So Help Me Todd

So Help Me Todd - CBS

CBS

Series

2022

TV14

Crime drama

Attorney Margaret Wright hires her scruffy son Todd as her law firm’s in-house investigator.

Matt Roush

Matt Roush says...

rating: 4.0 stars
4 out of 5 stars

At a time when so many nights are overrun with grim and formula crime dramas, Elsbeth and its playful Thursday night neighbor, the legal farce So Help Me Todd (starring Skylar Astin as a hapless private eye and Marcia Gay Harden as his uptight lawyer mother) are refreshing respites.

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