Someone Should Give That Diana Richards A Smack Across The Face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!