Tamara

Mariska 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑. She’s said she’s a comic at heart & with every bit, she was pure Hollywood glam while poking fun at herself, her show, the industry & the spectacle of theater. That was a throwback to entertainment 20-30 - 50! years ago, unserious, over-the-top & 𝑓𝑢𝑛. Maybe she channeled her mother, because that was the good old days of glam showmanship. Keep conquering with that fearlessness, girl.

I hope @Chris_Meloni knows how devastating this is for everyone, knows how much we love the character he created, and how there will never, ever be closure. Nothing the franchise can ever do will fix this. He gave them five years to set it right, gave us so much more of Elliot, and to leave it without his story complete is honestly traumatizing for fans who have waited for 27 years. Traumatizing, and I don’t say that lightly. I’m so grateful we got Elliot, Ayanna and the Stabler crew. We got so much Bernie and backstory - and Elliot’s fans deserved the ending we have grown up waiting for. It’s like that team you grow up rooting for, heartbreak year after year and you believe - EVERY YEAR - that this is your year. To have the team move, 27 years later, through no fault of its own, and never cross that final line? It will be a lifelong regret and ache for fans of Benson & Stabler. It doesn’t sound like it from the tears and tone of Meloni, but I pray to god there’s a sliver of hope he would reprise Elliot before SVU ends, if even for an episode. Everyone deserves that. We are all crushed. This is actual, real-life grief and a hope that dies with the loss of this character. We had faith, and he agreed to come back - gave it his all - and this is mind-numbing.