Underpromoted and endlessly pre-empted, Fox's twisted rich-family saga is harder to find than Dick Cheney's secret secure location. But intrepid viewers are rewarded with a great cast (including Dana Delany, Martin Donovan and Philip Baker Hall) in a darkly funny story of a powerful media clan with a skeleton perhaps literally in its walk-in closet. Not everything in Pasadena, we learned, smells like roses.
(Fox)
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