'SVU' Has a New Dr. Huang... Kind of — Meet Dr. Alexis Hanover
By Pippa RagaFeb. 7 2020, Updated 6:02 p.m. ET
Fans of Law and Order: Special Victim's Unit know that the police procedural's tight forged is a big a part of the reason why audience had been coming again each and every week for the past 20 years.
And while this season, usual suspects Olivia Benson and Sonny Carisi saw adjustments in titles (Olivia is now Captain Benson and Carisi has turned in his cop badge to become an ADA), we now have also welcomed some logo new faces. Detective Katriona "Kit Kat" Azar and Chief Garland are filling the shoes of Carisi and Chief Dodds, respectively.
But we have additionally been in short introduced to SVU's new psychologist, Dr. Alexis Hanover, who's already proving to be a valuable asset to the squad.
Here's the whole lot you need to learn about Dr. Alexis Hanover, the new psychologist on SVU.
Who is the new psychologist on SVU? What you wish to have to find out about Dr. Alexis Hanover.
If you've been staring at SVU for a while now, you almost certainly know that the squad hasn't had a resident forensic psychiatrist for rather a long time now.
The show's ultimate and longest-running shrink-in-residence was once Dr. Huang (B.D. Wong), who left the squad after Season 12's "Bombshell." That said, it feels good to have a new mental health professional on the team again and proper off the bat, Dr. Alexis Hanover is helping the staff delve into their very own pasts in order to grow to be better detectives themselves.
Dr. Hanover is offered in Season 21's "The Darkest Journey Home," and we see her paintings with Olivia, Rollins and Fin to teach them new witness interviewing tactics. However, the handiest approach the workforce can learn this new trauma-based interview approach effectively is to experience it for themselves, in step with the physician. And this, after all, involves having them delve into their very own pasts.
Although Dr. Hanover to start with meets resistance from the squad, particularly from Rollins, she effectively will get the group to open up about their traumas. Benson recalls the time she was held hostage by William Lewis for many days.
Rollins reluctantly goes again to a time when she was sexually assaulted, and Fin talks about the time he saw his mom die. By going back to these painful reminiscences, the workforce also learns the right way to guide sufferers and witnesses into unlocking recollections and details about crimes they've survived.
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Together, the SVU squad has been thru a lot, to mention the least. Dr. Hanover is a super addition to the team, who allows audience a extra intimate look into the non-public lives and traumas of these another way stoic detectives.
Based on her creation, Dr. Hanover would possibly play a larger role all the way through this groundbreaking season as she helps characters deal with tricky however vital issues from their pasts.
Who plays Dr. Hanover on SVU?
Dr. Hanover makes an look in "We Dream of Machine Elves," an episode during which Rollins goes undercover to determine who's been drugging and assaulting vacationers in the city.
Meanwhile, Benson helps the sufferers separate their memories from the hallucinations brought on via the drugs — and we expect Dr. Hanover will play a significant part in serving to Benson with those sufferers.
Fans would possibly acknowledge Dr. Hanover as actress Amy Hargreaves (13 Reasons Why, Homeland) who has in fact appeared a couple of times prior to in the Law and Order franchise as different characters. This form of confusion also came about earlier this season with Wentworth Miller, and we're not sure what's going on with Dick Wolf's casting team.
As it had been, Amy has acted in SVU as characters Jane Wellesley and Iris Peterson, in Criminal Intent as Karyn Miller, in addition to on the unique Law and Order as Dana Wechsler.
Catch Amy as Dr. Hanover this season when new episodes of SVU air Thursdays at 10 p.m. on NBC.
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