Law & Order: SVU

SVU Season 21 Episode 1 Review

Sometimes watching Law & Order: SVU hurts. It shows viewers week after week what it would be like if there were cops that doubled as social workers and didn't care what it took to get justice for victims. Law & Order: SVU Season 21 Episode 1 was a powerful example of that,. In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein's death and the way so many other super-rich people have got away with sexual assault, it was hard to watch. Tobias Moore was a big-time movie director who, as ... more

New Study Reveals How Crime TV Series Distort Understanding of Race and Criminal Justice System

Today, Color Of Change released a first of its kind report titled “Normalizing Injustice: The Dangerous Misrepresentations that Define Television’s Scripted Crime Genre.” The report is a study of how scripted series that fall under the crime television genre depict the criminal justice system and play a significant role in helping to advance what the study identifies are distorted representations of crime, justice, race, and gender in media and culture. Given that these shows collectively reach tens of millions of Americans annually,... more

Law & Order: Svu Promotes New Detective to Series Regular

Congratulations are in order for Law & Order: SVU‘s newest recruit. Jamie Gray Hyder has been promoted to series regular for the NBC procedural’s current season, TVLine has confirmed. Hyder’s character, a former Vice officer named Katriona “Kat” Azar Tamin, made her first appearance in SVU‘s Season 21 premiere, which found her going undercover as an aspiring actress... more

Svu Premiere Recap: Who Left? Who's Promoted? And Who's the New A.D.A.?

Law & Order: SVU kicked off its premiere with a nod to Gunsmoke, the series whose record it’s surpassing in this history-making Season 21. (Missed it? Rewind and check out what’s playing on the TV at the bar.) But after that brief, meta moment, Olivia Benson & Co. are back at it — because even after two decades, perps gonna perp. The episode opens with Carisi packing up his desk and telling Rollins he’s turned in his gun. Wait, what? She ca... more