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Close to Home (2005)
Season 1
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A legal drama that rips away the facade of suburbia to reveal that sometimes quiet streets can hide the darkest crimes.
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Where to Watch Close to Home (2005) • Season 1
Tubi TV
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Cast of Season 1
Jennifer Finnigan
Annabeth Chase
Kimberly Elise
Maureen Scofield
John Carroll Lynch
Steve Sharpe
Christian Kane
Jack Chase
Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer
Jim Leonard
Producer
Close to Home (2005) • Season 1 Ratings & Reviews
Charlotte Observer
Mark Washburn
Guilty of schmaltz in the first degree.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Neal Justin
Finnigan, a talented comedienne, is less than compelling as a dramatic heavy.
Hartford Courant
Roger Catlin
Jennifer Finnigan finds her niche in a new crime show about a new mom who is also a tough prosecutor. She makes "Close to Home" different from the handful of shows like it.
USA Today
Robert Bianco
We already have seen too many shows this season built around the infliction of pain on women. But at least Close doesn't revel in it... And the image of woman-as-victim is countered by the show's presentation of a strong heroine.
New York Post
Austin Smith
Women -- especially young mothers juggling responsibilities at home and the office -- will find much with which to identify in the story of Annabeth.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Jay Handelman
It's a surprisingly compelling story.
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
It's married the procedural to melodrama, with occasionally intriguing results, primarily having to do with Annabeth and Maureen's simmering, self-containing, all-unspoken-realities exchanges.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
It's a contrived product, but the storytelling reveals the cases and their solutions nicely, if straightforwardly. And Finnigan makes an appealing lead.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rob Owen
It's another crime drama, but one that's well-made. And Finnigan is an empathetic, believable lead.
Washington Post
Chip Crews
Earnest, inoffensive and old-fashioned. If this sounds like faint praise, well, it is -- but then a lot of series don't rise even to that level.
Variety
Brian Lowry
Does possess an element of realism that eludes those dramas where serial killers are as common as hot dog vendors. Finnigan, meanwhile, is appealing enough to sell the requisite mix of attributes
Seattle Times
Kay McFadden
The cast generally is quite adept... Yet it ultimately is hard to forget that "Close to Home" is a police procedural, with the pat formulaic demands of that genre and, at least tomorrow, an unsurprising conclusion.
Orlando Sentinel
Hal Boedeker
Close to Home is no breakthrough, but it is competent, and that counts for a lot in drama this season.
San Francisco Chronicle
Tim Goodman
The pilot of "Close to Home" was pretty good, but I have worries about the storytelling holding up.
New York Times
Alessandra Stanley
Close to Home revolves around the superhuman effort a woman makes to balance family and career. Perhaps a little too emphatically at times.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Lloyd
I can't feel for [Jennifer Finnigan] -- I don't even believe it's her baby, or her husband. But she isn't helped by a production that tends to make everything look artificial, that freezes the air between the characters and keeps them distant.
Chicago Tribune
Maureen Ryan
The trouble with this drama is that it doesn't veer much from the often dark tone of the other procedurals from the Bruckheimer TV factory. It's not exactly another CSI, but the material in the pilot, anyway, is grim.
Common Sense Media
Sierra Filucci
Sadly, this show's premise doesn't reward viewers with any real psychological or emotional payoff. The plots rely too heavily on well-worn territory that other shows, like Law & Order and CSI, do with much more thrill.
People Magazine
People Staff
Finnigan's performance dovetails perfectly with Close's neat if heavy-handed dramatic concept: The show, coproduced by Jerry Bruckheimer, will be able to trumpet the values of family life while trotting out the repulsive debris of human behavior.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Melanie McFarland
It's easy to imagine working moms getting hooked on the way Close to Home creates situations in which Annabeth's maternal instinct hones her sense of justice.
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