The Closer, Season 7 “Under Control”
This week’s episode made up for the misstep that last week’s episode was. This week tackles the stomach churning issue of the death of a child, which isn’t new to crime shows but is brought out every once and a while, and The Closer used this theme to the best of its ability this week.
A child is found dead and quickly turns into an investigation of the divorcee’s parents and the mother’s boyfriends, which has to be one of the nastiest divorces portrayed on TV in a while. The show stets up one of these three to be the killer, and not as a shock who the killer was, his or her reasoning were down right chilling. Equally as chilling was the scene between the medical examiner and Chief Jonson. The chilling part was how forgone the medical examiner from preforming an autopsy on this young victim. The bathroom that he was sitting next to helped bring this emotion home.
This episode added more emotional strings by having Tao and his son work out their issues (though they aren’t that series) it added character to Tao and gave the episode that something extra to help it balance out the extremely bleak case that the unit had to solve this week. There was also some progression in the lawsuit against Chief Jonson, who finally realized that she needs to get her own lawyer. It only took her the entire episode to realize this. Get it together.
The case this week is probably the standout for the season and for very good reasons. When The Closer does a case well, it excels in doing so. Now only if every episode could be a stand out one.
Rating: Watch
Original Air Date: 8/1/11
On TNT, Monday’s at 9/8c
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