Review: Noah Wyle gives a must-see performance in CBS’s occasionally clunky 'Red Line'
Noah Wyle gives a knockout performance as Daniel Calder in “The Red Line.” By Hank Stuever Hank Stuever TV critic Email Bio Follow TV critic April 25 at 10:00 AM “The Red Line” is a well-intentioned and sometimes beautifully acted CBS miniseries about race and justice that gets off to a clunky and heavy-handed start, with a string of coincidences that might shoo away a been-there/done-that type of viewer who has plenty else to watch. My advice, however, is to stick around.
That’s when a white police officer, Paul Evans , bursts through the door and — seeing a black man in a hoodie and a bleeding clerk — immediately shoots and kills the unarmed Brennan. The incident becomes a watershed event across the demographic chasms of Chicago . Harrison leaves behind a husband, Daniel Calder , and the couple’s teenage daughter, Jira , whom they adopted as an infant.
So much drama, which quickly becomes too much drama. “The Red Line’s” list of executive producers notably includes Greg Berlanti and Ava DuVernay and their effort, along with that of creators/writers Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss, certainly doesn’t lack heart, especially once you get past the first hour and its surplus of talking points.
Some viewers may welcome that; not everyone digs artistic ambiguity, especially in prime time. “The Red Line” is full of necessary arguments, particularly on the victim’s side — characters frequently say the “wrong” thing to other characters, which leads to an abundance of scenes where people apologize for what they said. For a TV drama, it’s a little too much talk about talk.
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