EPISODE
SEASON
Picket Fences - Season 1
An aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.
29 August 1952, Schenectady, New York, USA
2 January 1979, Los Angeles County, California, USA
29 October 1954, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
22 April 1943, Richmond, Virginia, USA
23 October 1982
24 October 1945, USA
9 October 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 August 1977, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
31 December 1962, Hockley, England, UK
20 April 1948, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
2 December 1914, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
2 July 1949, Texas, USA
9 October 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 14, 2019
Perhaps the show's willingness to disregard realism is best exemplified in Finkel's marvelous character, which seems to represent every defendant, every litigant before Judge Bone... A real find.
June 14, 2019
The elements that made L.A. Law such a great show are all here - the characters you care about, the quirkiness, the comedy, the pathos, the drama. As a matter of fact, this is the best new drama of the year.
June 14, 2019
Picket Fences is what Twin Peaks could have been if David Lynch hadn't gone recklessly over the top. It's a delicious casserole of the ridiculous and the sublime; a show with heart, soul, wit and intelligence; suspenseful one minute, loony the next.
June 13, 2019
The drama is more ponderous and the humor a good deal more forced. Despite the program's artificially, it is atmospheric and flashy.
June 14, 2019
The acting was decent, and the writing was okay when it wasn't shoving the writer's political beliefs down your throat, but ultimately Picket Fences was a show made for its time alone.
June 14, 2019
[Featured] some game performances -- especially by Tom Skerritt as Rome's sheriff and Ray Walston as its judge -- but the soft CBS style and Kelley's love of the wacky throws off the tone.
June 14, 2019
It's this combination of the societal and the personal that makes Picket Fences one of the more intriguing family shows ever made.
June 14, 2019
The show is labeled a "one-hour drama," but that's a misnomer. There's never been an hour of Picket Fences that wasn't interrupted by sophomoric farce or nonsense.
June 14, 2019
Irritating as it may frequently be, however, Picket Fences also seems the new fall drama most likely to become habit-forming. You may love it, you may hate it, but you're liable to be hooked.
June 14, 2019
David E. Kelley, former executive producer of L.A. Law, blends the black humor of that success with a splash of David Lynch's Twin Peaks sensibility to create the season's best series.
June 14, 2019
Socking and noteworthy, but it's the little funny moments throughout that really make the show, not the shock sight gags.
June 13, 2019
Picket Fences clearly aims to be a kinder, gentler [Twin] Peaks, but the goosey, paradoxical mood for which it strives -- heartwarming creepiness -- is, at this point, more of a turnoff than a turn-on.
