It has been almost a year since “Law and Order: Organized Crime” last broadcasted the radio wave, but the rewards of being late are better than nothing.
Law and Order: SVU’s Stabler-centric spin-off hasn’t received well-deserved love on NBC, so hope Peacock will treat it better. The arrival of ten new episodes was exciting to me.
At this point, I created the Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Wishlist. Peacock has no content restrictions on Internet TV.
First, a quick reminder of where we left
Almost a year since the end of Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 4. If you forget most of what happened, that’s understandable.
This big cliff everyone involves Stabler’s willful little brother Joe Jr.
Joe is trapped in illegal activities due to heroin addiction.
Long story short, he was caught, turned into an informant and tried to help Stabler and his team beat the drug Kingpin Julian Emery.
Unfortunately, while the team was able to get bodyguards and some other infantry, Emery took off the unknown parts…and Joe boarded the plane and handcuffed it, presumably a briefcase with chemical weapons inside.
The bet cannot be higher. Emery was suspicious of Joe first, putting Joe in a dangerous position, and now Stabler’s team interfered with Emery’s original plan.
Most notably, they recovered the nerve agent Emery hoped to create chaos on the ground while busy escaping—but he owned another set of chemical weapons, and Joe is now attached to it.
Joe is obviously more hostage than the crime score at this point, but that’s what anyone guesses.
Christopher Meloni called it “hard” in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, which tells me it’s an understatement.
Meanwhile, Stabler’s family life is a mess. Law and Order: Season 4 Episode 13: He realizes that he is the last person to know that his son and girlfriend are pregnant.
These cliffs guarantee one thing about our law and order: Organized Crime Season 5 Wishlist Will Be Founded
The top of my Law & Order list is one thing: One thing in Organized Crime Season 5 is the front and center of family things.
It doesn’t have to be more important than the case Stabler pursues, but it has to be equally important.
Look, I’ve lost my blue blood, and it sounds strange, Law & Order: Organized Crime is the closest thing to it.
Organized crime is more tenacious and violent, but it is the only crime drama that makes the family so important – at least sometimes.
Thanks to the never-ending game of music performers, the range of the series is central from the family, everyone moved away, so Stabler didn’t interact with them and returned again.
But with Joe falling into trouble and Eli just put the bombshell on his father, the Stabler family must be a big part of the latest season.
Eli also decided to follow Stabler’s footsteps and become a policeman, who warned him against.
I find Stabler exhausted, but I am not against law and order: Organized crime becomes a dark version of blue blood, and police work requires new recruits to embrace corruption in order to succeed.
Stabler has knocked down a police group like this, and my wish list includes more stories like this.
I love stories about heroes fighting corruption and powerful institutions, and it would be even more fascinating if Ellie decided to include him in the middle of all of them.
Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Needs Total Acceptance of Its Original Concept
The show never really fits in the cycle format that is part of the legal and order brand, and it’s a disaster every time you try it.
If one thing has to happen, it is acceptance.
Organized crime cases are complex and chaotic. Shows should not lower them to a 45-minute one-and-all format.
They usually involve people at the top, they do everything they can to cover up their tracks and leave the bottom line of the bag when it is unscathed.
Extreme violence is also part of the deal. If someone opens the person, then the damn thing will collapse, so the leaders of the criminal organization must make it clear that the opposition means starting a war that you can’t win.
Law and Order: Organized Crime understands this in the early seasons. Stabler and Company start at the bottom and work hard to capture the bad guys, secret actions of action southward and as much violence as they escape on online TV.
People don’t like long arcs, some don’t like violence, but that doesn’t matter.
Law and Order: Organized Crime is trying to market to others who like the franchise, which is not their target audience.
Instead, now they are streaming, they are free to market themselves correctly.
The show has more in common with Wire than with the Law and Order franchise (besides Richard Belzer’s Munch, both involved in Wire, Law and Order: SVU). It needs to act like this.
This means bringing back a long arc and taking advantage of loose restrictions on streaming platforms to become more tenacious and violent than before.
Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Need to Bring Reggie Back
I’m not a big fan of Undercover Operations in Season 2 of Law & Order: Organized Crime. Starr has defeated the Whitley organization for himself – the Albanian thugs don’t know who they are.
It’s a weak story in a weak season, but Reggie’s character stands out.
He has formed a friendship with Stabler’s Alter Ego, and it seems that higher measures in the mob have made him manipulate him more than the real evil.
More importantly, when the Albanian mob arc ended, Reggie escaped. He carried out witness protection and got the last scene in his new city.
Why did the Earth encounter all these troubles without ever letting him pop up?
It’s obvious that the writer intends to leave Reggie in the back pocket so he can use him again when the time is right.
I said it’s time now.
It’s been three years, but the mob in Albania cannot disappear because Stabler knocked down John Kosta.
It may still be powerful, and discovering and killing traitors who help expose them may be one of its priorities.
There is a new Reggie story that is my wish list. Some things should drive him to hide and force Stabler to estimate this part of his past.
Sorry, but Benson and Stabler’s Romance isn’t the Top of My Law & Order: Wishlist for Organized Crime Season 5
I know, I know. Some people only watch organized crime in Benson and Starble’s relationship.
But that’s the thing.
If this series will be as tough and realistic as I need it, then the romance of Benson and Stabler won’t really work.
Stabler will work hard in extremely dangerous situations. Most of the time he won’t be available, and he’s worried that being with Benson would just put his target on her back wouldn’t be paranoid.
Richard Wheatley has happened. The next mob boss might be worse.
Please note that I’m not saying that these two should never cross the road.
SVU brought Benson and Stabler to the edge of romance and then decided to start writing as if they didn’t exist in each other’s world, which annoyed me.
They need to solve this problem.
However, I don’t think romance is their cards for them right now, and that shouldn’t be the focus of the show.
Random Thoughts on Law and Order: Organized Crime Season 5
- I want more jets! Her grief is strong after she loses her whale’s target of investigation, but later on Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 4, she is mostly reduced to a stupid incident with Reyes and aligned with new AI experts. Please resolve this issue.
- OC should explore Bell’s unique position as one of the few black lesbian women in power in the NYPD. She used to have to fight to keep the organized crime bureau open, but we haven’t had internal politics BS for a while.
- I’ve all taken longer arcs if I haven’t made it clear yet, but no longer talk nonsense like Richard Wheatley’s second run. Stabler and Wheatley are trying to excite each other, so I hope the series will never go there again.
What is your Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Wishlist?
I want to hear what you think. What do you want the most? What are you praying that this series doesn’t do?
Click on the comments with your ideas.
Law and Order: Organized Crime will be broadcast only on Peacocks starting April 17.
Peacock will give up two episodes on the premiere night, then every Thursday until it’s finished.
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