It’s been practically 4 years since we’ve seen a One Chicago crossover, and greater than 5 years since we’ve had one which spanned all three reveals: Chicago Fireplace, Chicago P.D., and Chicago Med.
Even NBC has tacitly acknowledged that’s too lengthy, and now, we’re simply weeks away from a brand new One Chicago crossover, a January 29 three-hour occasion involving a gasoline explosion at a high-rise.
With pleasure constructing for that three-parter — and with all three reveals returning with new episodes on Wednesday, January 8 — we’re rating the franchise’s prior crossovers, even these together with Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit, by the plausibility of their premises. Verify them out beneath, sorted from most contrived to most credible.
One Chicago Crossover, Wednesday, January 29, 8/7c, NBC