BODY OF PROOF “Hunting Party” Review

BODY OF PROOF “Hunting Party” Season 2 Episode 2 – Five people go hunting in the woods, but only four make it out alive in “Hunting Party,” this week’s episode of Body of Proof. Apparently those orange jackets don’t work if someone is trying to kill you in order to keep you from revealing that they’ve embezzled millions of dollars.

The victim this week was a rare creature, a trophy wife with a heart of gold, who was bumped off (along with her unborn child) while deer hunting with her husband, his older kids and his financial manager. Megan suspects the husband right away, but when it turns out he’s a close friend of the mayor, Kate pulls her off the case. Is there ever a rich suspect who isn’t a friend of the mayor? Honestly, can you even tell me who the mayor of your city is? Unless you live in LA or NYC, probably not.

But Megan’s new assignment, a murdered man in an alley, leads right back to her first case when her latest victim turns out to be the father of the murdered wife’s child. It’s just a red herring though; the husband couldn’t have more kids, wanted his new wife to be a mother and gave her permission to use a sperm donor. She chose her best gay friend…a decision that got him murdered, too, when she uncovered the financial manager’s embezzlement.

Of course, instead of slapping his former friend with a civil lawsuit, the distraught husband chooses the oh-so-dramatic option of shooting him in the middle of a room full of cops. Brilliant. And by the way, I have to pass through a metal detector to get into the grocery store, but TV writers still think crazy people can stroll into police stations with guns?

I’m not sure this show is growing on me and a lot of my reluctance to like it is based on the fact that I sort of can’t stand Megan. Maybe it’s the lingering personality changes that came after her head trauma, but I find her grating, to say the least, in particular her need to create conflict with Kate. At this point, I would rather watch Kate review paperwork than follow Megan around the M.E. office. And I don’t just say that because I’m a Star Trek fan and I love Seven of Nine.

Body of Proof certainly isn’t out to break any television molds. But really…shouldn’t it want to be better than it is?

What did you think of the episode? Do you take sugar in your herbal tea? And wouldn’t you rather emulate Kate if you had Megan as a mother? Let me know below!