![]() But I wish Organized Crime was more compelling and felt more like a Law & Order show. And, to be honest, I’d kind of be okay with it if that were what’s happening. Plus, it feels like Elliot’s return, and the entirety of Organized Crime, is just the latest step in a long con to finally get Benson and Stabler romantically together-thereby ending TV’s longest slow-burn romance. However ridiculous it is, I wanted Stabler and his team to be taking down an entirely new organized crime syndicate each week.Īlso, I think it’s kind of in bad taste to bring back Stabler’s wife only to immediately kill her. And that’s just… not what I want from a Law & Order show. The assumption is that Wheatley is somehow responsible for the hit placed on Stabler, but it’s one of those things where the audience knows this but the characters don’t. A new Law & Order crossover is finally here, and it kicked off with tonights episode of SVU and then carried over to Organized Crime. Instead, the backbone of the show seems to be Stabler’s (and the rest of the Organized Crime team’s) quest to take down Richard Wheatley (Dylan McDermott) and his criminal empire. We don’t learn (for sure) who the culprit is at the end of the pilot for Organized Crime. The mystery of who put a hit on Stabler, resulting in the death of his wife, is introduced in the SVU episode and is then used as the basis for the entire plotline of Organized Crime. ![]() When I put on an episode of Law & Order, I expect the case to be solved by the end of the hour-or, in the case of a crossover event, at the end of the crossover. While I may be a fan of serialized television, I don’t watch Law & Order shows for those kinds of stories. The plot, on the other hand, is less good. Additionally, Variety can exclusively report that streaming consumption for the season premieres of the flagship Law & Order series and Law & Order: Organized Crime both exceeded. The scenes they shared, and the way the two episodes dig deep into that trauma, make the whole event worth watching. And I appreciated the way the show embraced the idea of Stabler’s sudden disappearance (he was unceremoniously written off the show between seasons when Meloni didn’t renew his contract) having weighed heavily on Benson. As a fan of those older episodes, there’s a certain nostalgic joy found in simply seeing the two of them interact with each other again. You can feel the years of chemistry they’ve got, mixed in with the years of tension caused by Stabler’s disappearance from her life. On the good side, it’s nice seeing Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson reunited with Meloni’s Stabler. There’s a lot of stuff I liked and a lot of stuff I didn’t like. (SVU has already been renewed through Season 24 and Organized Crime‘s Season 2 pickup seems inevitable.) Scroll down for our hopes. And, as expected, it’s a bit of a mixed bag. I haven’t regularly watched SVU since Christopher Meloni’s Detective Stabler left the show, so I was pretty excited to see his long-awaited return in this two-part crossover/pilot for the latest Law & Order spin-off.
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