WARNING: This article may contain possible spoilers and predictions for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 21. Read at your own risk.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 21 is about to arrive. After months of waiting, fans can now celebrate with the longest-running television series for its milestone.
Returning showrunner Warren Leight reveals that the new season will be full of surprises. Just like any young adult who reaches the legal age, the celebration will be memorable.
This is, at least, what Leight told in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. According to him, most people do not remember their nineteenth birthdays. But, with their twenty-first, it's different.
Needless to say, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will also have to celebrate its 21 years on small screens. It will be "exciting" and memorable.
Along with the "celebration," growth and change will also be featured on the new season. So, fans should expect a new dynamic when the series premieres on the network.
The ADA position is now open after Philip Winchester's departure from the show. While fans are expecting for the details about the new ADA, Cartermatt believes that the show is withholding all of the information about the subject. And there might be a huge surprise that will happen in the middle of the season.
TV Insider hints that the "new ADA" will be one of the most notable changes in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 21. Raúl Esparza and Philip Winchester played Barba and Stone. They did great jobs being the ADA in their respective seasons.
While the position is open, it seems that no new ADA will enter the season. No confirmation has been given yet. However, as explained by Warren Leight, the Barba and Stone pair is "irreplaceable."
Instead of having a new ADA "immediately," the "workload" might be disseminated to the rest of the DAs, which is likely to happen. If ever this dynamic pushes through, then, the first episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 21 may not be seen inside the court yet.
Even so, the showrunner stressed out the word "immediately." Therefore, there is a chance that a new ADA will emerge in the later episodes of the new season.
Aside from the new ADA, it has been also emphasized that Season 21 might feature a crossover episode with one of today's most-watched series.
For years, the Law & Order franchise did a few crossovers with the One Chicago franchise. While this may still happen in the future, Warren Leight expressed more his eagerness to do a crossover with NBC's Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Per reports, this is the show that he "wants."
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 21 will start dropping episodes on September 26, on NBC.
