Law and Order SVU S17E10 Review

This episode was released on Wednesday, January 6, so this is late, but better late than never. Catfishing Teacher was a good episode, although it had it's flaws. It gets four out of five stars from me, mainly because while it does have a good plot line, I hated the non-suspense and the character choice. A quick background of this episode, a teacher has sex with her students while promising them higher grades, and sexts with them as well. Zach(an "uncool" student") receives an explicit text message from her(supposedly), he crafts a plan to tell his mother that he's spending Christmas break with his father. SVU gets the case when his mother loses contact with her. The teacher, Phoebe Burnap, is arrested, but is not the guilty one. It turns out that the boys wrestling coach has Zach, and they turn to another, older victim to find where Zach was taken. They find him, arrest the wresting coach only to find out that Zach won't testify. Dead end reached, they try to convince Nat(a former wrestler) to testify. It wasn't clear whether or not he agreed to, but later, he brought in a video that showed him torturing the coach(Basinski) into confessing. He dies en route to the hospital. This episode had a good plot, and kept you trying to solve the case, but there was no suspense once Phoebe said the words "wrestling coach." Also, ADA Barba was not shown at all in this episode, and apparently, Carisi is shadowing him because he studied the law. ADA Kenneth O'Dwyer wasn't bad, but he was just more or less clueless on how to work with victims and how to have compassion. In the end, he acted mainly just like an ADA who only wanted publicity and to win a case, no matter the cost.

Tell me in the comments below what you thought of this episode. Did you think there was actual suspense, did the outcome surprise you at all and so on. Let me know!