September 25 is a big day for Legislation & Order and its followers, as that is when the 2025 TV schedule will usher in Season 25 of the beloved crime procedural. With over 500 episodes beneath its belt throughout 35 years (the L&O pilot aired approach again in 1990), these ripped-from-the-headlines tales of affection, loss, deceit, homicide, and mayhem have definitely given viewers heaps to stay up for week after week. However, the person behind the far-reaching franchise, Dick Wolf, lately admitted that the “excellent” episode of the drama has but to occur.
What Does Dick Wolf Assume Will Make The Excellent Legislation & Order Episode?
When Legislation & Order debuted so a few years in the past, I don’t actually suppose anybody, even Dick Wolf, may have predicted how the collection would go on to vary tv. Not solely did the unique turn into one of many longest-running scripted dramas, but it surely additionally led to not simply the wide-ranging L&O franchise, however a complete Wolf TV Universe that features One Chicago and a (lately lowered) variety of FBI exhibits.
When speaking concerning the drama that began all of it with the Los Angeles Occasions, Wolf revealed that whereas it (by some means) hasn’t occurred but, he does imagine that there’s a “excellent” L&O episode followers have but to expertise. When speaking about how the writing on his exhibits have led to their longevity, he stated:
As soon as once more, the explanation we’re nonetheless right here is due to the writing. We’re not lecturing, we’re not educating. The proper Legislation & Order episode has not been carried out but, and I push for it yearly. It might be the place all six of the regulars have totally different factors of view on the identical situation, and as you hearken to them, you notice each one in every of them is true.
Now, that is an intriguing thought. As a lot because the solid of characters has all the time included quite a lot of cops and district attorneys at various ranges, they do all are likely to principally agree on the correct and mistaken of the instances they’re collaborating on, in addition to the motives and actions of suspects/criminals.
Whereas there have all the time been actual life points that trigger all of us actual of us to stay in undefined and generally icky grey areas of morality, Wolf’s franchise has probably largely caught to the attorneys and detectives in his franchise agreeing on issues to make it simpler to craft tales. However, as he additionally factors out, one of many issues that retains the collection sturdy is what a lot of the episodes find yourself being about when all of the murky points are boiled down:
The essential underlying precept — and everybody on the exhibits know this — is that you could forgive in writing nearly something, however not homicide…It’s a unending story. Folks won’t cease killing one another in new and distinctive methods. I by no means fear about working out of tales.
Whereas he didn’t reveal why he thinks his “excellent” episode thought all the time will get shot down, I do admire his honesty in opening up about how he butters his crime-drama bread (in addition to that of the L&O franchise’s many, many workers). It’s uncertain that we’ll see his imaginative and prescient come to fruition any time quickly, however each time it does occur, it’ll be an episode for the document books.