The Closer: Season Five Premiere

By Leigh H. Edwards

As The Closer evolves both formally and thematically, Brenda and her team are forced to reflect on their own assumptions and actions. [8 June 2009]

The Closer: The Complete Fourth Season

By Andrew Winistorfer

Ninety percent of the show’s fireworks happen in the interrogation room, where Johnson reigns, and we never get a whiff of the court room. [20 May 2009]

The Closer: Season Four Return

By Leigh H. Edwards

The fourth season return of The Closer finds fresh ways to mine the tensions between work and private life endured by LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick). [26 January 2009]

The Closer

By Leigh H. Edwards

In The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda Johnson often walks a fine line between complex and irritating. [21 July 2008]

The Closer: The Complete Third Season

By Jennifer Kelly

Johnson is a new breed of television heroine: smart, driven, successful and about three-eighths of an inch away from unlikeable. [16 July 2008]

The Closer - The Complete Second Season

By Leigh H. Edwards

Deputy Police Chief Brenda Lee Johnson cracks cases because she knows what makes cracked people tick. [19 June 2007]

The Closer

By Cynthia Fuchs

At the office this season, Brenda faces ongoing budget issues that threaten to break up the team she spent two TNT seasons convincing they were a team. [18 June 2007]

The Closer

By Lesley Smith

The premiere of The Closer was a very good moment for women who watch women on the small screen. [13 July 2005]

40something (and up) women are taking over cable TV [6 August 2007]