• Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 19, 1995
Metascore
50

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 15
  2. Negative: 3 out of 15

Critic Reviews

  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd Everett
    May 29, 2014
    60
    Show is cast better than it deserves, with Williams gamely in for film's Susan Sarandon, Polly Holliday nicely restrained as Momma Love and Ossie Davis noble as the friendly judge who pops up all over the place. [15 Sept 1995]
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    May 29, 2014
    60
    A first-rate movie thriller has been turned into a second-rate TV show, but upper-second-rate, not lower. And among this season's new entries, with one or two exceptions, second-rate is about as good as things get. [16 Sept 1995, p.D01]
  3. Cleveland Plain Dealer
    Reviewed by: Tom Feran
    May 29, 2014
    60
    Viewers shouldn't be fooled into expecting more than a conventional lawyer show. [16 Sept 1995, p.8E]
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Bianculli
    May 29, 2014
    50
    Williams, though, in both Sunday's telemovie and the subsequent Tuesday-night regular episode time-slot at 8, is too reserved and colorless. [15 Sept 1995, p.127]
  5. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Lon Grahnke
    May 29, 2014
    50
    Reggie doesn't need gunshots or explosions when she can talk her foes to death. [15 Sept 1995, p.53]
  6. San Diego Union-Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert P. Laurence
    May 29, 2014
    50
    The story told in tonight's pilot is more of the same old TV stuff. [17 Sept 1995, p.TV6]
  7. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    May 29, 2014
    50
    The original pilot was a mess, confusing and annoyingly full of holes, but an extremely well-cast mess with a lot of potential. [17 Sept 1995, p.6C]
  8. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    May 29, 2014
    40
    Run-of-the-mill TV. [17 Sept 1995, p.F1]