EPISODE
SEASON
Picket Fences - Season 1
An aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.
7 March 1947, Loma Linda, California, USA
31 March 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 August 1948, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
18 August 1916, Highspire, Pennsylvania, USA
20 October 1927, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
4 May 1961, Van Nuys, California, USA
29 November 1964, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
June 14, 2019
The elements that made L.A. Law such a great show are all here - the characters you care about, the quirkiness, the comedy, the pathos, the drama. As a matter of fact, this is the best new drama of the year.
June 14, 2019
David E. Kelley, former executive producer of L.A. Law, blends the black humor of that success with a splash of David Lynch's Twin Peaks sensibility to create the season's best series.
June 14, 2019
[Featured] some game performances -- especially by Tom Skerritt as Rome's sheriff and Ray Walston as its judge -- but the soft CBS style and Kelley's love of the wacky throws off the tone.
June 14, 2019
Picket Fences is what Twin Peaks could have been if David Lynch hadn't gone recklessly over the top. It's a delicious casserole of the ridiculous and the sublime; a show with heart, soul, wit and intelligence; suspenseful one minute, loony the next.
June 14, 2019
Perhaps the show's willingness to disregard realism is best exemplified in Finkel's marvelous character, which seems to represent every defendant, every litigant before Judge Bone... A real find.
June 14, 2019
It's this combination of the societal and the personal that makes Picket Fences one of the more intriguing family shows ever made.
June 13, 2019
Picket Fences clearly aims to be a kinder, gentler [Twin] Peaks, but the goosey, paradoxical mood for which it strives -- heartwarming creepiness -- is, at this point, more of a turnoff than a turn-on.
June 14, 2019
The acting was decent, and the writing was okay when it wasn't shoving the writer's political beliefs down your throat, but ultimately Picket Fences was a show made for its time alone.
June 14, 2019
Socking and noteworthy, but it's the little funny moments throughout that really make the show, not the shock sight gags.
June 14, 2019
Irritating as it may frequently be, however, Picket Fences also seems the new fall drama most likely to become habit-forming. You may love it, you may hate it, but you're liable to be hooked.
June 14, 2019
The show is labeled a "one-hour drama," but that's a misnomer. There's never been an hour of Picket Fences that wasn't interrupted by sophomoric farce or nonsense.
June 13, 2019
The drama is more ponderous and the humor a good deal more forced. Despite the program's artificially, it is atmospheric and flashy.