"The Book Of Esther" Was Way Better Than "The Book Of Mormon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                            Last night's 'SVU' episode, "The Book Of Esther," featured two showcase performances--first from Kelli Giddish as Amanda Rollins, whose turn it was to shine, and by an actress named Rebekah Kennedy, who is actually in her early Thirties, but here looked like Shelley Plimpton might have after one too many back to back performances of "HAIR."

                             This was the show's take on the Turpin family, that lovely California clan, with 19 children, whom they abused; some well into adulthood.  Kudos to Ray McKinnon for his chilling performance as William Labott, a guy who, at one time in the mainstream, had been fortunate enough to make money off a chemical patent, so could afford to live off the grid, even if he was forcing his family to live like White Trash!!!!!!!!!  All his monologues about the decline of society and what technology has done are fine up to a point, but what he does not see is it is what people do and have done with the technology, not its existence, that has ruined society. People and their attitudes will do it, every time.

                           So, Esther is found hiding in a bathroom on the LIRR. Interesting she is so traumatized, yet she knows how and where to hop a train to, when time to escape. Which she does, by breaking through some sort of dog door, where she was being imprisoned, and most likely abused.

                          All I can say is,  thank God for Stephanie March's appearance on the previous episode, because I think some of her passionate acting was transferred over to Kelli.  If only Stephanie would come back full time, or had been on this show, because I know she and Amanda would have lit into this case like nobody's business.

                          I have to admit I had problems with Amanda's breaking and entering the house.  But, everything else, I was with her all the way.  And feeding Esther food as inhumane?  No, darlings; this girl was traumatized beyond reason, malnourished to the point where she looked like a pubescent teenage girl, instead of the adult 27-year-old woman she actually was.  The importance, as Amanda saw it, was to establish trust, and if it takes M and M's to do that, I say go ahead.  It wasn't like Esther could be reached on an intellectual level, since all she could spout was the Biblical, hypocritical rhetoric she had been controlled by, all her life.  And Brandy Zaire, as matriarch Debbie Labott I both loathed and pitied; allowing herself and her children to live like trash, but feeling trapped and imprisoned by a cultish madman.

                          It makes me sick how many of these people are out there; I was not surprised the family had lived in New Jersey and Long Island, as those places are breeding grounds for such hypocrisy.  Those, and Staten  Island!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          I was with Amanda all the way, and I was thrilled Kelli Rollins,  in the church, got the last shot.  I wish the chair she had thrown that chair in interrogation and had hit Lamott.  I get her anger, because this episode filled me with it, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                           Way to go, Kelli!  Let's make this a show about everyone, and not JUST Olivia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!