Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticEarlier this season, one of the most venerable franchises on TV was forced to confront itself.Returning for its 22nd season, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” stepped tentatively into a new world.
The death of George Floyd had catalyzed a movement against the sorts of people Dick Wolf’s series had positioned as heroes, or at least people with a right to be involved in just about every social problem.
Years after emerging as the standard-bearing cop show on TV — outlasting even the mothership “Law & Order” series — “SVU” was up against a powerful social movement.
And in its season premiere last November, the show tried to split the difference, depicting the show’s police squad newly examining their biases.
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