- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 25, 2014
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The show is fast-paced and unpretentious, and it finds clever ways to deliver exposition that might otherwise be tedious.... [But] It often tries too hard to wow us, when it might have been better off just telling its story and developing its characters.
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For now, it appears to be a whodunit told in flashbacks and an ensemble drama whose ensemble has yet to fully emerge from Davis' formidable shadow.
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Perhaps inevitably, with so much going on, the law students sort of blend together in the pilot (a few weeks after watching the premiere, it was difficult to remember who did what), while Davis’ scenes quickly expose sides of Keating that suggest there’s far more to her than meets the eye.
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It's all a little pell-mell, but it just about holds together and Viola Davis is ferocious in the lead role.
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Murder jumps around a lot, to the point where it’s perhaps too much.
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It’s straining to be TV’s new obsession, instead of a riveting drama.
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[Davis'] performance is riveting; you can't take your eyes off this powerful creature when she's on the screen. Alas, the students aren't nearly as compelling.... When the action shifts to them, the drama suffers.
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The series manages to maintain a certain melodramatic tension, at least from the evidence of the pilot, but it could be hard to overcome the sledgehammer cynicism and mess of nefarious plot turns.
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Davis is riveting throughout.... Unfortunately, Murder has a number of flaws.
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It doesn’t offer enough fun to balance out the multiple improbabilities in its storyline, the constant time-shifts, the hard-to-follow scenes in the dark or what we’re expected to accept about the legal and academic worlds.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 302 out of 386
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Mixed: 30 out of 386
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Negative: 54 out of 386
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Oct 13, 2014
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Oct 2, 2014
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Sep 27, 2014