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Murder in the First,’ TV review
New Steven Bochco crime series makes room for striking performances from Taye Diggs, Kathleen Robertson and Tom Felton
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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Actor Taye Diggs opens up to ET about his emotional new detective role in TNT’s summer crime drama ‘Murder in the First’.
‘Murder in the First” has just the combination you want in a crime drama: a basic story that’s easy to follow and intriguing nuance that’s hard to miss.
Kathleen Robertson and Taye Diggs further enhance matters with standout performances as Hildy Mulligan and Terry English, a pair of San Francisco homicide detectives.
They catch a Murder that seems relatively mundane until they find a connection to Erich Blunt (Tom Felton), a software zillionaire we immediately dislike.
Eddy ChenKathleen Robertson and Taye Diggs are San Francisco detectives in ‘Murder In the First.’
Arrogant corporate executives have become perhaps the most reliable villains on TV and in the movies these days. Make that executive a twentysomething punk who thinks he’s smarter and better than everyone else, and his villain value shoots through the roof.
“Murder,” created by Steven Bochco, is designed as a 10-episode closed-end series, and from the First couple, it seems to use that model exactly as we’d like.
Trae PattonKathleen Robertson and Taye Diggs in ‘Murder in the First’ on TNT
That means time to let a scene breathe and room for a brilliant riff from Blunt’s lawyer, David Hertzberg (Richard Schiff), which isn’t essential to the plot but makes everything a little richer.
We soon realize neither the hunters nor the hunted are as perfect or imperfect as they First seemed, which makes the pursuit of justice feel soberingly realistic.
Like most of the best cable shows, “Murder in the First” strips the production and the cast down to the essentials, then executes them well.
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