DAMAGES CONTROL Glenn Close can barely make her case as the creators dominate the commentary accompanying the DVD set of the legal thriller
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DAMAGES CONTROL Glenn Close can barely make her case as the creators dominate the commentary accompanying the DVD set of the legal thriller
DVD Review

Damages: Season 1 (2008)

Reviewed by | Feb 08, 2008
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Release Date: Jan 29, 2008; DVD Release Date: Jan 29, 2008; With: Glenn Close

Screw courtrooms. Damages, FX's legal thriller, virtually avoids them in 13 brilliantly structured episodes. We begin with the bloody end of a corporate-fraud case, and extended flashbacks reveal the shocking events that came before (think clandestine meetings on dark NYC streets). Golden Globe-winner Glenn Close is devastating as a malevolent diva lawyer out to nail a corrupt CEO (Ted Danson). Too bad the EXTRAS have no appeal. In a commentary, the show's creators barely let Close squeeze in any insight besides ''We made the decision to shock people.'' B+

Originally posted Feb 08, 2008 Published in issue #978 Feb 15, 2008 Order article reprints

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