the victim at her home. Which is well out of her boundaries in the context of her job and comes over as too invasive.
Good episode though overall. 7/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Aug 1, 2023
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- 2 Tudor City Pl, New York, NY 10017, USA(Detectives interview other exchange student / scenes with UN in background)
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