Premiering Tonight: "Women's Murder Club"
By Jason Snell – October 12, 2007
Women’s Murder Club (9 p.m. PT/ET, ABC): Four San Francisco women — a detective (Angie Harmon), medical examiner, reporter, and district attorney — team up to solve crimes. Now that’s what I call an old-school premise! The women are good friends and lend each other emotional support while also sharing information that allows them to solve cases that otherwise would go unsolved. Based on author James Patterson’s novels, this is a different sort of crime-mystery series, and it’s got a lot of potential. Aaron Barnhart
agrees. Tim Goodman
disagrees. X gets the square.
I'm more with Goodman than Barnhart. I found the whole thing very self-conscious and awkward, and don't feel any need to watch another episode. Unless there's an explanation forthcoming about the show's publicity photo, which shows *five* San Francisco women. What happened to the extra one?
Oddly enough, the pilot I saw this summer bears little resemblance to the first episode that aired. Different plot, etc.
When I read Goodman's review I was a bit mystified, but now I am understanding it better.
Obviously the re-tooling didn't go far enough. Everyone knows a team needs a swanky van and a talking dog in order to go around solving crimes.