Regulation & Order: SVU is at the moment within the earliest weeks of summer time hiatus within the 2025 TV schedule, however that does not imply it is lacking from NBC’s lineup. The community has already begun airing Season 26 reruns on Thursday nights, which is able to proceed all through the summer time. I stored watching NBC on Might 29 after a brand new episode of the medical drama Transplant, and the rerun occurred to be the winter premiere that put Carisi by way of the wringer and featured Kelli Giddish as a visitor star.
It was a strong episode the primary time round again in January because the follow-up to Carisi’s traumatic expertise at gunpoint, however it additionally hit a little bit otherwise now that I do know two SVU sequence regulars left forward of Season 27 whereas Giddish is coming again full-time.
SVU Is Shedding Two Stars
Again in early Might, Deadline reported that each Juliana Martinez and Octavio Pisano wouldn’t be returning for Season 27 of Regulation & Order: SVU, which would be the first helmed by new showrunner Michele Fazekas. Season 26 was Martinez’s first as Detective Kate Silva, so followers will not have had too lengthy to get used to having Silva within the combine. Pisano, however, has been on board as Detective Joe Velasco since Season 23. He joined within the wake of two divisive solid departures.
Whereas neither Silva nor Velasco had been fairly my favourite characters of SVU, I did get used to having them round, and the unit appeared to seek out its groove by the tip of Season 26. It was additionally good to only have extra detectives in Particular Victims once more, so I used to be bummed when the information of Martinez and Pisano being reduce broke forward of the Season 26 finale. I wasn’t wailing and gnashing my enamel, however I will miss having them round.
Then once more, I contemplate “First Mild” – a.ok.a. the rerun that NBC aired on Might 29 and can also be accessible streaming with a Peacock subscription – to be among the best episodes of Season 26, and “First Mild” was gentle on these two detectives whereas additionally bringing in Kelli Giddish.
Kelli Giddish Is Coming Again
Three years after Rollins was reduce from Regulation & Order: SVU, she is lastly coming again full time! A number of weeks after the information about Octavio Pisano and Juliana Martinez, NBC Insider reported that Kelli Giddish returns to the drama as sequence common for Season 27. The event got here after a number of visitor star appearances, together with one that exposed her promotion to sergeant and command of the NYPD’s Intelligence Unit.
It is not clear on the time of writing simply how Rollins will likely be again within the combine frequently, since she is a sergeant now. Benson is out of detectives with Velasco and Silva’s exits, which might imply that her colleagues in Particular Victims are all officers: Sergeant Tutuola, Sergeant Rollins, and Captain Curry. I in fact don’t desire anyone to be demoted, and Curry technically is not a daily, however how is Rollins going to go from main the Intelligence Unit to rejoining Particular Victims?
Nicely, that is a query I am completely happy to entertain over the subsequent few months, as a result of I am one of many many followers who celebrated the information that Kelli Giddish is lastly coming again. Her exit was arguably the largest since Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler, and he or she’s one of many Regulation & Order franchise actors to look in probably the most episodes.
SVU possible will not be again for Season 27 till mid-September or early October, however you may be a part of me in trying out reruns when NBC airs them on Thursday nights… whether or not or not it is since you had been watching Transplant beforehand. You can even discover all 26 seasons of SVU up to now streaming on Peacock.