Legislation & Order: SVU is getting into its 27th season on the 2025 TV schedule, and it’s arduous to consider how lengthy the present has been round for. The Dick Wolf drama premiered in 1999 on NBC and has grow to be a staple on the community. Ice-T lately posted an image from the set of Season 27, and now Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni are celebrating by recalling their first strains on the present. And their reactions are A+.
Hargitay and Meloni have been the unique duo on SVU, each making their debuts within the first episode of the sequence. They’ve been by way of quite a bit since then, with Meloni making the change to his personal spinoff, which is streaming with a Peacock subscription. To point out simply how a lot they’ve been by way of, the actors have been requested by NBC to name their first strains ever on SVU, and it makes me love them much more:
The truth that they have been each in a position to keep in mind their first strains spoken after 26 years is fairly spectacular. In fact, it may be assumed they’ve watched the pilot quite a lot of occasions over time, however filming one thing that finally modified your life is totally different. It’s not shocking that they have been in a position to keep in mind their strains because it’s in all probability caught with them, however it’s enjoyable to see their reactions to it and seeing that they have been proper.
There’s additionally the truth that Hargitay and Meloni keep in mind the precise setup and different strains within the scene, and it’s making me need to return and rewatch the primary episode. Moreover, I like that Hargitay’s first line on SVU was actually “Olivia Benson.” It simply foreshadowed how iconic she would grow to be and the way iconic she nonetheless is in any case these years. Again then, they in all probability by no means knew that nearly 30 years later, they’d nonetheless be taking part in the identical characters and grow to be two of the longest-running actors within the Legislation & Order franchise, and it is loopy to consider.
It helps that Hargitay and Meloni had on the spot chemistry after they have been auditioning for SVU, which is an efficient factor. There’s a chance that SVU wouldn’t have gone so long as it had if Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler have been performed by totally different actors. Fortunately, followers gained’t must think about that and can have the ability to sit up for hopefully extra Bensler scenes within the new season of SVU and plenty of extra memorable strains.
There gained’t be an excessive amount of of a look forward to Legislation & Order: SVU Season 27. It’s set to premiere on Thursday, September 25 at 9 p.m. ET on NBC, following the Season 25 premiere of Legislation & Order. Season 5 of Legislation & Order: Organized Crime will probably be airing after SVU, bringing the spinoff again to the community after shifting to Peacock for Season 5, which means that Legislation & Order Thursdays are coming again this fall on NBC.