Law & Order: SVU changed things up in Season 22 by bringing back Elliot Stabler and swiftly launching the Law & Order: Organized Crime spinoff.
The two shows had some obvious similarities, but also enough differences that I think there are some lessons that they could learn from each other with SVU heading into Season 23 and Organized Crime looking ahead to Season 2.
The SVU backdoor pilot followed by the Organized Crime series premiere delivered some killer ratings for NBC, and it quickly became clear that fans are still invested Mariska Hargitay’s Benson and Christopher Meloni’s Stabler despite all the years apart.