After the let down, last week, of "Caretaker," the show's take on killer nanny Yoselyn Ortega, neither Baby Gojira or I were especially excited about "Hell's Kitchen," which was to be, I thought the show's take, on the whole Mario Batali scandal.
It was, but I had to laugh. Batali became Andrew Liebowitz, well played by Luke Kirby, who runs a restaurant called "Far Rockaway," in Far Rockaway. This cracked me up, because the place is a high end seafood restaurant, and Far Rockaway is Jill Eisenstadt country, and, if you go back and read the posts I wrote on Jill's books, what is made clear right away is that Far Rockaway is strictly Nowheresville!!!!!!!!!! A high end restaurant in a destination no one would think of going to is not sound business sense. Even I, with no business cred, knows that.
Things are as predictable as might be expected, except for a nasty client who asks a waitress to sit on his face! Even in the 10PM slot, I never knew 'SVU' to get this sleazy. Just when a lecture is badly needed from Olivia, she is nowhere to be seen.
What gets this story going is Jacob Pitts, and his performance as high minded ADA Chris Hodges. When it is discovered he and Liebowitz were high school buds, and used to troll around, and that he has covered up other accusations of Liebowitz, even though he is, supposedly a #MeToo advocate, the story moves from Batali to Brett Kavanugh, which is much more interesting, to begin with. As bad as Liebowitz is, Chris is worse, because, like Kavanugh, he is the biggest hypocrite there is. But, then, aren't most high powered hetero men???????? They don't respect women, they don't respect themselves, just Corporation America. They bow to the almighty Trump statue!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These two get what they deserve, but good! School is out for these boys, in what turned out to be a better episode than I had expected. Even Baby Gojira was happy.
But the ending was chillingly prophetic. As Chris is being hauled off to the slammer, he says to Peter Stone, "One day, they will come for you!"
And it turns out, next week, Stone is facing rape allegations from his past. With his already displayed hot body, penchant for alcohol and hedonistic sex, Stone is not the strait lacer his father, Ben (played by Michael Moriarty) was. And what is all this about having been some minor league baseball player, in the past????????? So, I am anticipating an exciting episode next week.
Of course, it all depends on how low key the writers keep Olivia. Like they did here!
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