A Stabler-heavy season makes Law & Order: Organized Crime season 6 all the more necessary

While Law & Order: Organized Crime season 5 was certainly a lot of fun, a lot of characters were overshadowed. This makes Law & Order: Organized Crime season 6 all the more necessary.

We’re used to one character taking up a lot of screentime, even when it’s an ensemble cast. With Law & Order: Organized Crime, Elliot Stabler tends to get the most development. We’ve had more of his family introduced, and we see him take charge of most of the cases.

However, the show has done a good job of fleshing out other characters in the past. It’s why Law & Order: Organized Crime season 5 felt a little off as Stabler became centric to every single storyline going. It’s something that a sixth season will need to fix, but that’s only if it happens.

LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME — S5 — Pictured: (l-r) Danielle Moné Truitt as Sgt. Ayanna Bell, Christopher Meloni as Det. Elliot Stabler — (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/PEACOCK)

Law & Order: Organized Crime works best as an ensemble show

From the beginning of Law & Order: Organized Crime, we’ve watched how Stabler and his team work together. There has been focus on individual personalities, and how they can end up coming together despite what could seem initially like a cast.

Stabler is great, and there’s no doubt that many tune in for him. But it’s not just him who makes a show. The team can end up supporting him in the cases, and we get to see Stable as a human man who needs their advice and their research. One person cannot do it all, and there’s a flaw in the writing when it seems like he can.


LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME — Pictured: (l-r) Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler — (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/PEACOCK)

Law & Order: Organized Crime season 6 needs to change the season 5 mistake

Throughout the fifth season, the rest of the team was somewhat sidelined and forgotten about. Stabler took over in every single case, and it got to the point where it was both annoying and unrealistic. It made it feel like there was no need to have the rest of the team, a little like how Velma became unnecessary in Tracker season 2.

So, we do need a Law & Order: Organized Crime season 6. This will help to correct the wrong, delivering more arcs for the supporting cast and reminding us that they are important members of Stabler’s team. Character-specific storylines work, but they need to be managed well and used every so often, especially when a season only has 10 episodes.

If season 6 doesn’t happen, it’s going to leave Law & Order: Organized Crime on a disappointing note. That is unless some of the team members can head into other shows in the Dick Wolf universe.

Law & Order: Organized Crime is available to stream on Peacock.

This article was originally published on precincttv.com as A Stabler-heavy season makes Law & Order: Organized Crime season 6 all the more necessary.