In one scene, Benson is turned off by her date, a crime reporter, when he wants to roleplay the subway rapes that she is investigating. Tom McCarthy, who plays Nick in the scene, earned critical acclaim in 2015, including an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2016, for writing and directing Spotlight (2015), a dramatization of investigative journalists from the Boston Globe uncovering the scandal and cover-up of child molestation and sexual abuse in the local Catholic archdiocese.