In a story that looks very different and very dangerous. It tells of a wonderful and troubled surgeon trying to prove that death is not the end by studying reincarnations and near-death experiences. Perhaps the beginning of these experiments is serious. After the death of her teenage son, divorce and schism with her daughter, Dr. Caroline Tyler appears to be approaching Ivan Turing, the technical inventor and billionaire, to investigate the miraculous cases of reincarnation through several near-death experiments.
Proof does not fit the tone TNT has cultivated more recently with The Last Ship and The Librarians. Proof feels like a throwback and a bit of a throwaway, too.
Proof raises the question whether there is evidence of life after death and gives the impression that the show is going to delay giving an answer for as long as possible. Worse, it seems that the creators really haven't thought it out.
On its own terms - which is as a comforting medical-supernatural drama with a strong female lead designed to follow TNT's Rizzoli & isles - Proof proves its modest worth.
This is Beals' show from start to finish, with her character's softer sides and haunted vulnerabilities seeping through that hard-shell casing during Episode 3 in particular.
