Spoilers forward for Episode 7 of Regulation & Order Season 24, referred to as “Fact and Penalties.”
The earliest particulars about Regulation & Order‘s newest episode within the 2024 TV schedule revealed that the crew can be on the case of homicide inside the household of a distinguished decide, with Baxter stepping in when a witness refused to cooperate. An unique clip even confirmed Value and Maroun clashing over forcing a pupil to testify, however none of it spoiled that Hudson College was on the middle of the investigation. If I might been conscious, I’d have predicted one thing would go particularly fallacious, as a result of if I do know something after all of the SVU and L&O I’ve watched, it is that Hudson College is the worst place to go within the nine-show Dick Wolf TV universe.
The homicide sufferer this week? A professor at Hudson U. The killer? A pupil from Hudson U. The witness who needed to threat her training and her place in the US to testify? One other pupil from Hudson U. The case got here to an unsatisfying ending for each Value and Baxter when Baxter was pressured by the mayor to not pressure the decide to testify. Nothing good occurs at this school!
Now, to be clear – it would not mirror poorly on the franchise that Hudson is nicely often called a foul place to be, as a result of a fictional college can be utilized for crimes with out the issues of mentioning a real-life school in New York Metropolis. However Hudson is such a hotbed of crime that it is virtually grow to be a operating joke that nothing good ever occurs there, to the purpose that then-SVU showrunner Warren Leight even stated that “after all” Hudson is the place an incident occurred in a Season 21 episode, and I wrote at size in regards to the fictional school’s unhealthy rap following a Season 23 episode of the L&O spinoff.
In truth, USA Community – a.okay.a. the house of SVU marathons – has run a marathon titled “Do not Go To Hudson College,” full with a particular promo:
Do not say we did not warn you! Do not miss this particular “Do not Go To Hudson College” Marathon of @nbcsvu, beginning NOW! pic.twitter.com/4bwGG0k89bJanuary 27, 2019
Regulation & Order and Regulation & Order: SVU undoubtedly aren’t comedies, however if you happen to’re anyone who will sit down for a day of those reveals or binge-watch with a Peacock subscription, then the chances are most likely good that you could recognize USA giving that title to a marathon. (Enjoyable truth: Seth Rogen is an veteran of binge-watching SVU.) It additionally wasn’t a one-and-done, because the community has run the marathon a number of instances through the years:
#SVU moments out of context. See if you happen to can spot them once you watch our “Do not Go To Hudson College” Marathon as we speak on @USA_Network! pic.twitter.com/NDOuy0wvX6January 15, 2023
In all equity, Hudson College tends to be featured extra typically on SVU than the unique Regulation & Order, however the Hudson curse struck Season 24 with “Fact and Penalties.” This really is one in all my favourite episodes of the season to this point, so Hudson is de facto solely a foul place in-universe for characters in Dick Wolf’s New York Metropolis. For followers who do not should reside in that fictionalized NYC… nicely, I am certain these “Do not Go To Hudson College” marathons have been watched by loads of folks!
Discover out what’s going to go fallacious subsequent at Hudson College with new episodes of Regulation & Order at 8 p.m. ET and Regulation & Order: SVU at 9 p.m. ET on NBC Thursdays. You’ll be able to stream each reveals on Peacock as nicely, and doubtless discover an SVU marathon on USA with out a lot hassle!