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  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 4, 2005
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
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Metascore
54 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

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10 out of 10
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  • Creator: Jim Leonard
  • Show Type: Ended
  • Season 1 premiere date: Oct 4, 2005
  • Episode Length: 60
  • Air Time: 09:00 PM
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 20
  3. Negative: 2 out of 20
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Adam Buckman
    75
    Women -- especially young mothers juggling responsibilities at home and the office - will find much with which to identify in the story of Annabeth.
  2. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Cynthia Fuchs
    60
    [The show has] married the procedural to melodrama, with occasionally intriguing results.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    38
    It can't be this much like glorified Lifetime every week, can it?

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 24
  3. Negative: 5 out of 24
  1. urbanmagic
    10
    By far the best of the Bruckheimer shows, it is a shame it was not on the air longer. It blended drama and humor so well, something that is sorely missing in most of contemporary television.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. KP
    5
    This show isn't so bad I'll refuse to have it on even for ignored background noise, but there's nothing really redeeming about it either. The first episode, I was so many steps in front of the characters in figuring things out that it was annoying (rather than rewarding in the "see! I was right!" sense that that sort of foreshadowing is supposed to give the viewer). It was *obvious* to me what the outcome would be, and it took the characters so long to get there that I was ready to smack them upside the head. None of the interesting twists you'd expect from this kind of show. Nonetheless, until someone puts something more interesting in a competing timeslot, my TV will likely be tuned to this show when it's on and I'm home. ... even if just for the background noise. Definitely not one to TiVo.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. JimP
    1
    More of the same with this show. In same genre as CSI, CSI Miami, Numbers, Cold Case, CSI NY, - how about something original?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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