The fly-by-night production of Organized Crime continues to bother me. It takes them nine to ten days to shoot a single episode, roughly the same amount of time for post-production (longer if the episode has special effects) and they've been on production hiatus for a while. They still have twelve more episodes to crank out before the May finale, though we know the February 24 episode is at least partially in the can because there's been a 15-second promo for it. But they're still racing against time.
Although, I suppose that isn't anything particularly new for Law & Order. NBC canceled Vanilla literally ten days before the airing of the season 20 finale, Rubber Room, which was in the middle of editing and other post-production. So Rene Balcer and company literally had no time to re-shoot, re-edit or re-structure the episode to make it a proper series finale. It's a miracle that it turned out as well as a series finale as it did, honestly (although I've always had a hunch that, despite Dick Wolf claiming NBC had promised him a shortened season 21 that would have led directly into the launch of L&O: Los Angeles, he had told Balcer to write a season finale that would have worked as a series-ender).
