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75Women -- especially young mothers juggling responsibilities at home and the office — will find much with which to identify in the story of Annabeth.
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75It's well cast, well executed and solidly competent across the board. But exciting, it's not.
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70Better than average.
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63The show isn't a terrific one, but its working-mom protagonist, and its element of "Blue Velvet"-style suburban creepiness, might well find a very receptive and loyal audience for this CBS drama.
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63Finnigan's performance dovetails perfectly with Close's neat if heavy- handed dramatic concept. [17 Oct 2005, p.39]
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60[The show has] married the procedural to melodrama, with occasionally intriguing results.
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60It is instructive to observe how working woman's guilt plays out in a postfeminist era when having it all is considered a privilege, not a right.
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60Close to Home is supposed to be playing on the dark-underbelly-of-the-burbs fascination supposedly stirred by Desperate Housewives. But it's basically just another lawyer/crime show with a mommy twist.
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60Those still smarting over [Judging Amy's] cancellation may take a while to warm up to the way "Close to Home" wraps justice in a small fuzzy blanket.
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60"Close to Home" lives up and down to its title -- staying very close to what's worked for CBS before.
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60It's a contrived product, but the storytelling reveals the cases and their solutions nicely, if straightforwardly.
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50The trouble with this drama is that it doesn't veer much from the often dark tone of the other procedurals from the Bruckheimer TV factory.
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50What would otherwise be a tedious collection of working-mom and lawyer-show clichés is saved by an excellent cast.
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42Home isn't a bad show--it's just bad-intentioned. [7 Oct 2005, p.64]
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40A production that tends to make everything look artificial, that freezes the air between the characters and keeps them distant.
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40Finnigan, who was so right in NBC's loopy comedy "Committed," lacks the heft for the role of the no-nonsense prosecutor. Not that, as written, the role would be easy for anyone. It requires Annabeth to be a vigorous and energetic protagonist and, simultaneously, a weepy young mother with postpartum blues.
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40This canned stew is further flavored with too-snappy comebacks, too-slick repartee and too-clever contrivances. Making it bearable are cast members who do somehow manage to seem like people next door.
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40A pedestrian, predictable crime procedural.
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38It can't be this much like glorified Lifetime every week, can it?
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25Crusading criminal prosecutor Annabeth Chase... [is] the most irritating lead character on any new drama series this fall.
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LilyH10I absolutely LOVE this show!! I think the cast is great, and Jennifer Finnigan is my favourite actress!