Friday, Dec. 21, 2001

Pasadena

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)