Completing the exciting incidents where the last season stops that follows Theodore Hoffman, a smart lawyer, who takes on a murder case, as he struggles against defending a young actor of alcoholism addicted and involved in a murder. In this new season, Ted travels to Europe to save his family.
The opening plot has some cracks, but none that can't be stepped over in an hour that is often transfixing and has you looking forward to the next episode.
The drama does have sparks and fireworks, the production is glossy and deluxe, and the first case is full of tantalizing complications even in its early stages.
By making [Anthony] LaPaglia a former D.A. who switches tables, Murder [One] offers a character who's as ambivalent about defense attorneys as most post-O.J. Americans are.
Murder One is still magnificently filmed and framed -- if anything, it remains too luscious. But, in casting a hero for a big budget series which seeks to reflect the moral decline of the times, it has chosen better this time.
Murder One remains adult television of a high order. Producer Steven Bochco's sure hand is evident from the tough-minded writing and deft casting to the superlative music and photography.
