The Vancouver Sun - November 20, 19971

"Entertainment Best Bets"

Major Crime is grim and unrelenting, but anyone willing to stay the course over the two-night airing of this four-hour CBC mini- series (Sunday and Monday, both nights at 8 p.m.) will be rewarded.

The story is a dramatic and realistic account of an understaffed unit of Metropolitan Toronto police officers trying to find and convict a suspected serial child molester.

Former Law & Order district attorney Michael Moriarty delivers an eccentric, very un-Law & Order-like performance as lead detective Gordon Tallas, a burned-out police veteran down on his luck and deep into the bottle.

The supporting cast is uniformly fine. It includes Traders' David Cubitt as the suspected molester, Megan Follows as the inexperienced Crown prosecutor handed the case and Nicholas Campbell as an undercover officer who befriends the suspect.

Source: The Vancouver Sun