Were squeezing her between work and family to see if she can survive.
Both professionally and personally, shes going to have a hard time.
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This is going to be if you took a deck of cards and mixed it up and shuffled it.
So theres no strict formula.
I want each episode to be different.
Both professionally and personally shes going to have a hard time.
A lot of its going to have to do with Noah, her son.
It gets kicked off in the first episode and it blows up into something very big.
It looks like its very simple.
We know Brooke Shields is coming in as someone who shakes up Bensons world.
Does that have to do with that Noah story line?Yes, it does.
Go on.Im not going to tell you.
Whats next for Bensons No.
2, Fin?Fin is Fin.
Fin sets the season going, actually.
We start big, and thats what we wanted to do.
Its a big episode, the first one.
They will establish a close female friendship.
Not just mentor/mentee, but also as the girls-running-the-show-jot down of relationship.
Is the Rollins-Carisi relationship moving forward at all this season?I see them as buddy cops.
If you were doing a buddy cop movie, thats what theyll be.
I mean, theyll get closer too, but romantically, I dont think so.
What were doing with Barba this year is were giving him a bigger fight.
Hes going to be up against a lot more legal challenges than he had been in the past.
So he will wrestle with moral issues, which I dont think he had to in the past.
You brought up theLaw & OrderOG, thats what Im going to bring to this.
So each time we go to court, it will be about something that will make the audience think.
They will be antagonists.
Phillip will come in and he wont be the nicest person our characters ever met.
What hes going to be doing too is basically bringing all of the franchises into one.
Hes connectingLaw & OrdertoChicagofranchises, and nowSVU, so its kind of cool.
Do you have any plans to reunite Benson and Stabler?No.
His name is tossed around but we have no plans.
Anything for Bensons love life this year?To be determined.
Remember, I told you Im going to drag her through the woods?
Were squeezing her this season between work and family to see if she can survive with both.
Thats basically the theme of these 22 episodes.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unitreturns Wednesday at 9 p.m.
