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CBS | Release Date: October 4, 2005

CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION

54	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic Reviews

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60

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Melanie McFarland

Season 1 Review: Those still smarting over [Judging Amy's] cancellation may take a while to warm up to the way "Close to Home" wraps justice in a small fuzzy blanket. Read full review

60

Variety

Season 1 Review: "Close to Home" lives up and down to its title -- staying very close to what's worked for CBS before. Read full review

60

Boston Globe

Matthew Gilbert

Season 1 Review: It's a contrived product, but the storytelling reveals the cases and their solutions nicely, if straightforwardly. Read full review

60

Philadelphia Inquirer

Season 1 Review: Close to Home is supposed to be playing on the dark-underbelly-of-the-burbs fascination supposedly stirred by Desperate Housewives. But it's basically just another lawyer/crime show with a mommy twist. Read full review

60

The New York Times

Alessandra Stanley

Season 1 Review: It is instructive to observe how working woman's guilt plays out in a postfeminist era when having it all is considered a privilege, not a right. Read full review

60

PopMatters

Season 1 Review: [The show has] married the procedural to melodrama, with occasionally intriguing results. Read full review

50

Miami Herald

Season 1 Review: What would otherwise be a tedious collection of working-mom and lawyer-show clichés is saved by an excellent cast. Read full review

50

Chicago Tribune

Season 1 Review: The trouble with this drama is that it doesn't veer much from the often dark tone of the other procedurals from the Bruckheimer TV factory. Read full review

42

Entertainment Weekly

Season 1 Review: Home isn't a bad show--it's just bad-intentioned. [7 Oct 2005, p.64]

40

The Hollywood Reporter

Season 1 Review: Finnigan, who was so right in NBC's loopy comedy "Committed," lacks the heft for the role of the no-nonsense prosecutor. Not that, as written, the role would be easy for anyone. It requires Annabeth to be a vigorous and energetic protagonist and, simultaneously, a weepy young mother with postpartum blues. Read full review

40

Newsday

Season 1 Review: This canned stew is further flavored with too-snappy comebacks, too-slick repartee and too-clever contrivances. Making it bearable are cast members who do somehow manage to seem like people next door. Read full review

40

San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times

Charlie McCollum

Season 1 Review: A pedestrian, predictable crime procedural. Read full review

40

Los Angeles Times

Season 1 Review: A production that tends to make everything look artificial, that freezes the air between the characters and keeps them distant. Read full review

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