Terminal City, Canterbury's Law
One show crosses the border; the other pushes the pee line
"I can't do this," he says. "The case?" she responds. "No, pee." But she's not heartless, turning on the sink, looking up and muttering, "Oceans, rivers, streams, oceans, rivers, streams ... "
Of course, she wouldn't be a prime-time protagonist in this day and age without an unresolved element in her past that will rear its ugly head conveniently for sweeps. In this case, it's the unexplained disappearance of her young son years ago, which has put a strain on things at home with her husband, played by a bearded, almost totally domesticated Aidan Quinn. (He can't hide those flinty Irish baby blues, though.) But the indignant heart of Canterbury's Law is that of a case-of-the-week procedural — a suitably suspenseful one at that — and within those institutional boundaries it's nice to see Margulies shake off the martyrish mien of Nurse Carol Hathaway on ER for somebody whose self-destructiveness gives her a nasty, intelligent severity at work.
TERMINAL CITY | Sundance Channel | Thursdays, 9 p.m., with repeats Fridays, 2 a.m. and Sundays, 10 a.m., premieres March 6
CANTERBURY'S LAW | Fox | Mondays, 8 p.m., premieres March 10
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