If you are not yet excited about Murder: Life on the Street is finally streaming on Peacock, you obviously haven’t seen the show. That’s not your fault, it’s been off streaming platforms for an incredibly long time. But now that’s over.
If you’re not familiar with the gritty crime drama set in Baltimore, you may not know that it’s the making of the classic. Law and Order SVU Character John Munch, played by the late and great Richard Belzer. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me at least spend one more sentence telling you how great this show is and how glad I am to see if it still holds up more than thirty years after it first aired on NBC. OK, so here we are again, back to the aliens.
Yes, you see, Munch, the figure began on killingand made occasional references to his previous life as a homicide detective (get it? That’s the name of the show!) in Baltimore when the character was introduced on October 17, 2012. SVU. This is important because it means it’s the same character and not some weird multiverse thing. This is NBC crime dramas, not the MCU, baby!
… Or maybe not?
It was a circuitous route that took Munch from one show to the next, and he also made a stop at another very well-known show from the 90s on another channel. Yes, friends, I am talking about The X-Files. Belzer portrayed Munch in Season 5, Episode 3, an episode revolving around Lone Gunmen. If you remember, The X-Files has repeatedly shown that there are aliens in his universe. So often that in the end even the skeptic herself, Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), had to admit the existence of aliens after she had been presented with irrefutable proof for about the 200th time.
This crossover episode means that Aliens canon throughout the law and order Universe, including SVU. This also means that, as unlikely as it may be, any day’s episode could be about an alien abduction or a garbage monster that feeds on the psychic energy of babies. Do I believe that could happen? No. But I want to believe it.
Anyone who spends too much time online is probably screaming at their screens right now about the “Tommy Westphall universe,” because all of these shows I mentioned fall into a much broader, expanded universe that actually takes place in a snow globe while Tommy Westphall, an autistic child, watches and imagines stories happening in the snow globe. This is based on the final episode of the hospital drama St. Elsewhere that aired in the 80s, but you already knew that from the description of the whole snow globe thing. (Search your heart; you know it’s true.) That’s because many shows from St. Elsewhere, including killingwhereby a character from the former was examined using the latter.
There are multiple layers to this whole thing, and if you really want to dive down the rabbit hole, you can do that here. This is an entire website dedicated to every show and movie that can be linked to Tommy Westphall. Although some of the “evidence” is much thinner than the direct connection of St. Elsewhere To killing.
For my part, I just want to take it easy. By this I mean that I will continue to write letters to NBC and Peacock urging them to embrace their legacy of John Munch and beging Alien abductions in Law & order Storylines. That is what the people this person wants.
