NBC ordered production on Season 11 in April He said in an interview that one of his motivations was to "make sure that my episodes as a writer sit on the shelf with the same episodes that made me a fan. It's not that I don't like it, it's just that there's a lot of legal gray area there.
According to Betancourt there "seemed to be a gap between the show and the fans and their access to the show, and Twitter really seemed to close it. Neal Baer considered the revelation to be nothing special and summarized "Have the writers always thought he was gay? Have they avoided saying it? To describe the episode, Baer said "'Is pedophilia hardwired? During negotiations for a new contract the duo attempted to go after back-end profits.
NBC threatened to replace Hargitay and Meloni if "they persist in their demands for more money". Christine Lahti played the new executive assistant district attorney, Sonya Paxton , for five episodes, starting with the first episode through to the fourth episode. She returned briefly in the eighth episode, where she clashed with Cabot. She's coming to clean things up".
SVU executive producer Baer described her character as "a funny adrenaline junkie who loves to be in the middle of everything and shares a past with Stabler. She's been married before and has a lot of secrets. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly concluded her first episode as, "an episode filled with such clunky dialogue and improbable details that by the end, she seemed like a 'special victim' herself".
Wentworth Miller guest starred in the first episode as a police officer named Nate Kendall, who saves a rape victim in the beginning of the episode and helps SVU solve the case. He said that the interesting role attracted him to the show with: "the character was fully developed with addictions and problems both personally and professionally.
