Law & Order: SVU or Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American television series. The show airs on NBC and created by Dick Wolf. This series is in addition to the decade-old Law & Order franchise. The series is based on crimes happening in the city of New York. A fictionalized New York Police Department and its investigating officers solve them by all the hard work. What is all makes the show more interesting? Let’s see!
The plot of Law & Order: SVU
This series revolves around the SVU unit diving into the dark crimes of sexual abuse including rape, pedophilia, and domestic violence. The unit also investigates special attention cases, for instance, child abuse, elderly abuse, and crimes against differently-abled people. The officers work in the District Attorney’s office to get justice for the SVU’s victim.
Moreover, we see the SVU’s unit fighting with their emotions and not let the crimes affect their lives. Some of the episodes take real-life crimes that are obliterated from the headlines.
The cast of Law & Order: SVU
The series stars Mariska Hargitay and then Captain Olivia Benson the commanding officer of the SVU of the New York Police Department. The show also focuses on the pairing of detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson and John Munch and Brain Cassidy.
Season and Episodes
The SVU series is the second series in addition to the original Law & Order franchise. Season 1of the series was first aired on September 20, 1999. The series has 21 seasons making it the longest of the rest of the Law & Order franchise.
In December 2019 Law & Order: SVU became the longest-running primetime U.S live-action series in the history of television. This is just crazy!
The recent season 22 of the series was released on 12 November 2020 on NBC. The recent episodes show a high voltage action-drama when the officers deal with increasing cases of domestic violence as the city is in shut down because of the pandemic.