“With a show that’s been around for so long, you’re worried if we’re running out of stories to tell,” Law & Order: Special Victims Unit showrunner, Michele Fazekas,…
“With a show that’s been around for so long, you’re worried if we’re running out of stories to tell,” Law & Order: Special Victims Unit showrunner, Michele Fazekas, told the Daily Beast’s Obsessed ahead of the show’s milestone 600th episode, airing Thursday night on NBC. “The nice thing is finding new ways to push our characters and new ways to tell these stories.
It’s not just about, ‘What crazy crime can we come up with?’ It’s really about where these characters are taking us.” When the long-running crime procedural returned for its landmark 28th season this past month, it premiered with an episode that eerily mirrored the Cornell gang rape case.
Though the episode was written and produced prior to the September civil suit brought by a former Cornell student known only as Jane Doe against the university, its Chi Phi fraternity and seven of its members, dubbed the Cornell 7, for alleged group sexual assault that occurred at the frat house in 2024, it wasn’t a case of being “ripped from the headlines,” as SVU has become known for.
Rather, it was an eerie coincidence that speaks to the show’s resonance within the sexual assault reckoning that has been taking place in the culture over the past decade. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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