ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Tonight's Best TV Monday, July 11, 2011
A Daily Guide To Notable Shows
... The Closer
9-10 PM TNT, SEASON PREMIERE
Last year Kyra Sedgwick earned an Emmy for her firecracker performance as Brenda Leigh Johnson, the indefatigable, near-unbeatable LAPD investigator whose smarts, intensity, and Southern-fried sass are the bane of both the bad guys she puts away and the good guys she works with. The season 8 premiere kicks off the star's swan-song year — and an epic setup for a potential spin-off about Mary McDonnell's equally no-nonsense internal-affairs cop, Captain Raydor. The story has Brenda and her Major Crimes team (who together form one of TV's most entertaining ensembles) investigating the murder of an up-and-coming rapper and his (alleged) drug-dealing pals. It's not top-notch Closer; everyone and everything feels a smidge tired. Yet however grating the premiere may be, the series remains undeniably winning — just like Brenda herself.
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— Jeff Jensen
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