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THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA
September 17, 2014  | By David Bianculli

NBC, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: This is a warning, not a recommendation. Debra Messing is a very likable actress. The Mysteries of Laura, however, is a very unlikable show. She plays a detective juggling an intense and dangerous life at work with a hectic and harried life at home,  thanks to two wild young boys who won’t behave and a husband from whom she’s separated, and on the verge of divorcing. One immediate problem with this opening episode: The boys are such terrors, and their misbehavior so unaddressed, the viewer is all but forced to dislike and dismiss the parents as irresponsible, and the entire series as indefensible.

 
 
 
 
 
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