In "The Closer", Sedgwick is Brenda Johnson, a Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief who goes out among 'em and solves crimes in the kinda-sorta mean streets of L.A. more or less single handedly while her cadre of male detectives look on with chagrin. A sort of lame knock-off of Colombo, Brenda is a perpetually addlepated, klutzy, and can't follow a road map but somehow manages to turn into Sherlock Holmes when it counts. The first few episodes of season one appear to be dedicated to fleshing out the very southern Brenda character - who is way below Sedgwick's abilities - while leaving plenty of hooks for future story lines should the series survive...which I doubt it will. An okay watch for sofa spuds who don't mind some corny light drama in their cop shows. Thankew. Thankew very much. (C)
Review of The Closer
