When & How to Watch Law & Order: SVU and Organized Crime Season Finale

The current seasons of Law & Order: SVU and Organized Crime are approaching their conclusions, and synopses for their final episodes have already been released.

Here's a quick summary of when and how you can watch their final episodes and what you can expect to see in them.

Law & Order: SVU Season 24 Finale

The finale of SVU's Season 24 airs on Thursday, May 18 at 9 p.m. on NBC. Hulu, fuboTV, USA Network, and DIRECTV offer live access to NBC streaming (by the way, all of these services have free trial periods). NBC's own streaming service, Peacock, makes new episodes available on-demand one day later.

In the last episode, titled 'All Pain is One Malady,' Benson and Stabler will join forces to fight a revenge-for-hire crime ring that has spread across the globe. Fin and Bruno will be helping a rape victim who was assaulted a second time, while Jet's plan to hack the dark web is going to backfire badly.

Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 3 Finale

The finale of Organized Crime Season 3 airs on NBC the same day, Thursday May 18, right after the final episode of SVU, at 10 p.m. The streaming options are the same — you can watch it on Hulu, fuboTV, USA Network, and DIRECTV.

The season's last episode, titled 'With Many Names,' will show with the U.S. Attorney benching Stabler and Benson just as OCCB and SVU close in on a truly dangerous suspect. At the same time, Bell and Fin must lead the team on a perilous task, while Rollins confronts a witness who refuses to cooperate.

As you see, both episodes include major crossovers between SVU and Organized Crime. This is not surprising, given how popular the Benson/Stabler duo was before Christopher Meloni quit SVU and eventually got his own series. That's why fans are so excited to see them team up once again — twice, if you watch both series.

Fortunately, the seasons' finales don't mean the series are coming to an end, as both shows have been renewed, and their subsequent seasons will air on NBC this fall.

However, while SVU has been renewed for a full season, Organized Crime received only a half-season renewal, most likely because of the behind-the-scenes turbulence the show has faced throughout its short run.

Organized Crime's creators claim that a 13-episode season is the best match for their current plot ideas, but this might be a case of sour grapes. We'll have to wait and see whether Season 4 is really going to be structured differently.