Body of Proof Season 3

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I liked the first two seasons, which I started watching because I have been attracted to Dana Delaney ever since “China Beach”. The incredibly beautiful and talented Jeri Ryan’s appearance as Kate Murphy was another plus because, as 7 of 9, she almost single-handedly rescued “Star Trek: Voyager” from mediocrity, but in the third season Delaney’s Megan Hunt has somehow morphed into a much more poisonous and disagreeable character than she was before, making her less easy to like or care about. Ryan/Kate’s totally out-of-character (and somehow ridiculous) one night stand – much too gratuitously and graphically filmed – with the mysterious Ukrainian assassin/rescuing hero Sergei (Ivan Sergei) is jarring, but then I’m not one of those who enjoys being made into a bedroom, peeping-tom voyeur. I suppose such scenes are thrown in to pump up the ratings because that’s what the viewing public wants, but they have the opposite effect on me, and it disappoints me that otherwise great actors are willing to participate in them – on sets full of film crew personnel. Such scenes aren’t exciting – they’re numbing and desensitizing and promote casual, meaningless sex as if they were advertising Happy Meals. With nothing left to the imagination, no imagination is any longer required – and all this stuff is available on prime time TV. Hard to believe the world was once shocked when Rhett Butler said to Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With The Wind”, “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”. Of course that was 1939, but I can’t honestly describe what we’re routinely seeing more and more of today as “progress”. Windell Middlebrooks as Curtis is – I hate to say it – an almost stereotypical joke that comes close to being racist by making him seem too much like Lincoln Perry’s character portrayal of the bumbling and stupid Stepin Fetchit from the 1930’s. Geoffrey Arend as Ethan Gross is, to put it as kindly as possible, a witless, obnoxious jerk of very low intellectual candle power. The scripts are, for the most part, quite good and entertaining. The characters – like Megan’s usually exasperating mother (Joanna Cassidy) – are, however, occasionally and sometimes always a bit problematic.

-David Bridge

As always, the lack of professionalism on the part of the ME bugs me. What ME does autopsies with her hair hanging all over the body? Really, people, how stupid do you think we are? If Delaney won’t put her hair in a scrub cap, then don’t show her working on bodies. It strains credulity that her fallen hair hasn’t compromised every investigation! Let her just strut around in her 4 inch heels and Alexander McQueen clothes looking pretty.

Overacting by the blonde ME boss. Love the rest of the characters!

– N. Dunn

The fact that I have been willing to watch this show says something. They got something right. Or maybe I’m just not too choosy when it comes to that late spring – early summer pause in original programming. What they don’t get right is sloppy writing (you can drive a truck through some of the leaps of logic), few characters to like (including the main character who is self-centered and very rude to everyone around her), the main character’s implausible rate of being right on the slightest evidence, and some characters disappear without explanation. Which brings me back to my original question…so why do I watch this?

-Billbo

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Dana Delany
Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: French, Spanish, English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. )
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 3
Studio: ABC
DVD Release Date: June 18, 2013
Run Time: 559 minutes