Regulation & Order: SVU’s Olivia Benson is headed to the Regulation & Order season finale.
Showrunner Rick Eid has confirmed to TVLine that Mariska Hargitay is about to look because the beloved captain within the Might 19 episode (NBC, 8/7c).
Though not a real crossover, the season ender will probably be an “emotional finale” that entails the taking pictures of an off-duty police officer who additionally occurs to be a good friend of Detective Cosgrove (Jeffrey Donovan).
However don’t anticipate to see every other Regulation & Order alumni this season exterior of Carey Lowell, who returned as prosecutor Jamie Ross within the premiere. In line with Eid, there received’t be different cameos in Season 21, however “I’m certain subsequent 12 months you’ll see some.” (Notice: The collection has not but been renewed by NBC.)
For the Regulation & Order boss, who beforehand served as showrunner on CBS’ FBI and NBC’s Chicago P.D. — additionally Dick Wolf procedurals — taking the reins on Wolf’s flagship collection was nerve-wracking, given what the present means to so many individuals.
“The factor that’s struck me essentially the most is simply how many individuals revere the present. I believe that has put numerous stress on me and numerous different individuals to attempt our hardest to deliver again a present that so beloved,” he shares. “Understanding that there are going to be so many comparisons to this iconic present was arduous and is arduous and makes us work actually arduous as a result of we take it very critically and we need to reside as much as the present’s requirements.”
With Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) as an essential a part of the revival, numerous thought went into how the fan-favorite character thinks in as we speak’s world.
“It’s been actually fascinating making an attempt to think about the place Jack McCoy is as we speak as a prosecutor and as a district lawyer,” he explains. “12 years later, lots has modified on the planet… in society, the legislation, the way in which we take into consideration sure issues. So how has he modified? We’ve tried to maintain him evolving, whereas on the identical time, holding him true to who he’s and was.”
And whereas the present hasn’t but been renewed, Eid is hopeful that he’ll get the prospect to do extra with the collection. “I’m enthusiastic about subsequent season. We haven’t formally been picked up, however I’m hopeful that we are going to be,” he notes. “I believe subsequent 12 months, we’ll get a possibility to dig even deeper into the character stuff, which actually excites me.”
