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I’d like to complain about the abrupt firing of Jamie Gray Hyder and Demore Barnes from Law & Order: SVU. Both characters were a welcome addition to the show! Why did NBC drop them? I am very, very disappointed. Hoping you can explain. —Eve
The franchise is well known show is not a lifetime assignment, although Kat (Hyder) and Deputy Chief Garland (Barnes) had unusually short tenures. Whether this was a creative or budgetary decision was never explained, but I’d agree the optics were worse than usual, losing a young LGBTQ officer and the show’s first Black deputy chief in one fell swoop.
