The Closer

Brenda Leigh Johnson : Kyra Sedgwick
Will Pope : J.K. Simmons
Captain Taylor : Robert Gossett
Agent Fritz Howard : Jon Tenney

The Closer, a new police drama on TNT, is about a police detective Brenda Leigh Johnson who transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit handling sensitive high-profile murder cases.

The first episode introduces us to Johnson and lets us know about her talents and quirks. Johnson, it appears, is a world-class interrogator but has some severe personality problems. Her first day on the job she introduces herself to her colleges by barging onto an crime scene, taking over the investigation and treating all of the other detectives on the scene with total contempt.

Johnson’s underlings, not appreciating her methods, all request transfers that she handles in a sensitive fashion by one by one dropping their transfer requests in the trash. She obviously has never read Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.

Throughout the rest of the commercial free hour episode Johnson continues to offend and intimidate all, but slowly wins the respect of her people, because she proves to be so very good at her job.

The case under investigation, involves a murdered women, a missing high tech genius, believed to be the murderer, and his “emotional” platonic lover, a young Catholic women. The case is …

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Bones

Dr. Temperance Brennan : Emily Deschanel
Special Agent Seeley Booth : David Boreanaz
Zack Addy : Eric Millegan
Dr. Jack Hodgins : T.J. Thyne
Angela Montenegro : Michaela Conlin
Dr. Daniel Goodman : Jonathan Adams

Bones, the new Fox mystery starring Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz, is based on a series of books by forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs. I’ve never read any of the books by Reichs so I really can’t judge how the books have translated to the TV series, but I will give you my first impressions about the show itself.

The pilot episode introduces us to the characters of Dr. Temperance Brennan and Special Agent Seeley Booth as they attempt to determine what happened to a girl whose decomposed body was found in a pond in Arlington Nation Cemetery.

The show opens with Brennan arriving home from a trip to Guatemala and being held at the airport so that Booth can attempt to convince her to work on a case with him. The two have worked together before and apparently things did not go well because Brennan wants nothing to do with Booth. He continues to work on her and she finally agrees to work with him only if she is allowed to fully participate in the case.

Breenan and her team arrive at the pond, gather the necessary evidence and …

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