After Inkoo Kang, a critic for The Hollywood Reporter, described “The Wire” as painting police with a “heroic gloss,” Wendell Pierce, who played Detective Bunk Moreland on the show, pushed back. “As TV viewers we are locked inside a police perspective,” Kathryn VanArendonk wrote recently on Vulture. “Our sympathies have generally been with victims,” Warren Leight, the showrunner of “Law & Order: SVU,” said last week on the Hollywood Reporter podcast “TV’s Top 5,” in a conversation about rethinking the show. Cops consult on movies and series, helping mold the characters to their self-conception, and then they take cues from those characters in their own police work. “LAW & ORDER” has become President Trump’s preferred call-to-arms as the government dispatches police forces and National Guard soldiers against the protesters.

Source: New York Times June 10, 2020 17:04 UTC