The 25 Best Episodes of ‘Law & Order: SVU’

Ghosts

A pivotal episode reveals secrets among the spirits when the “livings” (Rose McIver‘s Sam and Utkarsh Ambudkar‘s Jay) leave them alone for the weekend. The shocking revelation has the ghosts wishing for a “living” human intervention—too bad ghosts don’t show up on FaceTime.

8:30/7:30c

Elsbeth

Carrie Preston serves up another winner in a tennis-themed episode. This week’s special guest star: Blair Underwood as a rising pro tennis star’s demanding father and coach, whose sabotage of a star player goes sideways when he drops dead on the court.

10/9c

Star Trek: Discovery

The best and most exciting episode to date in the final season is also a payoff for longtime fans, when Captain Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and her gruff new first officer Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie) get trapped in a loop of temporal jumps.

Conan O’Brien Must Go

Series Premiere

Conan O’Brien travels the world, soaking up exotic cultures while meeting far-flung fans. The first stop on his four-episode travelogue is Norway, where “fueled by a bottomless hunger for recognition” (says a narrator), Conan has a blast freestyling with a mousy rapper he met online.

Orlando Bloom: To the Edge

Series Premiere

The adventurous Lord of the Rings movie star pushes his physical and spiritual limits in a three-part docuseries that shows him tackling the extreme sports of wingsuiting, free diving, and rock climbing.