Twitter Charges 'Law & Order: Hate Crimes' With Felony Obtuseness
The next installment of Dick Wolf's long-running "Law & Order" franchise seeks to turn hate crimes into network drama.
Deadline reported yesterday (September 4) that NBC ordered 13 episodes of "Law & Order: Hate Crimes," which draws from the stories of New York City's real life Hate Crimes Task Force. Wolf told Deadline that he believes the new procedural drama will launch "a real dialogue" about “a world where hate crimes have reached an egregious level.”
His faith in the project failed to sway Twitter users, many of whom wondered if Wolf—the White man who created a franchise that sensationally depicts cops as noble crusaders against unyielding criminality—can make this show well:
Law and order is coming out with a hate crimes offshoot, meanwhile, writers of colour can’t get airtime. Lmao but sure let’s watch BIPOC/queer folks get hurt/killed. No way that won’t backfire in this ~climate~
— KX (@karla_xvx) September 5, 2018
law and order: hate crimes sounds like a show that literally no one will enjoy
— mirandahobbesVEVO (@SPRinNYC) September 4, 2018
coming to NBC this fall: a dramatic re-enactment of the time you almost got gay bashed on the 1 train
— mirandahobbesVEVO (@SPRinNYC) September 4, 2018
Lmao @theferocity's reaction to "Law and Order: Hate Crimes" was perfect pic.twitter.com/zy8nU7TcJj
— AM to DM by BuzzFeed News (@AM2DM) September 5, 2018
If you're gonna do it, just bring back regular Law & Order with Lt. Van Buren and another dope detective pair.
— Britni Danielle (@BritniDWrites) September 4, 2018
Nobody wants to see Law and Order: Hate Crimes when Trump is in the White House. That's the ultimate hate crime. pic.twitter.com/MfKJuVMO0H
SUCH a bad idea and am sure the showrunner and executive producer will be old straight white men and the writers youngish straight white men able to have black/brown/LGBTQ torture porn on tv every week#LawandOrder #LawandOrderHateCrimes #Tortureporn #Hardpass pic.twitter.com/z0XnevUkdC
— Cherry the Geek (@cherry_LA) September 4, 2018
Is this Law and Order: Hate Crimes going to be a 12 part limited series about how Trump got elected President?
— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) September 4, 2018
I have watched an amazing amount of Law & Order and there is not a single thing I can imagine going more poorly than a hate crimes focused series.
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) September 4, 2018
“Like this, but replace SVU stuff with uh, hate crimes” “Great” https://t.co/Q0ReaqnSi9
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) September 4, 2018