Today's column reviews ABC's lame "Women's Murder Club":
"Women's Murder Club,"
We are in the middle of a major procedural crime glut. There are now more than a dozen network shows with some kind of significant crime-solving element (even more if you start working in fantasy shows that have weekly mysteries, like "Pushing Daisies" and "Reaper"), not to mention all the rotating cop and detective shows on USA, TNT, FX and elsewhere in the cable universe.
There are too many cops, too many killers, too many mysteries that play out exactly the same from show to show. The sheer tonnage of this stuff has, ironically, made the crime-solving part almost irrelevant. The shows that succeed are the ones where the characters are compelling enough that you'll keep watching even after figuring out whodunit by the second commercial break.
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