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Canterbury's Law
SERIES: Fox, Monday/Friday 8:00p (60 minutes)

Canterbury's Law
Critic Score
Metascore: 67 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.0 out of 10
based on 27 reviews
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Starring Julianna Margulies, Ben Shenkman, Keith Robinson, Trieste Kelly Dunn, and Aidan Quinn

Julianna Margulies returns to serial television as a lawyer who fights for justice even as her personal life is a mess.

GENRE(S): Drama
CREATED BY: Dave Erickson
FIRST AIR DATE: March 10, 2008

Moved from original Monday, 8:00p time slot to Friday, 9:00p time slot 28 Mar 2008.

What The Critics Said

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83
Christian Science Monitor Gloria Goodale
This is a good, old-fashioned legal procedural with few special effects but quite a lot of serious, adult writing.
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83
Entertainment Weekly Ari Karpel
Julianna Margulies now gets to command the screen in something juicier than the usual procedural. [14 Mar 2008, p.70]
80
LA Weekly Robert Abele
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.
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80