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Seems like the denial of service attack on LJ has gotten worse.
I was curious enough to watch the first episode of Body of Proof last night, but I wasn't expecting much. And not much is exactly what it delivered.
Dana Delany plays the usual, 'I know everything about it, so the police can just shut up and listen," Medical Examiner. Unfortunately she doesn't have the mixture of charm and vehemence of Jack Klugman's Quincy, nor the Idiot-Savant sweetness of the otherwise abrasive Bones of Emily Deschannel. Her character Megan Hunt is nasty and likes it. At least toward the police. Delany has this little cutesy, I-told-you-so smile which is her trademark in just about everything she been in, including a couple episodes of Castle last year. Using it repeatedly in the first episode of Body of Proof was a mistake. Seeing it over and over is a bit like the character proclaiming I'm-a-nasty-bee-otch-nyeah-nyeah-nyeah. After awhile you wish somebody would smack her across the room. Which is unfortunate because the character isn't that awful otherwise.
The Assistant Coroner is Windell Middlebrooks, that big guy who takes Miller beer away from affluent people in those weird beer commercials. Yes, he's black, he's fat and he's the comic relief. Isn't that just precious?
The Coroner is Jeri Ryan, who looks like she'll be quite effective and neither comic relief nor an aging sex-pot in this role.
There is of course, an angry cop who begrudgingly respects her and blah, blah, blah.
The morgue scenes are beyond tame. The story was more okey-dokey than good.
If you're bored on a Tuesday night you might try it. But don't expect award-winning TV from this one.
Dana Delany plays the usual, 'I know everything about it, so the police can just shut up and listen," Medical Examiner. Unfortunately she doesn't have the mixture of charm and vehemence of Jack Klugman's Quincy, nor the Idiot-Savant sweetness of the otherwise abrasive Bones of Emily Deschannel. Her character Megan Hunt is nasty and likes it. At least toward the police. Delany has this little cutesy, I-told-you-so smile which is her trademark in just about everything she been in, including a couple episodes of Castle last year. Using it repeatedly in the first episode of Body of Proof was a mistake. Seeing it over and over is a bit like the character proclaiming I'm-a-nasty-bee-otch-nyeah-nyeah-nyeah. After awhile you wish somebody would smack her across the room. Which is unfortunate because the character isn't that awful otherwise.
The Assistant Coroner is Windell Middlebrooks, that big guy who takes Miller beer away from affluent people in those weird beer commercials. Yes, he's black, he's fat and he's the comic relief. Isn't that just precious?
The Coroner is Jeri Ryan, who looks like she'll be quite effective and neither comic relief nor an aging sex-pot in this role.
There is of course, an angry cop who begrudgingly respects her and blah, blah, blah.
The morgue scenes are beyond tame. The story was more okey-dokey than good.
If you're bored on a Tuesday night you might try it. But don't expect award-winning TV from this one.
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