YMMV / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S7 E22 "Influence"

• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Jamie Hoskins. Because of her young age and her bipolar disorder, Novak tries to get her a relatively light sentence. She is presented as a vulnerable young woman led astray by her idol, a rock star with anti-psychiatry views, who convinced her that her medication was damaging her brain. But her actions throughout the episode make it difficult to sympathize with her. When she stops taking her pills, she goes through a manic phase, having sex with two of her male friends, then falsely accusing them of rape, ruining their lives, costing one of them a college scholarship, and getting them (and herself) expelled from school. She then tries to commit suicide by deliberately causing a car accident, injuring six innocent people and killing another girl. Throughout the trial, she shows no remorse for her crimes and still refuses to take her medication. She even has the gall to blame her parents for everything that she did while off her pills. After all that, house arrest, a court-ordered drug regimen, and a short sentence in a psychiatric facility seems very lenient, considering the devastation she caused. Near the end of the episode, it finally hits her how badly she messed up, but for many viewers, it's too little, too late.