Law & Order is back, and the week is almost dun-dun
Plus: The return of a few broadcast dramas and the debut of Peacock’s Take Note
TV Lists Law & Order
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, February 23. All times are Eastern.
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Law & Order (NBC, 8 p.m., season 21 premiere): Law & Order is back. After all those reruns, spin-offs, and so on, it turns out the show was merely on a hiatus. Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) leaves the sunniness of Grace And Frankie to sit in the dark wood paneling of the District Attorney’s office once more. Anthony Anderson reprises his role along with Waterston, and you can probably count on other L&O alums to make an appearance. Hugh Dancy stars as ADA Nathan Price, so perhaps there will be a Hannibal crossover? With this show back, honestly anything can happen. Stephen Robinson will recap the first episode of the 21st season, which is called “The Right Thing.”
Regular coverage
Peacemaker’s gone for the season, but we’ll always have this:
Wild cards
Take Note (Peacock, 3:01 a.m.): Centering on a teen who competes in a singing competition, Take Note stars Braelyn Rankins from Doom Patrol as well as alums of everything from Dreamgirls and Sister Act (Aadin Church) to Overlord And the Underwoods (Jordan Richards).
Legacies (CW, 9 p.m.): The fantasy school show (a spin-off of The Originals) returns. If you want to watch another fantasy school show, there’s also The Magicians (streaming on Netflix). For more of the similar off-the-wall magic and less school, check out Shadow & Bone (Netflix). For a more D&D focused show, try Vox Machina (Amazon Prime). For the exact opposite of this show, try Severance (Apple+).
Station 19 (ABC, 8 p.m.): This firefighter drama is also back. For a similar show, try Chicago Fire (Hulu). For less cops, try Rescue Me (Hulu, Prime). For more gay sex, try Sirens (Hulu).
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 9 p.m.): The 18th season is still going! For a more wartorn medical comedy, try M*A*S*H* (Hulu). For more diagnostic jokes, try House (Netflix). For more Chicago, try Chicago Med (Hulu).
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God im of two completely different minds when it comes to the original Law & Order. That show was my favorite show ever growing up. I would watch it early in the morning before school and I would inevitably catch some run of episodes when I got home in the afternoon, because they always seemed to fill a block of like 4 hours with it, especially TNT in the mid to late 00s. When I think “Detectives” an image of Lenny Briscoe and Ed Greene pop into my head. But god, this last decade or so…. I just dont know how to feel about any show where cops are the good guys. Even Brooklyn Nine Nine I had trouble coming to terms with. I know post-911 Law & Order went really hard right winged (didnt help that apparently jackass Fred Thompson demanded it be so, god even back then I knew what an ass he was), but it did seem to start swinging back more in the later seasons when Jack became DA again.
I’m going to watch it, but hell, its making me do more thinking than a tv show should.
If it helps any, the premiere definitely did not paint at least half of the two person cop team in a good light. Almost comically so, lol.
Camryn Manheim? Really? I must have missed that. Well, it’s been a number of years since she grated on my every last nerve, I’ll give it a shot I guess.
That’s your problem with this show? Camryn Manheim? Not the glorification of cops’ constant violations of civil liberties?
I mean, I haven’t seen it yet? I fully expect that I will have a fine time hate watching as usual though. This is the only Wolf show I’ve ever watched, so I don’t really have the years of visceral hatred built up like folks who have seen more of his universe.
Oh I see the problem. She’s from New Jersey. Proceed.
She was pretty good on Stumptown. Still bummed that one got canceled.
I don’t watch L&O but she was great on The Practice, you philistine.
So confusing that there’s a Station 11 and a Station 19. Do we eventually get stations 12-18?