"Law & Order: UK" Crush (TV Episode 2011) Poster

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8/10
Right, working girl? Explains the push-up bra.
Mrpalli7726 October 2017
A porter was called up after a tenant had noticed water fell down from ceiling: the apartment upstairs had a water drop. When they got in, they're shocked in finding a woman stabbed to death lying on the ground. Detectives soon realized she's a prostitute due to the high amount of cash hidden under the mattress and for some sex toys located in bedside cabinet. Brooks and Devlin started questioning some johns (even a eighteen years old nerd) as well as the secretive porter, who used to have arguments over the victim. A fellow Serbian hooker (Maya Lubinsky) told them her friend had an affair with a renowned history professor and writer (he wrote bestsellers related to crusades); not a proper relationship for her, but he was really in love, giving her luxurious gifts. The problem is that he's married with a sick son, but the wife doesn't seem to care about the affair, she wants to save her marriage. Is it possible? Be ready for the twist ending.

The episode is not so original (a man who cheat on his wife) but still enjoyable. How can a family man fall in love with a prostitute much younger than him? You have to be crazy.
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7/10
The bad touch
safenoe14 November 2022
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Watching Crush, from the third season of Law & Order: UK, we learn about the connection between herpes and cerebral palsy - so it's one for Google or Siri to confirm I guess.

The episode was quite sad at the end with the revelation between herpes and cerebral palsy, and quite the punchline and sucker punch it was and I do wonder what the writers were trying to say. Were they advocating safe sex between prostitutes and clients, or faithfulness in a marriage I guess.

I like Law & Order: UK, especially the outdoor shots amidst the general public, many of whom are completely naive to the filming.
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Good but medically inaccurate--writer fail
puppyaddict7 September 2011
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A rehash of an old Law & Order episode in the US (not sure if SVU or not), decently done. Several of the UK episodes have been remakes of the US episodes, but that's OK...the laws sometimes differ slightly, and it's fun watching these actors handle the cases anyway, especially when there are some cultural differences. However, I despise when writers pull some "latest development" news from the headlines (in this case, a single 4-year-old medical study in Australia, as far as I could find with a quick Internet search) and base the entire impetus for the episode on it. "you gave me herpes, that's why our son has cerebral palsy, I hate you" as a motive doesn't work so well when the herpes group A(alpha) viruses are the ones most people and prostitutes have (commonly "cold sores," genital herpes) and they showed zero correlation to cerebral palsy--it's the B (beta) group that has the CP correlation, which would be highly unlikely to appear in an eastern European prostitute living in England unless one of her Johns was a vet who worked with monkeys--group B is not typical "herpes," basically. However, there was some correlation to preterm births, so it would have made more sense for the kid to have a disease that could be caused by premature birth! Now of course everyone will be terrified they will have a CP kid just because they're one of the 80%+ people out there with herpes type I or II, the group A types. Not to mention that one study is not considered proof in the scientific community...maybe more studies have been done, but they don't pop up in a quick search.
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