# Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021)

> A New York City Organized Crime Control Bureau task force led by veteran detective Elliot Stabler works to dismantle the city's most violent illegal enterprises.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/88726

## Facts

- Seasons: 5
- Episodes: 75
- Episode runtime: 42 min
- Status: Canceled
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Dick Wolf, Ilene Chaiken, Matt Olmstead
- Network: NBC, Peacock
- Cast: Christopher Meloni, Danielle Moné Truitt, Tamara Taylor, Ainsley Seiger, Brent Antonello, Dylan McDermott, Rick Gonzalez, Camilla Belle
- TMDB rating: 7.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12677870/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: gritty, tense, serious, weary

## What critics say

Audience reception is positive, with fans praising the return of Christopher Meloni's Elliot Stabler and the gritty organized crime focus, while some find the long-running investigations slow.

## Synopsis

Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021-2025) is a United States crime drama series created by Dick Wolf, Ilene Chaiken and Matt Olmstead for NBC and Peacock, a spin-off of the long-running Law & Order franchise. Christopher Meloni reprises his role as hardened detective Elliot Stabler, who leads a unit of the Organized Crime Control Bureau alongside Sgt. Ayanna Bell (Danielle Moné Truitt) and detectives such as Jet Slootmaekers (Ainsley Seiger) and Bobby Reyes (Rick Gonzalez). Their goal is to dismantle New York City's most vicious illegal enterprises, and the obstacles are layered: informants who lie, rival gangs, and a criminal network that stretches far beyond a single arrest. Across five seasons and seventy-five episodes, the show trades the franchise's classic one-case-per-episode rhythm for investigations that unfold over many episodes. Its tone is gritty and tense, with a weary moral seriousness, and its New York setting feels lived-in and hard-edged. Fans of Law & Order, The Wire and Narcos will find resonance in its procedural grind and its portrait of city crime.

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