The show has a sheen that's distinctive from Law [& Order]--young, exfoliated skin reflects light better from waxed court floors--and promises to be more fun than In Justice. [6 Mar 2006, p.41]

The inspiration can be heavy-handed, but how can you not feel for the couple?

It's [Bobi Kristins's] aunt Pat Houston who gives the show--and, one hopes, Bobbi Kristina--some backbone. [5 Nov 2012, p.43]

Contrasting the then-and-now lives of a group of high school students, class of 2000, the show is drearily familiar. [27 Sep 2010, p.56]

It's meaningful that a gay dad with a teen daughter can be conventional--it's a just not great comedy. [14 Oct 2013, p.44]

It's Court TV's first original scripted drama, and it's bad. [16 Apr 2007, p.43]

Consider it dead on arrival. [27 May 2013, p.40]

[Forest Whitaker as Sam Cooper is] an arresting, oblique performance, and it works well amid all the procedural muck. [21 Feb 2011, p.42]

It's not clear how seriously Patinkin takes the whole thing--it's the same actorly mystery that makes David Caruso's whispery bitterness such a kick on CSI: Miami. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]

It's standard murder-of-the-week type stuff with just a hint of pseudo spirituality. Trouble is, characters who speak in cliches don't deserve to be in your living room.

The declining but not yet flatlining EKG of their relationship is captured very nicely by Williams and Matchett, both giving strong, stoic performances. Everything else is too quiet, though. [25 Jun 2007, p.41]

The show itself is standard construction, a framework of planks that will need more work. [6 May 2013, p.48]

[A] disappointingly thin, damp new series. [10 Jun 2013, p.47]

This Miami trauma-hospital drama is marginally better than "Three Rivers."

This is all nicely produced with mild offbeat tweaks along the way... But none of this is original either. [24 Apr 2006, p.39]

The show can be wonderfully mean... but it's too spotty. [24 Oct 2005, p.41]

The pilot aspires to outrageousness, but the humor needs to get a whole lot smarter.

The Nashville-meets-California jokes are pretty weak. [12 Nov 2012, p.46]

Here, with no force of personality, the format is just a congress of faux-fabulous. [28 Feb 2011, p.39]

[Viewers] may get a kick out of the mix of adrenaline and murk. [26 Jun 2006, p.41]

The scale is wrong. This is an overelaborate piffle, a crate-size bon-bon. The best thinge is Papa.

Sort of a Real Housewives with saddles. [16 Dec 2013]

Cox... doesn't have the right vulgar relish to hold the show together. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]

This is one kid who should not stay in the picture. [7 Nov 2011, p.45]

There are small funny moments along the way. [4 Dec 2006, p.39]

Innocently goofy. [30 Apr 2007, p.37]

Gilbert seems like the one you'd most like the one you'd like to have in your actual mom's group. The others, not so much. [15 Nov 2010, p.43]

The "nuttiness" is contrived, but Johnny Argent, Roseanne's boyfriend of eight years, is amusingly droll. [1 Aug 2011, p.41]