The Mysteries of Laura (NBC)

Debra Messing (“Will & Grace”) stars as Laura Diamond, a brilliant NYPD homicide detective who balances her “Columbo” day job with a crazy family life that includes two unruly twin boys and a soon-to-be ex-husband (Josh Lucas) – also a cop – who just can’t seem to sign the divorce papers. Between cleaning up after her boys and cleaning up the streets, she’d be the first to admit she has her “hot mess” moments in this hilariously authentic look at what it really means to be a “working mom” today. Somehow she makes it all work with the help of her sexy and understanding partner, and things get even more complicated when her husband ironically becomes her boss at the precinct. For Laura, every day is a high-wire balancing act.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkN7P08_oYM

She’s a no-nonsense homicide detective! She’s a single mom of two boys! She brings home the bacon AND fries it up in a pan! She’s every woman!
Debra Messing looks so uncomfortable doing any of the things that a TV cop is supposed to be a natural doing: talking tough, pointing and shooting a gun, punching out the bad guy…all look so forced when she does it. And everything else about this show is just so cringe inducing from the dialogue to the revealing the culprit at a funeral who just so happens to be her boss…it’s like this show was written by a room full of monkeys.