Sometimes 'Law & Order' used true stories as a jump off point for their tales and 'Venom' has one of the more sicker cases. Murderous men sometimes seem like a dime a dozen, but a woman - especially the black widow type - standout. The lack of conscious, the lust for greed and manipulating, grooming your son into becoming your accomplice makes it all the more vile. Built around the crimes of Sante & Kenny Kimes drops the background of abuse, neglect that created a monster & inserts a sexual component that is just disgusting.
Liann Crosby (Laila Robins) is wounded by a gunshot, her male escort killed where it first appears the latter was the target. Soon the picture emerges that the shooter was Dennis Pollock (Matt Keeslar) a young husband to the widowed wealthy much older Joyce Pollock (Penny Fuller). It smells like an affair going on he was trying to keep under wraps. So what a bombshell is it when it's discovered that Dennis is actually Liann's son and digging uncovers a long criminal history defrauding, killing people that come into their lives and two people very mentally unwell.
There's a fair number of L&O episodes that are made / broken on a last minute reveal or a satisfying piece of resolution, but 'Venom' doesn't get that honor. It's big surprise comes just past the halfway mark. Of the main cast, Abbie (Angie Harmon) gets to sink her teeth into the material the most, but reoccurring Dr. Skoda (JK Simmons) has an efficient piece too. The ending isn't shocking because you can sense it a mile away, but at least the real case it was based on served maximum justice. If you have a distaste for awful people, pathological liars this episode is a treat.
Liann Crosby (Laila Robins) is wounded by a gunshot, her male escort killed where it first appears the latter was the target. Soon the picture emerges that the shooter was Dennis Pollock (Matt Keeslar) a young husband to the widowed wealthy much older Joyce Pollock (Penny Fuller). It smells like an affair going on he was trying to keep under wraps. So what a bombshell is it when it's discovered that Dennis is actually Liann's son and digging uncovers a long criminal history defrauding, killing people that come into their lives and two people very mentally unwell.
There's a fair number of L&O episodes that are made / broken on a last minute reveal or a satisfying piece of resolution, but 'Venom' doesn't get that honor. It's big surprise comes just past the halfway mark. Of the main cast, Abbie (Angie Harmon) gets to sink her teeth into the material the most, but reoccurring Dr. Skoda (JK Simmons) has an efficient piece too. The ending isn't shocking because you can sense it a mile away, but at least the real case it was based on served maximum justice. If you have a distaste for awful people, pathological liars this episode is a treat.