Olivie Blake Reveals Why Gen Z Women Love "Law & Order: SVU" — And It's Not for the Reason You Think Lizz SchumerOctober 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM 0 Michelle Terris;Virginia Sherwood/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Olivie Blake and Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson, Christopher Meloni as Detective Ellio...
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Lizz SchumerOctober 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Olivie Blake explains to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club why she thinks women her age love Law & Order: SVU
The show, whose 27th season premiered on Sept. 25, is one of the longest-running primetime TV shows in history
Watching it together was a central part of Blake's sorority experience, from which she drew to write her latest novel, Girl Dinner
On a recent episode of the Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club podcast, Booktok darling Olivie Blake went deep on all things Girl Dinner, which came out Oct. 21. The book, "a darkly fun novel about power, lust, and eating your fill," follows an elite sorority and its alumni who "practice a sinister new wellness trend," according to its publisher.
Blake shared that her own time as part of a sorority was "one of those complicated things."
"The Greek system as a whole definitely has a racial bias. It definitely has, like, some some gender traps. But at the same time, it shaped me as a woman to be in a space that was only for women," she explained. "And I would I tried to capture those, like, the little things about that experience."
One of those little things was the girls' obsession with one long-running TV show in particular.
"I remember that the TV room was, like, right inside the door, basically. And so you would kind of walk into whatever everybody was watching, and it was almost always Law & Order SVU. "And I find this so interesting now."
The show is one of the longest-running primetime television shows in history, at 27 seasons and counting. For the first 12 years, it was led by iconic duo Detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni). Meloni exited the show in 2011, breaking many fans' hearts, but still makes the occasional guest appearance, and also now stars in his own Law & Order spinoff, Law & Order: Organized Crime.
Blake explains that the reason why young women, in particular, so love the police procedural is for one simple reason.
"I really think it is because the crimes were predominantly against women, and the people who committed them got caught," she says. "And like, in real life, that doesn't happen when men commit sexual crimes against women, nothing happens for the most part."
Of course, the chemistry between the two main detectives didn't hurt, either.
"Like, not only did we want Benson and Stabler to, like, take their clothes off," she explains. "We also were like, oh my god, these women who would not be taken care of in real life are actually seeing some accountability. I think that was part of what the appeal was."
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Blake calls cycling in and out of the TV room where SVU was almost always on "an experience that is so fundamental to the way that I understand womanhood now." And judging by the show's record-breaking run, she's certainly not alone.
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