LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT Post-Mortem: Peter Scanavino Reflects on Carisi’s ‘Cornered’ Trauma and the Potential Fallout

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Peter Scanavino Reflects on His First Decade with the Series and His Season 26 Hopes

As LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT wraps up its historic 25th season (on Thursday, May 16 at 9/8c), it also marks a personal milestone for series star Peter Scanavino: his tenth season on the show.

“God, personally and professionally, it completely changed my life,” Scanavino, who plays ADA Carisi on the NBC drama, tells Give Me My Remote. “It’s so funny, because I got on the show, when…I’d been married, maybe, a couple of years and we just had a kid. It felt like I was really starting my adult life, in a sense…and [then] the show came. So it’s so interwoven with my life for this past decade. It’s been such a big part of it. But it’s been really incredible and it’s meant so much to me. It’s been such a blessing and a gift, personally and professionally.”

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Peter Scanavino Previews Carisi’s ‘Conflicting Feelings’ About Rollins Consulting with the Squad

The squad deals with a serial rapist who is targeting brides on the Thursday, May 2 episode of LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. And they get a bit of help for the hour with the complex case from Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish), who left the squad in 2022 to become a professor. Read more

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Peter Scanavino Previews Carisi’s Attempt to Get Justice for Maddie

After saving teen Maddie (Allison Elaine) from her prolonged kidnapping experience, the ball is now in Carisi’s (Peter Scanavino) court on the Thursday, April 18 episode of LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, as the ADA tries to bring her kidnapper, George Brouchard (Patrick Carroll), to justice.

Complicating matters? The man who bought Maddie from Brouchard was killed and can’t testify against him. Read more

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Peter Scanavino Picks His Favorite Carisi Moment from 2021

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT’s ADA Carisi (Peter Scanavino) had quite a 2021, trying a number of deeply challenging cases (and twice battling a longtime friend in the courtroom) and finally taking a big step in his romantic life.

But for Scanavino, when looking back at the year, his favorite moment to play for his character was digging into what viewers hadn’t really gotten to witness yet.

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT’s Peter Scanavino on Carisi and Rollins’ ‘Very Serious’ Relationship

Things may not have been going exactly as planned for LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT’s Carisi (Peter Scanavino) on the career front, but they are going decidedly better for him with his personal life.

After years of close friendship (and more than a little pining), former partners Carisi and Rollins (Kelli Giddish) finally decided to move forward with their relationship at Fin’s (Ice T) non-wedding at the end of season 22. Now, the duo are together, but viewers have only seen glimpses of how things have changed.

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT’s Peter Scanavino Previews Carisi’s Battle Against ORGANIZED CRIME’s Wheatley—and Barba

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT’s ADA Carisi (Peter Scanavino) has faced a lot of tough cases over the past few seasons, but he runs into one of his biggest challenges in the L&O crossover event, as he is tasked with trying to convict ORGANIZED CRIME’s Richard Wheatley (Dylan McDermott)—who manged to evade all of the other criminal charges against him, in exchange for cooperating with authorities—for Kathy Stabler’s murder.

“What are you gonna do?” Scanavino laments. “I think Carisi, in this case, realizes it’s a bit of an uphill [battle]. He knows what has happened, what has occurred. But in terms of the evidence that he has, I think he knows it’s kind of sparse, so he’s got to really try to steer the case towards the prosecution as best as he can.”

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Peter Scanavino Reflects on Carisi’s Season 22 Courtroom Arc

As LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT season 22 worked in events from the real world, as well as the return of an original character, the long-running drama also had a pod of episodes focusing primarily on the courtroom element of their storytelling–and focusing on Carisi (Peter Scanavino).

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LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME: Peter Scanavino on the Shadow Trial Gamble, the Shifting Carisi and Stabler Dynamic

When Stabler (Christopher Meloni) brought Carisi (Peter Scanavino) into the LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME world, he had a very specific mission in mind: he needed the ADA to help facilitate a shadow trial for Izak Bekher (Ibrahim Renno). In success, it would allow Izak to remain safe—and be their guy on the inside of Richard Wheatley’s (Dylan McDermott) operations.

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Peter Scanavino on the Complicated Rollisi Dynamic

After LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT’s Rollins (Kelli Giddish) had to rush out of town to take care of her father, she’s back in New York for the Thursday, April 22 episode, “In The Year We All Fell Down”–with Jim (James Morrison) in tow.

However, things take a turn when her father ends up back in the hospital—and she has to lean on her longtime friend/maybe more Carisi (Peter Scanavino).

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT’s Peter Scanavino Teases the ‘Really Big’ Season 22 Finale

It’s a big week for LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT star Peter Scanavino, whose Carisi is a key figure for Rollins (Kelli Giddish) as she takes care of her ailing father on the Thursday, April 22 episode of SVU (at 9/8c), and then jumps to LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME (at 10/9c) to play an important role in Izak’s (Ibrahim Renno) prosecution.

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