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Reviewed by:
Gregg Braverman

Now that all the big-city criminal investigators are cracking the whip, suburbia is next to fall victim to crimes more insidious than a $7 mocha. Luckily there's another new felony-buster on the block: recently mom-ified prosecutor Annabeth Chase (Jennifer Finnigan), who is as resolute in making the streets safe in her quiet hamlet as she is in keeping her lips glossed. Adjusting to a working mother's schedule, Chase relies on her husband (Christian Kane) and boss (Steve Sharpe) to contribute as much encouraging advice as can be wrung from a straining script. Contrived cases jive with the love-conquers-all message threading Home, but still feel like they were ripped from the headlines of a newspaper in a ripped-from-the-headlines Lifetime original movie. Luckily, a time slot rarely maximized means CBS has time to recognize the flaws in its three-dimensionally human protagonist. As for now, with Chase on the job, at least suburbanites can rest easy knowing the city is so hard at work locking up domestic abusers, their minor tax evasion will probably go unnoticed.

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