Sometimes you can load a TV drama up with top stars, direct them to go around with serious expressions on their faces, and base the show on a series of grotesque, violent crimes, and somehow, the thing still comes across as run-of-the-mill and unpersuasive.
The drama seems forced in the new coroner-detective drama “Scarpetta” starring Nicole Kidman in the lead role as a crack coroner in northern Virginia. The character originated in a series of novels by Patricia Cornwell in which Kay Scarpetta is Italian-American.
