'Law and Order: SVU' Season 17 Episode 7 Spoilers: Show Tackles Yet Another Familiar Real-Life Scandal
What makes NBC's longest-running police-procedural drama TV series "Law & Order: SVU" remarkable is its fearless initiative to feature stories that seem to be ripped from real-life headlines. In this week's installment, the highly-rated show is adapting yet another controversial case.
The episode, which is called "Patrimonial Burden," although similar to the situation faced by the Duggar family, will encounter an unexpected twist in the story. The Duggars were known as the stars of TLC's recently cancelled hit reality TV series "19 Kids and Counting."
The spoiler report from Design & Trend said Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and her team will handle a case concerning a 13-year-old girl who is found to be pregnant. What makes it more intriguing is the fact that the girl is one of the 10 children of a huge reality TV family and suspicion points out that the one responsible could be a member of the clan.
Additional details in the promo video, which was shared by the media outlet, further hinted that the family is also as religious as their real-life counterparts.
"You see it as a crime, we see it as a blessing," the woman, assumed to be the matriarch of the family, told the SVU team.
For those who missed it, the Duggar family got involved in a recent molestation scandal. Josh, the eldest of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19 children, claims to have "acted inexcusably" in fondling five girls, including some of his sisters, when he was still 14 to 15 years old.
Peter Scanvino, Detective Carisi in the show, shared his sentiment in doing the episode.
"I wouldn't mind doing one just because I have never been so infuriated with someone's level of hypocrisy, and lying, and then displacement of responsibility onto something else," he said. "When I think about that guy, it boils my blood, I will say."
Find out how these events unfold when "Law & Order: SVU" Season 17 Episode 7 airs this Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 9 p.m. on NBC.
