It has just been announced that NBC’s long-running crime drama “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” will touch on the death of George Floyd as well as on the protests against police that are currently spreading around the country like wildfire.
Executive producer Warren Leight revealed this while appearing on The Hollywood Reporter “TV’s Top 5” podcast, where he explained that Floyd’s death “has to come up and it will.”
“There are ways, we will find our way in to tell the story,” Leight said.
“Presumably our cops will still be trying to do the right thing but it’s going to be harder for them and they’re going to understand why it’s hard for them.”
He went on to add that he will switch up the show’s writers “to bring in new voices, fresh voices, different voices,” although he did not detail any specific changes.
As for the show itself, Leight said that “SVU” has “tried really hard in the last year to show how class and race affect the outcomes of justice in society,” but he acknowledged that he’s “beginning to suspect ‘really hard’ wasn’t enough.”
“This has to be a moment where people make themselves uncomfortable — where people in power have to make themselves uncomfortable,” he said, according to Fox News.
Leight added that in terms of how cops are viewed, he “can’t make every episode about a bad cop.”
He did make sure to continue by saying that Lieutenant Olivia Benson (played by Mariska Hargitay) “makes mistakes … but she’s empathic, which is I think what separates the cops on our television show from a lot of what we’re seeing these days on our livestreams.”
The executive producer also said that he’s “been made uncomfortable by a number of shows that glorify the use of violence in interrogation or the use of threat.”
In addition, Leight said that future episodes of “SVU” will portray the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“We’re going to reflect New York in the pandemic. What happens to someone who is sexually assaulted during the height of the coronavirus outbreak,” he said.
Earlier this year, it was announced that “SVU” had been renewed for the next three years, meaning there are plenty of episodes to come!
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.
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