[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the Law & Order: Svu Season 23 finale “A Final Call at Forlini’s Bar.”] Law & Order: Svu bookends its Season 23 finale with conversations that directly address Captain Olivia Benson’s (Mariska Hargitay) personal life, specifically her relationship with her former partner, Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) — and something that is very unresolved with Rafael Barba (Raúl Esparza). The episode began with Benson in a session with her therapist, Dr. Lindstrom (Bill Irwin), who brought up her coworkers’ stable relationships and her lack of one. “I think you and Elliot either need to see whether there’s more there or move on,” he told her. “This idealized relationship is hanging over you, prevents you from true intimacy, Olivia, either with him or with anyone else.” And while there have been hints that Benson and Stabler could cross that line over the years and especially since he reappeared in her life with the ...
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