‘Law & Order: SVU’ season 18 wishlist: New cases, more Barba, stability
We have now made it to the end of “Law & Order: SVU” season 17, and now, the next phase of the year-long cycle begins: Waiting. Season 18 will not premiere until the fall, and with that, we’re left to do little other than speculate about the future of the show.
Below, we’ve cultivated a few simple suggestions regarding how the series can move into the Rick Eid era, capture what Warren Leight did so well, and prepare for what could be many more great seasons on the air.
1. A new squad member – With Mike Dodds gone, it feels like we need at least one more permanent member of the team. This is especially true since Carisi could eventually move on to law if he wanted. We don’t like to specify a particular kind of person, mostly since that really doesn’t matter too much to us so long as they are someone intriguing and have a backstory that helps them to stand out from the crowd.
2. Stable relationships – Whether it is Benson and Tucker or someone else, wouldn’t it be nice to have someone have their personal life together for a little bit? It’d give the show some more fascinating layers to work with, since we’ve already seen instability played out many times.
3. More Barba and Fin – The latter had a good arc in the finale, but effectively disappeared at times before then. Fin always needs something more to do, especially since he’s been a key cog in the show for such a long time.
4. Different cases – The show already does a good job mixing things up, and showing the complexities and layers behind some of these horrific crimes. Don’t shy away from continuing to act tough questions or get complacent. Relevancy is one of the reasons “SVU” has had a long life in the first place.
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danny
July 8, 2016 @ 1:56 am
Yes need more of Fin , I just Wish Stephanie march can return as the promoted Bureau chief ADA of SVU promoted Williams dodds to Chief of Detectives and after Benson out come give her time to still recover and take the Capital exam and be promoted to Capital Olivia Benson in episode 5 ad least .Now that Capital Tucker is leaving IAB for a twist since Chris Meoni is not returning as of right now bring back Brian Cassidy as the IAB Sgt. and promoted Fin to sgt of svu
Michael Goldman
May 29, 2016 @ 2:12 am
What this show also needs: 1) LOTS more Kelli Giddish (Det. Amanda Rollins) IF there is ever going to be any hope of this show continuing WITHOUT Mariska Hargitay, Giddish has to become a big focal point of the show. Yes, She missed a bunch of episodes when she was pregnant with Baby LUDO, but She’s back now. if NBC has already decided that when Mariska has enough, they will also, then it can continue to be the Mariska Hargitay show. 2) Stop cutting ICE-T out of 6-8 episodes every season. He is important. 3) After killing off the Dodds character(which was stupid and better not have been about money) Go get Adam Beach back if he’s available. Yes, he was arrested for murder at the end of season 12, but maybe he was found not guilty. Adam and ICE-T had incredible chemistry when they did episodes together. 4) End this debacle between Amanda Rollins and her evil sister Kim once and for all. Put Kim away for life or have Amanda(or ICE-T) shoot her and kill her once and for all. She turns Amanda into a puddle of stupidity.