The Closer Season 7 Home Improvement
Let me get the only good thing from this week’s episode of The Closer out of the way, always great to see Mark Pellegrino in anything. Pellegrino is well known for his stents on LOST and Supernatural (some of my personal favorites). He plays Brenda’s lawyer, who is defending her in the civil case against her for the wrongful death lawsuit.
Now for everything else that fell short this week. The premise wasn’t bad, mediocre at best, but nothing was flawed with the concept. The execution however was short of anything worth watching. At some points I felt as if I was watching Rizzoli & Isles (ouch). A body is found when a contractor’s unauthorized construction is ripped down, exposing a trash bag with a dead body inside. The body of a local neighbor who happens to be a sex offender. The squad then goes on a lack luster investigation into the death, that doesn’t take any chances in the creativity department.
On the home front, Brenda cuts back to save money for the lawyer she can’t afford but needs for the impending law suit. This scene went on too much, especially after the second or third thing she has cut back on and watching her husband’s reaction. Painful to watch, but not the most painful thing in this episode.
In procedural cop shows, half of the acting weight falls on the shoulders of the actors that come through the revolving door each week. Only half of the cast is constant, which causes a demand for actors who can become a character for a short amount of time and pull this off successfully. This week on The Closer, this was the most painful thing to watch. Actors who are just run of the mill acting on such a subpar level that SyFy movies are almost award winning compared to this level of mediocrity. The Closer normally doesn’t have this level of laziness when it comes to the cast, and cannot fall to this level again in their final season.
Rating: Pass
Original Air Date: 8/15/11
On TNT Monday’s at 9/8c
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