Adding to its list of ripped-from-the-headlines episodes, Law & Order: SVU will address George Floyd’s death in Season 22. As showrunner Warren Leight explained on The Hollywood Reporter’s TV’s Top 5 podcast, Floyd’s May 25 death “has to come up and…
Adding to its list of ripped-from-the-headlines episodes, Law & Order: SVU will address George Floyd’s death in Season 22. As showrunner Warren Leight explained on The Hollywood Reporter’s TV’s Top 5 podcast, Floyd’s May 25 death “has to come up and it will.” He elaborated: “There are ways, we will find our way in to tell the story. 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.”
The Tony Award winner also revealed plans to diversify the writers’ room for the NBC procedural in an “effort to bring in new voices, fresh voices, different voices.” He further noted 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’s “beginning to suspect ‘really hard’ wasn’t enough.
