Regulation & Order: SVU Season 26 has completed its run within the 2024 TV schedule, and followers must both try a traditional cable TV marathon or stream with a Peacock subscription for a repair of Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) investigating particularly heinous sexually-based offenses for the remainder of the 12 months. The autumn finale was truthfully my favourite of the season thus far… and likewise the one I could also be least prone to rewatch, due to simply how disturbing it was for Carisi (Peter Scanavino).
Now, every week after that fall finale aired on NBC, I noticed why an episode completely unrelated to Christopher Meloni’s Elliot Stabler had me lacking Regulation & Order: Organized Crime greater than ever.
What Occurred In SVU’s Fall Finale
Should you missed the autumn finale or simply felt so unhealthy for Carisi after his hostage state of affairs that you simply blocked the main points out of your reminiscence, a lot of the episode occurred kind of in actual time. He was caught in a deli together with a handful of hostages and two armed criminals who had been getting more and more unhinged because the police presence grew exterior.
Carisi did his greatest to maintain a deal with on the state of affairs, however issues simply received worse and worse as they found he was once NYPD, one of many hostages was shot, and one other was dragged right into a again room to be assaulted. He needed to stay simply on the opposite facet of the room whereas the girl was being violated, and it is no surprise that he undoubtedly wasn’t advantageous when the ultimate credit rolled for the final episode earlier than the 2025 TV schedule picks up.
Peter Scanavino turned in one in all his greatest efficiency of the collection, when you ask me, and the emotional stakes had been even larger with Kelli Giddish returning as Rollins for the second time in Season 26. All in all, this was a standout episode of SVU and one which 100% didn’t make me consider the await Regulation & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 till every week had handed, and now I’ve related the dots.
Why SVU’s Fall Finale Makes Me Miss Organized Crime Once more
For all that Regulation & Order: Organized Crime is a by-product of SVU, the 2 exhibits are literally fairly completely different, and I do not simply say that as a result of there was a scarcity of crossovers final season till the Season 25 finale. However SVU departed from its personal common format to finish the primary half of Season 26 in late November, principally happening in actual(ish) time throughout Carisi’s hostage state of affairs and with out the standard courtroom drama to wrap every thing up. The format felt extra OC than SVU to me.
And the largest signal that the episode actually did not really feel completely like SVU regardless of Benson and Carisi being on the middle of the motion is that I sort of forgot the autumn finale was an installment within the collection about – to cite the opening narration – “sexually-based offenses” which might be thought of “particularly heinous” and “vicious.” I used to be so engrossed by the hostage story that it actually did not happen to me that an assault was in all probability going to occur till the lead hostage-taker beginning eyeing one of many girls.
Am I proud that I forgot about SVU inevitably together with a intercourse crime, after watching extra episodes of SVU than I care to confess? After all not, however it now makes me suppose that I am simply lacking the non-sexually-based offenses that used to air often on Thursday nights with a special format than the standard Regulation & Order. All of this provides as much as me lacking Regulation & Order: Organized Crime.
Alas, there’s nonetheless no phrase of when precisely Season 5 of OC will premiere with its transfer to Peacock. Manufacturing seemingly started again in August, however the information of John Shiban departing as showrunner got here together with experiences that the brand new season is round midway finished. If Peacock intends to attend till all episodes of the season are prepared earlier than releasing the primary, then it could possibly be some time into the 2025 TV schedule earlier than we decide up on Stabler’s story.
My fingers are at the very least crossed that we get an episode earlier than the top of SVU‘s present season, however solely time will inform. For now, you possibly can stay up for the returns of Regulation & Order and Regulation & Order: SVU on Thursday, January 16 at 8 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. ET, respectively, on NBC. As for Organized Crime… properly, the primary 4 seasons can be found on Peacock because the await Season 5 continues.