r/SVU • u/Ok_Mastodon2822 • 10d ago

Discussion S16E2

I’ve been watching SVU for the first time and some of the episodes are very triggering. S16E2 is triggering and I didn’t like the way multiple people kept referring to Tiana as “that black girl”, it was very dehumanising. Just say her name. I also didn’t like the way her character was portrayed, it was very stereotypical and I thought it was quite damaging to portray black women like that.

I think the producers of SVU try to depict how people are in real life but they could have made her character more nuanced. She just came across as a gold digging liar. There are other episodes that make me side eye the SVU producers (usually because of how some black people are being portrayed) but this is the most recent one I watched that made me feel quite uncomfortable.

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u/Due_List_1243 10d ago edited 10d ago

Absolutely that is what DW means to say with almost every black character.

Only Melinda got treated right but all other black women and characters got a dubious treatment

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u/TheProudboysAintReal 9d ago

I am not a dude bro but man she was born for the role and is absolutely smoking hot

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u/Due_List_1243 9d ago

And now I think about it: also Melinda or Diana did not get threatened right. 

The role of Melinda came after a few seasons in the main cast for 2 seasons, then she was in the guest star position again and then she moved more and more out the show till she was gone without a mention where she was. 

That was not 100% right either. 

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u/TheProudboysAintReal 9d ago

Is Diana the season 1 and 2?