TV Guide - Cold Case Finale

[Naj]

Cold Case
8 pm/ET, CBS
It's not surprising that this freshman crime series is the year's highest rated new drama. After all, it's produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the mogul behind the blockbuster CSI franchise and Without a Trace.

What is surprising, in a very pleasant way, is how it's matured since last fall. Early on, the stories were often weak and the killer too obvious, but the episodes have grown progressively stronger.

That improvement is evident in tonight's complex season finale, in which DNA evidence reveals that an innocent man was convicted of murdering a 15-year-old girl (Mae Whitman) in 1986. — Tim Holland

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~Naj

[TVFan]

I found this in the same issue. It's from an article called "The Season's Best and Worst."

Best New Drama:
Cold Case (CBS) The past is vividly present in the latest winner from Jerry Bruckheimer's blue-chip assembly line of engrossing crime dramas (CSI, Without A Trace). As Det. Lilly Rush (the excellent Kathryn Morris) unearths painful memories while tackling long-unsolved mysteries, we see the suspects as they were then and are now. It's an emotional resonant device that works every time.

"the excellent Kathryn Morris"... I'm glad to see that others are noticing how talented she really is. One note about the blurb Naj posted, I couldn't agree more about the show getting stronger as the season went on. The writers et al really stepped it up as they went along. That's something you see very rarely in television.