S.W.A.T. stays apolitical tonight in tackling the "political third rail issue" of a school shooting

TVLine

Showrunner Shawn Ryan points out that SWAT officers aren't political in responding to a school shooting. "I knew that it’s a political third rail issue, without a doubt — and when you’re doing broadcast TV, your whole reason for being is to appeal to everyone, not to one political side or the other," he says of tonight's episode, titled "School." "There’s just the question of how (entertaining) is it going to be to watch an hour of television in this arena. I anticipated that we would get to make the episode, but I knew that there would be 'higher bars than usual,' let me put it that way."