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Article: FALL TV; TODAY'S PREMIERE; Home' gets close, at moments

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October 4, 2005
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"CLOSE TO HOME"

9 tonight, CBS (Channel 58)

If you turn a clich on its head, do you get a whole new clich?

I'm asking because, 50 years after the 1950s vision of suburbia as a little bit of heaven on Earth, we're up to our ears in depictions of those same pretty houses and green lawns as breeding grounds for desperate housewives, drug-dealing moms and all manner of domestic dysfunction.

Take the print ads for CBS' newest drama, featuring star Jennifer Finnigan ("Committed," "Crossing Jordan") in front of a clothesline hung with a bloodstained T-shirt.

"Prosecutor Annabeth Chase," the copy fairly snarls, "has discovered crime has a new address: Close to Home.' " In other words, welcome to the ...

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