With tonight’s series finale of Body of Proof on tap, it seems like as good a place as any to kick off our annual look back at the shows I watched that came to an end this past season. Body of Proof debuted on ABC in March of 2011 and took the House formula and slapped a new, female coat of paint on it, with Dana Delaney in the driver’s seat. Rather than surround her with doctors to question her, she had police officers who didn’t trust her until they did.
To me, Body of Proof never really clicked. That’s not to say that it was a bad show, but it never had that transcendent moment where it became a really good show. The crew of the medical examiner’s office, including Delaney and Jeri Ryan, were not the real problem with the show. The police side of things were where the show needed some work, and that was addressed somewhat in this third season with the addition of Mark Valley. I fear that it was too little, too late, though.