I should not admit this as a professional TV watcher, but there are some shows I simply do not get. One of these is The Closer, which back in its first season I decided got far too much credit for glomming the slightest bit of character development (Kyra Sedgwick’s crime-solver-with-issues basically amounting to Jane Tennison Lite) on to what was otherwise a by-the-numbers cop procedural.
But the nation’s TV audience disagreed with me, as they so often do, and turned The Closer into the biggest thing on cable not involving football or the ambiguous resolutions of Mafia dons. So I’ll be watching The Closer tonight, or at least my TiVo will be, in the spirit of giving it one last chance.
Are there layers to this show I’m not giving it credit for? Is it it just further proof that cable viewers love them some Law & Order, even if the procedural doesn’t actually have Law & Order in its name? Make your case, Closer lovers.