Post-Graduate Psychopath

This episode, and the episodes after, feel radically different from the rest of this season and possibly the season before it. This episode feels like classic SVU writing. It has a classic SVU plot. The previous episodes and season(s) had too much of a political feel to them, but not too much to put me off SVU completely. This episode came at just the right time because I was nearing my peak with the political tension plots, although they weren't done too badly, they were overdone at this point. And this episode is a true turning point. It feels like seeing an old friend and everything suddenly feeling like "the good old days", and then realizing you've been missing them way more than you thought. I've watched the last two episodes of season 22 and the first few episodes of season 23 and the political undertones are much lighter now. This is a welcomed change. Politics are a part of society (and institutions e.g. The NYPD) and politics were (and still are) at the forefront of American social discourse but it really started to feel overdone and repetitive.