And it's really lucky that we've got three shows on the air right now that we can all do that with, I mean that's really cool. Crossover", "We're in prep. She gave the episode three out of five stars. Benson tries to get Teddy to open up about what happened to him by letting him know that another boy is in danger, but he remains silent. Join Forces for "Disturbing" Three-Part Crossover Event", "Mega Buzz: Parenthood's End, More Frozen on Once and Loyalty on Walking Dead", "Law & Order: SVU - Danny Pino on #CrossoverWeek (Interview)", "Chicago PD - Mariska and Jason Love the Story (Interview)", "Law & Order: SVU - Kelli Giddish on #CrossoverWeek (Interview)", "Wednesday Final Ratings: 'Modern Family' Adjusted Up; 'The 100' Adjusted Down", "Law & Order SVU Season 16 Episode 7 Review: Chicago Crossover", Chicago P.D. "[6] Mariska Hargitay was excited when she got the script, "For me reading the Chicago PD script, I was very, very excited about it. [40][41], "Invasion!" His portrayal of the fragile victim, and victimizer, was equal parts cringe worthy and heat wrenching, a combination that is incredibly difficult to pull off. In the crossover, Barry Allen recruits Kara Danvers / Supergirl from Earth-38 to Earth-1 to help his team, Oliver Queen and his team, and the Legends to defeat the alien race known as the Dominators. [28], The episodes, the rest of Legends of Tomorrow's second season, The Flash's third season and Arrow's fifth season were released separately on Blu-ray and DVD in Region 1 on August 15, 2017,[35] September 5[36] and September 19, respectively. All episode titles in Season 6 are named after 90’s songs. The Fire Department turn the case over to the Chicago Police, who take on the initial investigation that leads them to Manhattan, where the detectives from Chicago P.D. Voight later shows up at SVU and immediately bursts into the interrogation room, where Amaro and Rollins are trying to question Turner. "Chicago Crossover" was seen by 10.01 million viewers making the second most viewed program of the night on NBC and the second ranked program in the time slot. If this isn't the best episode in Arrow's history, it's damn close. [59] Alasdair Wilkins of The A.V. was a "proverbial mixed bag". This episode marks the first episode to credit Dick Wolf as a writer since the 100th episode of SVU, "Control", back in the fifth season. The episode improved 40 and 36 percent in viewership and the 18–49 rating, respectively, on the previous episode, "Killer Frost". Felicity, Curtis Holt, and Cisco try to hack into the Dominators' mainframe. They take her back to SVU, where the detectives put her in an interrogation room with Teddy and a live feed of Henry. “There are two very different types of fireworks that we could be talking about," SVU's Leight started. "The most unexpected and rewarding development in filming the crossover episodes was seeing how close the actors from the different shows became," says CPD's Olmstead, "Between set-ups they stuck together as a group and they socialized after wrap. "[12], Matt Carter of cartermatt.com gave the episode a "B+" rating, commenting "This story was about chasing a criminal ring doing unspeakable things to New York City, and there were a number of memorable moments that we saw throughout this. He called the final battle "anticlimactic", noting it would have been more satisfying if there was a "more creative use of all the different powers in this group working together, and... a stronger sense of collaboration among the human/metahuman fighters. Aided by Barry and Kara, they recover a device to locate the captives, who are rescued by Nate Heywood in the Legends' timeship, the Waverider. [19] The following month, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow creator and executive producer Marc Guggenheim said that the title of each episode of the crossover would be "Invasion!". It was a tall order, but the episode pulled it off. Voight threatens Turner, causing Benson to intervene; she threatens to have Voight arrested if he touches Turner again. Club's Scott Von Doviak gave the episode a B+, calling the episode an "absurdly overstuff kickoff" to "Invasion!" First, definition: Fanfiction is when someone takes either the story or characters (or both) of a certain piece of work, whether it be a novel, tv show, movie, etc, and create their own story based on it. Meanwhile, Detectives Amaro and Fin Tutuola (Ice-T) arrest two others that seem to be involved. Narsimha Chintaluri of TV Fanatic said in a positive review, "It was a bold, and probably complicated, move to tie these three shows together, but the premise definitely delivered a strong episode of SVU." Parts 4 and 5 of Crisis on Infinite Earths, which will wrap up this epic crossover, will air Tuesday, Jan. 14. Freak! Gross took issue to how the crossover was promoted as "a massive adventure" when it turned out to be "rather underwhelming. He tries to run from them, and in the ensuing struggle Lindsay is injured by a passing bicyclist and hospitalized. Benson and Voight try to lean on Clinton, who asks for full immunity before he divulges anything. [66], Barry and Cisco both appear at the end of the. But if there was one subplot that felt unnecessary and out of place, it was Wally's", calling it "forced". [23][24] They were filmed concurrently, with some cast members shooting scenes for several series each day. artist Todd McFarlane's interpretation of the characters. Our episode is stand alone yet the baton passes and there are enough unresolved parts for PD to get another hour out of it. That makes sense considering that’s the era Bonnie and Damon got trapped in. Pino called the crossover "a Dick Wolf universe, colliding. Each of the main three episodes were titled "Invasion!". The team manage to destroy the bomb and force the Dominators to retreat with a pain-inflicting nano-weapon. Filming was done at the Boundary Bay Airport. [46] The Flash episode had a season-three-high viewership (the series' largest since December 9, 2014) and a season-three-high 18–49 rating, the highest since February 16, 2016. This is really the first time Berlanti and Co. can tell a cohesive story, and it seems like it's paying off." Prior to that, Mastrogiorgio has worked with SVU show runner Warren Leight, guest starring on Law & Order: CI as a murderous drug lord named Testarossa in the episode "Purgatory". Benson (Hargitay) and Voight (Beghe), "They butted heads, they worked things out, and they made things happen, all in the name of protecting their respective turfs and solving the case. "[52], Entertainment Weekly's Shirley Li gave the episode a B+, as "it didn't feel at all like a Legends of Tomorrow episode, despite all the quips from Mick and the blue chyron and the time traveling"; she said that it was more like a second Flash episode. Schedeen continued, "Everyone had their moment to shine, even more minor players like Felicity and Thea. It made production very difficult and it meant our next [SVU] episode had to be a legal one to allow for scheduling. He enjoyed the final back story of the Dominators, which gave them clearer motivations so they no longer felt like "a completely faceless, generic alien threat", and Cisco's creation of a device for Supergirl to travel between universes, which would allow for more frequent crossovers between the characters. Part of that is creative—it would have been better to get a fuller understanding of who these beings really are and how they're able to know the long-term effects of Flashpoint; plus the resolution seems awfully pat ... and lacks the resolutionary scope that was expected." [9] SVU cast members Hargitay, Pino, and Giddish shot the CPD conclusion episode starting October 22 in Chicago. "[8], The shooting of the SVU episode "Chicago Crossover" began on October 9, 2014 in New York City. was the Right Story for CW Crossover", "Supergirl, Flash, Arrow, Legends' 'Heroes v. 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Guggenheim said that Zoic Studios had to rotoscope them from older episodes noting "It was hard, obviously because they had to work with preexisting footage. The CFD then turned this evidence over to the Chicago police. Club gave Arrow an A, stating that while "Invasion!" [11], The crossover in its entirety got extremely positive reviews from both critics and fans alike, praising how the shows were meshed together to make the three-hour crossover along with praising the cast and crew members of the shows as well. When she awakes, Voight is at her bedside, vowing to help Teddy and telling her to go back to Chicago. 's cast would be guest starring in the SVU hour; Sophia Bush (portraying Detective Erin Lindsay), Jesse Lee Soffer (portraying Detective Jay Halstead), and Jason Beghe (portraying Sergeant Henry "Hank" Voight). The detectives soon learn that Clinton is somewhere on Staten Island, and Benson and Voight rescue Henry and arrest Clinton. 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