I don't know exactly when or how I started watching "Law & Order: Organized Crime." In a way, it feels like I've always been watching “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” but the truth is that it probably just started autoplaying after I (shamefully, shamefully) finished up the 26th season of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," of which "Organized Crime" is a spinoff.
Earlier this summer, I met someone whose full-time job involves some kind of production on the show. When I responded enthusiastically and told him that I was actually a couple seasons in, he said I was the first person he'd met who had ever actually watched it. Then, I swear to God, we high-fived.
So, for the uninitiated—which is, I guess, basically everyone—here's what's up with "Law & Order: Organized Crime," now a Peacock streaming exclusive. Overall, it's probably one of the worst television shows I have ever seen: tonally disjointed, narratively scattered, incapable of standing on its own two feet without frequent cameos from other "Law & Order" franchise characters.
Obviously, I'm hooked. I expect that by the end of this calendar year, I will have watched every episode of its five seasons.