Warning: spoilers are forward for the sixth episode of FBI Season 8 on CBS, referred to as “Parental” and accessible streaming subsequent day with a Paramount+ subscription.
CBS’ FBI has technically been a part of the linked Dick Wolf TV universe going again to its second season, however the present Season 8 is doing simply high quality within the 2025 TV schedule with out weekly ties to the NBC’s One Chicago and Legislation & Order sides of the Wolf world. Nonetheless, when “Parental” included the point out of “Hudson College” in New York Metropolis, I needed to flash over to Legislation & Order: SVU recurrently that includes a fictional faculty of the identical identify.
That is to not say that FBI‘s Hudson College is identical as SVU‘s Hudson College, which is fairly excellent news for any undergrads within the FBI-verse’s model of New York Metropolis. The varsity admittedly wasn’t as central to the storyline of “Parental” because it was to a Jubal-centric episode of Season 7, however this is what went down within the newest episode.
What Occurred At Hudson College In “Parental”
A girl by the identify of Mimi Werrick was a homicide suspect within the newest episode, however the group found that she was a seamless schooling pupil at – the place else? – Hudson College, and her telephone location confirmed that she’d been on campus somewhat than committing murders throughout the town. In truth, she was a sufferer herself, having her toddler stolen from her and being informed that the kid had died when she’d actually been offered and adopted out to a different household.
Mimi wasn’t the killer that Maggie and OA have been in search of, however she did ship them in the proper route. I additionally simply obtained a kick out of her attendance at Hudson College really working as an alibi, which usually is not the case when Hudson is concerned on Legislation & Order and SVU. The issues that occur on SVU‘s Hudson campus are fairly solely dangerous.
FBI’s Hudson Is not Legislation & Order’s Hudson
There is a motive why Maggie and OA did not run into Legislation & Order‘s Lt. Brady or SVU‘s Captain Benson when their investigation briefly included Hudson College, and that’s as a result of the 2 reveals produced by Wolf Leisure do not characteristic the identical faculty regardless of the identify.
That is not a shocker after showrunner Mike Weiss clarified forward of Season 8 that former SVU star Juliana Aidén Martinez could be taking part in “a model new character” as an FBI collection common somewhat reprising her NBC function as Detective Kate Silva. Nonetheless, the FBI nook of the Wolf Leisure franchise has technically existed in the identical TV world as Legislation & Order, due to Chicago P.D.‘s Tracy Spiridakos crossing over as Detective Upton again in 2020 and turning into the hyperlink between all the reveals.
If we’re going by technicalities from half a decade in the past, then technically there ought to solely be one Hudson College. Realistically, nonetheless, the colleges will not be one and the identical, and showrunner Mike Weiss informed CinemaBlend this in no unsure phrases:
There isn’t any crossover from NBC to CBS. There’s a brilliant line between these two universes.
That could be all for the most effective, since there could be some doppelgangers between FBI and Legislation & Order past Juliana Aidén Martinez. Each Jeremy Sisto and Alana De La Garza have been collection regulars with the NYPD on Legislation & Order earlier than switching to taking part in federal brokers on FBI. Crossovers aren’t set to occur as Season 8 continues.
There are nonetheless episodes left to sit up for earlier than FBI goes on its winter break forward of the 2026 TV schedule, although! Preserve tuning in to CBS on Mondays at 9 p.m. ET for the most recent episodes of FBI‘s eighth season, forward of Watson at 10 p.m. ET. You may as well revisit earlier episodes streaming on Paramount+.
