“So Help Me Todd” was abruptly cancelled last season, leaving fans in the lurch about the characters, their relationships and the future of their world.
Surprising? Not on network television. Other series have stopped without closure and then left executives scratching their heads when the replacement series got worse ratings.
“Todd” held promise, particularly since it bridged two generations.
Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin had fun playing a mother/son team investigating cases in her blue-chip law firm in Portland.
Astin’s Todd wasn’t exactly dealing from the top of the deck. He lost his license as an investigator and didn’t know where to turn. Mom usually bailed him out but now she was in a “situation”: her husband had disappeared.
Together, Todd brought mom up to speed with new technology; Mom gave Todd the credibility to branch out on his own.
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Created by Scott Prendergast and loosely based on his own life, the series fit well in the CBS family – not too taxing but filled with enough mystery to keep a viewer engaged.