John Munch is leaving Law & Order: SVU, throwing the Munchiverse into chaos
The television universe just became dangerously unstable with the news that the man at the center of it, Richard Belzer’s Detective John Munch, is retiring. Munch turned in his retirement papers on last night’s episode of Law & Order: SVU, with selfish disregard for both Mariska Hargitay—who’s already suffered the loss of Christopher Meloni, leaving her pretty much down to Ice-T—and the fabrics of the various intertwined TV realities he’s connected ever since his 1993 introduction on Homicide: Life On The Street, everything from The Wire to Arrested Development to The X-Files.