What is the secret of Law and Order, the series on sexual crimes, which has Campanella as director of some chapters

Crimes related to gender violence, domestic violence, and sexual abuse abound in New York. Also crimes against disabled people, children, minorities and the elderly. All this portrays Law and Order: Special Victims Unitthe legendary series that has been on the air since 1999, has Juan Jose Campanella as one of its star directors, and now he’s bounced back Netflix.

In this series of judicial and police procedurals, all these cases will be solved, in fiction, by the Special Victims Unit (SVU) of the 16th district of the NYPD, with Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) at the helm: a protagonist who he broke the mold and became a symbol of justice the era of reports of gender violence and sexual violence.

Why it matters that Netflix has arrived Law and Order: Special Victims Unit? It is the longest-running series in the history of American television.with 542 episodes so far, and the only one broadcast since 1999: always on the NBC network.

He has won 32 Emmy Awards and the highly anticipated 25th season premiered on January 18 of this year (with only thirteen episodes, due to the Hollywood strike). It will only be seen here in June on the Universal TV signal.

The record is historic. On the podium of the series with the most episodes broadcast in the United States are The Simpsons, Gun smoke (Gun smoke) AND Lassie. follows them Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, seasons 6, 7 and 8 of which arrived on Netflix on February 15. The same day as another great series from the “golden age of TV”: NCIS. AS, Nostalgia for the prestigious fiction of the turn of the century seems to be renewed through streaming.

Being a procedural series, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit The same structure is repeated episode after episode: in the first part of each episode the investigation into a crime and the arrest of the suspect is exposed, and in the second the judicial vicissitudes of each case are opened. How the network of prosecutors, defenders and judges who are supposed to protect victims works.

Since the first season, in September 1999, the founding protagonists, detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and detective Elliot Stabler (Cristoforo Meloni), showed how the cases, many of them gruesome, affected their personal lives and emotional stability. What’s more: there have been episodes in which even officers were persecuted by psychopaths, rapists and other very dangerous New York criminals.

Based on real events

But the focus of Law and Order: SVU It’s inside investigations into sexual crimes, child abuse, gender violence and violence against the elderly and minorities. With one key fact: most stories are based on real events, edited for fiction.

And cases of intolerance, freedom of expression, police violence, gender identity and female emancipation have also been integrated into the universe Law and Order: SVUalong with the conflicts of the protagonists.

Because they have not remained unchanged. Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) left the series after the first twelve seasons and there have been additions, absences and returns.

In the current team, still led by the beloved Captain Olivia Benson (Hargitay), there are Sergeant Odafin “Fin” Tutuola (Ice-T), Detective Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) and Joe Velasco (Ottavio Pisano) and Deputy District Attorney Dominick “Sonny” Carisi (Pietro Scanavino).

Campanella, the Argentine who shines in the series

There is also an Argentine presence. Juan José Campanella, one of the recurring directors of the seriesdirected the 500th episode, in October 2021.

And his vision can be seen in the three seasons already available on Netflix: Campanella directs the tenth episode of the 6th season, the twentieth of the 7th and the third of the 8th. And he returned to direct the fourth episode of the brand new 25th season, Obligation to reportwhich debuted on February 8 in the United States and can be seen here in June, also on Universal TV.

Campanella, director of great successes of Argentine cinema, such as The Secret in Their Eyes, Son of the Bride, Luna de Avellaneda or The Story of the Weasels (just to name a few), has always been proud to be part of the series.

The brain in the shadows

Dick Wolf there’s the brain behind it Law and Order: SVU created an entire multiverse of series. This was the first detachment of the founding series (the “mothership”). It is, of course, about Law and order, which debuted on September 13, 1990 on NBC. Nine years later it arrived L&O: Special Victims Unitand they followed him L&O: criminal intent (2001), L&O: Jury trial (2005) e L&O: Los Angeles (2010).

First of all, Law and orderit lasted twenty seasons between 1990 and 2010.

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit continued to grow as Dick Wolf expanded his network of series, all connected: the police New York undercover, Belief, FBI AND FBI’s Most Wantedor journalistic drama expiration. And at the same time they were born Chicago fire, Chicago PD, Chicago Med AND Chicago Justice.

Dick Wolf has also produced crossovers with the series Murder: street lifealso on NBC, based on the book by David Simon, and which would serve as a precursor to the crime drama The cablefrom HBO.

There is another bridge between these police officers. A character of Homocidedetective John Munch, went from investigating the streets of Baltimore to joining the cast in New York Law and Order: SVU for fifteen seasons.

And Dick Wolf’s sagacity was fundamental to the series, even in its 25 seasons. he knew how to combine private and public (often inspired by news events), without losing one of its focuses: making cases of sexual abuse and violence visible, without cheap shots or sensational treatments.

Therefore, as the series progressed, the Special Victims Unit was joined by allies of detectives from the New York County Manhattan District Attorney’s office (the Sex Crimes Bureau consultants) and the medical examiner’s office.

And when District Attorney Alexandra Cabot (Stephanie March) left the series in season five, Case Novak (Diane Neal) replaced her, working alongside a network of psychologists, doctors, lawyers and journalists – the foundation of the series.

Will the success of Law & Order: SVU ever fade away? Will the fervor of broadcast television audiences change or be renewed thanks to streaming? When season 25 was announced, the cast had a big party in New York: they retraced all the milestones of the Special Victims Unit. But the actors didn’t stay until very late: they had to get up early, with new cases to solve. And more vulnerable stories to protect.