He'll probably be the big bad for the final arc of the season. Surprised they didn't do what other TV cop shows do and tell everyone that he's an informant, guaranteeing that a rival will kill him.
He reportedly had multiple health issues, and 78 is still a good run. He retired and went to spend his final years drinking wine and smoking weed in France. Good for him.
Nah. SVU Munch was inferior to Homicide Munch (SVU's people never really knew how to write him). His best line was in the second season of Homicide, when he answered the phone: "Ho-ho-ho-homicide!"
Like I said, not fantastic next to folks who live in relative good health until 85 to 105, but good enough miles on the clock.
I should probably watch more H:LOTS. I haven't seen many episodes of it...I mainly know Munch from SVU. I hope H:LOTS is available on Peacock...
It's not available for streaming anywhere. The prevailing belief is that the music rights (the show, and the movie, used a lot of licensed songs) are what's holding up any streaming release.
I loved him in both SVU & Homicide, but he was criminally underused in SVU, especially into the later years. His promotion to Sergeant offered many opportunities, but he was pushed aside for Benson & Stabler. They set him up as this big baddie and didn't have an exit plan for how to defeat him. I hope that is the last we have seen of Teddy. I was also turned off by their handling of Jet. When she was first kidnapped, she did break character (when she could have said she wears a wig because of x, y or z). Bell seems too wrapped up in her own affairs, even after the Murphy as an informant passed, to realize that Jet is going through some pretty intense PTSD. I wouldn't expect Stabler to see it, even if he is close to her.
Organized Crime feels like it's being written on the fly; they want to have arcs but have absolutely no idea how to connect the dots. It's like they have Z ending defined, but absolutely no clue where the other 25 letters fall.
I'd say that too. Same goes with SVU. Just not a lot of follow through with the eps. OC is still trying to find itself and at times, SVU is meandering.
For the final arc of this season, Stabler is going undercover as his twin brother who is most definitely not a cop. Murphy won't see it coming.
Wouldn't somebody else have to go undercover for a change? Stabler keeps this up, somebody is gonna recognize him. As for Murphy, not only did they pull the "informant" thing right out of their ass, but I suspect he is connected somehow to the corruption which is certainly going on in the higher levels (typified by Deputy Inspector Goldfarb and her ilk). Some of said higher ups may well be on Murphy's payroll. And about Jet: Has her last name been pronounced the same in any two episodes? Seems like it's different every time she says it! FIgures.
They tried both Jet and Whelan and had them both fail pretty spectacularly. Reyes seems to have some skill into it, but like with Benson on SVU, OC seems to believe Stabler is the only one who can do anything.
They should bring back the other detectives from the first two seasons for undercover missions. Even the viewers won't recognize them.