Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27 Episode 7 Review: False Idols
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27 Episode 7, “False Idols,” marks the return of Fin to the squad room. However, it might not be for long.
Even though the rest of the team is glad to see him back, Benson knows deep down in her bones that Fin isn’t ready. She asks him and keeps an eye on him because she can predict what will happen next.
As viewers, we can appreciate the small details that tell us he’s not ready. Fin jumps when the security at the hospital comes at them too fast, and his face as they escort the writer out of her event with bright lights and people screaming.
The sad part is that the show isn’t exploring this as it should. We haven’t seen a single moment of his recovery or the way he’s been struggling with what happened to him.
Instead, he tells Benson he might not be ready and needs more time. Hopefully, they will give his recovery the screen time it deserves.
Even though Fin’s return is short-lived, it is great to see him and Rollins working together. There is an understanding and a synchronization in that partnership that we rarely see in the squad room these days.
They belong together as partners, as he was one of the first people to make sure she felt comfortable with the team. It would have been interesting to see her pick up on his struggles and try to talk to him about them.
Maybe it will be discussed later on.
But as exciting as the return of that partnership is, it’s disappointing that we don’t get to see the entire team together. For Fin to come back, the show had to sacrifice Curry’s screen time.
Once again, it seems Law & Order: Special Victims Unit can’t find a way to make sure the entire team works on the case together. It is even more disappointing to see that the two people of color on the show have to take turns appearing on screen.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27 Episode 7, “False Idols,” isn’t the first time we’ve seen a storyline in which a couple plans assaults together or makes arrangements of the sort. However, it doesn’t feel like a repeated plot.
On the contrary, the addition of Rollins’s fanaticism and her knowledge of the author and her fans helps get a better understanding of what’s going on.
The show thrives when the team gets more personally involved in the cases. They work more passionately when they feel connected to what’s happening.
While for Benson that comes more naturally, the rest of the team needs that extra personal component to act the same way. Nevertheless, Rollins’s commentary and expertise help prove why Benson wanted her back and why she deserves to be back.
Now all we need is for the show to find its balance between the team’s personal stories, the cases, and the amount of time they spend on our screens.
However, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27 has proven, so far, to be better than its predecessor. So it deserves the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the little things that could have been better this episode.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit airs Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC.
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Lara Rosales
By day, Lara Rosales (she/her) is a solo mom by choice and a bilingual writer with a BA in Latin-American Literature known as a Media Relations Expert. By night, she is a TV enjoyer who used to host a podcast (Cats, Milfs & Lesbian Things). You can find her work published on Eulalie Magazine, Geek Girl Authority, W Spotlight, Collider, USA Wire, Mentors Collective, Instelite, Noodle, Dear Movies, Nicki Swift, and Flip Screened.