TVLine s Performers of the Week: Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni TVLine 5 hrs ago
THE PERFORMANCES
| It’s rare that a television event lives up to its hype. But thanks to Meloni and Hargitay, Elliot Stabler’s big return to the
Law & Order universe really did.
We’d certainly missed seeing these two together on our screens. But ahead of the crossover event, we also wondered whether it would be possible for the actors to resume Benson and Stabler’s compelling, complicated relationship after so much time. (After all, Meloni left the series 10 years ago!)
We needn’t have worried. From the first moment that Hargitay and Meloni shared a scene, they were right back in it. Therefore, so were we. The actors always have been able to bring out something special in each other; similarly, Liv and El are vulnerable with each other in a way they rarely are with anyone else. The combination of those two factors, mixed with a highly emotional evening that featured the death of El
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