Cheers: Julianna Margulies Lays Down the Law
Julianna Margulies by KC Bailey/NBC
Cheers to Julianna Margulies for resuscitating her acting skills with
Canterbury's Law. In easily her best role since
ER - I didn't buy her as the cokehead real-estate agent with a taste for mobsters on
The Sopranos - the Emmy-winner tears up the screen as a Providence, Rhode Island, defense attorney who'll cross any line to serve her clients. You almost couldn't blame the child killer she busted in the pilot for punching her in the nose. And the episode's final scene, in which she curls up in her missing son's bed and smells his pillow, was quietly heart-shattering. The show may feel a bit derivative (it's
Damages meets
House), but Margulies' bravely unsympathetic performance overrules any objections.
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