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1An American PoliceProcedural that has a team of female officers (Creator/BonnieBedelia, Creator/LelaRochon, Creator/NancyMcKeon, Creator/TraceyNeedham, Creator/LisaVidal, and Creator/TarajiPHenson) as they investigate cases while dealing with their personal lives.
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3The show also features Creator/DavidGianopoulos, Creator/JonHamm, Creator/AmyJoJohnson, Creator/JacobUrrutia, Creator/JRYenque, Creator/AlexRocco, Creator/DeanCain, and Creator/RobinThomas in supporting roles.
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5It aired on Creator/{{Lifetime}} for four seasons from January 7, 2001 to June 28, 2004.
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9!Tropes for the series:
10* TheAlcoholic: Jinny, whose career, life and [[spoiler:marriage]] all either come into ruin or near-ruin.
11* AlliterativeName: '''C'''hris '''C'''onklin.
12* AlliterativeTitle:
13** '''S'''weet '''S'''orrow.
14** '''C'''old '''C'''omfort.
15* DaChief: Capt. Kate [=McCafferty=].
16* DarkAndTroubledPast: Jinny, who found her mother's body after she committed suicide as a child and in the present has a nasty drinking problem.
17* DiesWideOpen: How Jinny's mother was found after shooting herself dead.
18* InTheBlood: Jinny comes from a family of cops, including her father and her two brothers.
19* OneWordTitle:
20** ''Pilot''.
21** ''Hero''.
22** ''Absolution''.
23** ''Obsessions''.
24** ''Redemption''.
25** ''Intervention''.
26** ''Shelby''.
27** ''Journey''.
28** ''Illusions''.
29** ''Remembrance''.
30** ''Testimonial''.
31** ''Strangers''.
32** ''Misdirection''.
33** ''Castaways''.
34** ''Diagnosis''.
35* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jinny delivers several to her family and friends during her intervention, which she calls a "witch-hunt" and goes off on their own shortcomings and hardships whilst not facing or admitting to her own. This stops with Magda calls her out on failing to back her up against a suspect due to her drinking, which almost got the former killed.
36* SpecialGuest: Creator/PeterCoyote in ''Brave New World'' and ''Secrets, Lies and Weddings''.
37* {{Tagline}}: "Five Women, One Code: Justice".
38* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: Angela and her husband clash over wanting to have a child. He wants one, but she doesn't given her family's history of breast cancer which claimed the lives of her mother, grandmother, and Aunt, refusing to leave her child motherless or passing the hereditary trait along to it.

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