Women's Murder Club

2007

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Synopsis

Women's Murder Club was an American police procedural and legal drama, which ran on ABC from October 12, 2007, to May 13, 2008. The series is set in San Francisco, California and is based on the 'Women's Murder Club' series of novels written by James Patterson. Series creators Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain also served as executive producers alongside Patterson, Joe Simpson, Brett Ratner, and R. Scott Gemmill. The latter also served as showrunner, with Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts co-executive producing. The pilot was directed by Scott Winant.

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FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Enoch Sneed I couldn't quite believe what I was watching when I saw this. Three young, attractive women with responsible jobs tackling serious crimes who suddenly break off and discuss girl things like relationships, ex-husbands, and their feelings. Talk about having your cake and eating it.The crime plot in the episode I saw was quite intriguing and seemed well-crafted, with an interesting range of possible suspects and some good red-herrings drifting around. Then we were suddenly in a scene where the girls were saying Lindsay should get back together with Tom (even though she's a career-driven, goal-orientated modern woman). It was as if someone else's script had been bolted on to either fill in the time or - more likely - appeal to separate demographics.Having said that I think Angie Harmon is gorgeous. I thought I had found the woman of my dreams, then I discovered she was a Republican who supported John McCain for president. Another illusion shattered...
BGrrl I thought there were more than enough murder shows on TV with all the CSIs and Law & Orders, etc.. But I like Angie Harmon, so I gave this new show a shot. I was really impressed with the twist of the "women's club" -- A basic stereotype is that men are more emotionally detached, so they can better deal with the horrifying nature of this kind of police work. This show places women in these hard roles, with all their emotions still running. That causes a different dynamic, allows for a new twist on the homicide scene. WMC ends most episodes with these 4 women gathering to check in with one another, to deal with the emotional difficulties of the job and life in general. It adds a soft touch, shows the harsh reality of the homicide beat, and makes the characters more real and likable.
stelmarta-1 Unsurprisingly, this is a fairly mediocre show. The writing is less than brilliant, the acting is serviceable but otherwise unremarkable, the plots are not terribly original, and it's difficult to summon up much interest in the characters. However it's not so terrible that you can't watch it, so if you're looking for a basic crime drama then this will do in a pinch.But what bothers me about this show is that though all the main characters are women, and so far most of the crimes have centered on women and their lives, is that all the plots about these women's lives center around their relationship to men. The Medical Examiner has to deal with her husband being in a wheelchair; the Lawyer has to deal with her (female) boss' jealousy after she sleeps with her (the boss') ex-boyfriend (while Lawyer is herself in a committed relationship with someone else, I might add); the Detective is trying to deal with having her ex-husband as her new boss and her devotion to her job getting in the way of domestic bliss. All these women talk about in an episode, apart from the details of the crime, is their relationship problems. "Detective, you have to have a boyfriend!" "I can't believe you slept with him, Lawyer!" "How are you and your husband dealing with the wheelchair thing, Medical Examiner?" It never ends. Mercifully, the Reporter is still devoid of a personal life, but I expect that soon the writers will start in on her and her need for a good man.Don't get me wrong, men are great. But in a show that seems to be aiming at celebrating professional women who fight crime and make the world a safer place, the writers seem fairly determined to make their lives hinge on their relationships with men and, in the case of Detective, insisting that she needs a man to make her happy. It's a subtle sort of sexism that bothers me deeply.
wjturner Tonight's was the first episode I've seen and I must say that I'm not all that impressed, either with the acting or the sets. I spent nearly 40 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and rode BART for several years. This show has the trains AND the platforms (stations) looking much more like the New York subway, with their corrugated sheet metal trains and hard metal benches, instead of the aerodynamic, sleek trains and upholstered seats that BART uses. The BART logo is wrong, and the Dept. of Transportation isn't called Dept. of Transportation in California...it's called CalTrans. Period. The inside of the police "precinct" (their work) looks like something out of NYPD Blue with the lights turned down. SFPD doesn't call their police stations "precincts"...they call them "stations". If the producers want to make this a believable show, then use believable words that convey the feeling of being a part of one of the greatest cities in the US...neh, the world.