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Critic Reviews
Sep 28, 2017
Season 1 Review:
I enjoyed [the first two episodes] in the same way I once enjoyed the original “Law & Order,” as an entertaining but not challenging way to pass some time. Also, amid all the workmanlike performances, Edie Falco is captivating as Leslie Abramson, the defense attorney with trademark blond curls, and Josh Charles is effectively creepy as the morally abhorrent therapist Dr. Jerome Oziel. But The Menendez Murders has very little of the breadth and context that distinguished “American Crime Story.”
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Sep 21, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Of the two episodes presented to critics, the first is markedly better. ... Every actor, from Falco to supporting players Reaser and Edwards, seems to be relishing the chance to ham it up a little, and at least in that arena, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders delivers admirably. ... There is a covenant of trust with the viewer to present a case impartially, and by the second episode, that trust has mostly evaporated.
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TV Guide MagazineSep 28, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The verdict is still out after the first two chapters, which merely seem guilty of dramatic exploitation. [2-15 Oct 2017, p.15]
Sep 26, 2017
Season 1 Review:
All of this is very watchable, as with all Law & Order, but not without coating the viewer in a little true slime. ... The Menendez Murders, in comparison, simply feels like the most high-profile case that Dick Wolf, the Law & Order impresario, could grab the rights to.
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Sep 26, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Showrunner Rene Balcer, who previously drew inspiration from the Menendez murders to write a 1991 “Law & Order” episode, steers his writers to take the same dry approach here as he did sixteen years ago, walking us through the particulars of the tale with all the spark of a burned out docent on her last museum tour of the day.
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Sep 26, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The first installment of the eight-episode drama, which airs Tuesday night on NBC, is murder-reenactment-by-the-numbers, complete with black-and-white flashbacks, an oppressively ominous and omnipresent score, and a script that continually feels the need to point out the patently obvious.
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Sep 25, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Falco is so much better than the rest of the cast that the show quickly splits itself into terrific scenes that she is in vs. ho-hum scenes that she is not. ... What you have here is a drawn-out period piece about a period and an event that aren’t worth remembering.
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