Olivia Benson is back, Dun-dun is back

While most of her colleagues, especially the male ones, and as the television detective cliché dictates, are hardened by the brutality of their work, seek refuge in alcohol or stray through alternative moral twists to make their own law, Olivia Benson - Mariska Hargitay, the absolute protagonist of

who will return to Calle 13 tomorrow — has made a trip in reverse.

For Benson, time, and especially the "heinous crimes" that she fights from the 16th district police station, have made her more empathetic, more tolerant, more open. There is hardly anything left in her of the moderately insolent police, once again the cliché is in charge, which more than 20 years ago it looked disdainfully at prostitutes and addicts. Things have gone so wrong in the world that the now captain knows that there is no point in positioning herself in the crowded ranks of cynicism; There is neither room nor is it appropriate to contribute more disenchantment and more gall. Flanked by two portraits, her son Noah and Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a statement of intent, she has turned her office into a moral sanctuary from which to combat sex crimes and comfort victims.

That after more than two decades the Dick Wolf series is still on the air is as unusual as it remains in top shape and gives us prodigious episodes such as

, the tribute that last season they dedicated to the ravages of the pandemic in New York City.

Only that the television awards are blinded by the glare of the platforms explains that the extraordinary interpretive duel between Hargitay and Sarita Choudhury did not win a prize draw.

He doesn't need them either, he has the greatest: the fervor of a legion of followers addicted to his

.

You can follow EL PAÍS TELEVISIÓN on

Sign in to continue reading

Just by having an account you can read this article, it's free

Sign upLogin

Thanks for reading EL PAÍS