It figures, darlings!!!!!!!!!! Just as 'SVU' is wrapping up its season, they start doing something right. Last week's episode, "What Happens In The Dark," dealt with something rarely depicted--spousal abuse by a female toward a male. Anna Wood simply snarled and sneered her way through the role of Diana Richards--but then the role hardly required much more. Unlike the gold standard set by Isabella Hoffman, as Charlotte Bayes, in 2003's "Churchgoing People," on "Cold Case." Can you believe that was 18 years ago????????????????
Anyway, when Andy Richards, the spouse, gets into it with a coworker at his construction site, I thought they were going for male rape, where Andy would eventually be found having been sodomized by his male coworker. I had the concept right, but the perpetrator wrong. Andy's wife, Diana, played by Anna Wood, is so stressed out by running an art gallery, that she abuses her big, strapping husband, played by Michael Gladis, in a shattering performance. He could easily take her out with one punch, but, like most abused spouses, is so afraid--of further injury, of having his son Charlie taken away, let alone her focusing the abuse on him, because these types don't stop with one person.
The ending enraged me. Diana goes on trial, is found guilty, has to register as a sex offender --she sodomized her husband with a dildo, to the point where he bled internally, tearing his perineum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, can you believe that??????????????
Also, she did not get hardly a strong enough sentence as a male abuser. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. And that bullshit about how they will work things out, and she will be able to see her son, Charlie. To hell with that! Get the child away from her, fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Michael Gladis was the showcase performer in this episode. His performance as Andy Richards will stay in 'SVU' memory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe there IS hope for series improvement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 comment:
Victoria,
I am ready! I will even pull
her hair out! That should teach her!
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