Cold Case (TV Series) Sherry Darlin' (2003) User Reviews

Silas Weir Mitchell Is an Underused and Underrated Actor

[jsrtheta · 8/10 · 23 July 2021]

Silas Weir Mitchell is one of those cliched "Hey, it's that guy!" faces. I've seen a number of shows in which he's been featured, and most of them seemed to play up a "weirdo" typecasting.

This episode indulges in the weirdo theme, too, but it also allows Mitchell to portray someone tortured by conscience and desperate to give pay a debt he thinks he owes. Over the course of the hour, Mitchell takes his time revealing his agony and, in the course of it, showing us a tortured man harried by his conscience while trying to be the man he wants to be.

So many great actors get hamstrung by pigeonholes they're forced into, the types they were cast for, without being allowed to stretch their acting chops. In this episode, Mitchell is allowed to show us the strangeness, sure, but also the twisted decency of a man whose life has left him stuck in one time. Ineffably sad, and heroic in an unconventional way.

I will continue to look for more of his work. This actor has a lot to give us. He deserves the chance to do so.

A predictable mystery and lost love gone bad

[Syn316 · 9/10 · 21 July 2006]

Agent Lilly Rush investigates an elderly woman's murder, suspecting the victim's grandson may have something to do with it. Turns out something more to the story than a case of possible family homicide. Catherine Morris gives a firm performance as Lilly Rush while interrogating the victim's grandson for further details. Silas Weir Mitchell plays the grandson and possible suspect James Hogan, who gives a brilliant performance, both chilling and convincing. It also combines a mystery/homicide with details of lost love of an ex-girlfriend from the past. Good show, very predictable, but worth watching if you want to remember your old first loves at youth.

Outstanding TV

[russ-craighead · 9/10 · 20 August 2022]

Stunningly good performance by Silas Weir Mitchell; one of the very best tv performances I've ever seen. Excellent writing and uniformly good performances by the rest of the cast.

Good storyline

[christie-ensley · 9/10 · 10 April 2020]

I liked the storyline , however it was very predictable.

huge casting gaffe: the older ....

[The_Melancholic_Alcoholic · 4/10 · 6 August 2008]

The older 2003 Sherry looks younger than the young 1989 Sherry.

Despite their supposedly 14 year age difference.

Also, from blond to brunette? It's possible but it serves no purpose and it isn't explained.

One could argue that she changed as Sherry got richer.

But how brunette makes for a better cleaned up well to do Sherry ... ? The casting on this show is very stupid at times.

ESPECIALLY for a show that relies on credible aged actors.

Silas does act very well in this one, though. But the whole lily is in love angle?? Came outta nowhere!!! Very low quality writing there.

Not one of the better Cold Cases, MAJOR SPOILERS

[greycat012 · 3/10 · 31 August 2009]

This '89 episode reminds me a lot of "Love Conquers All," another one I didn't care for. In this one a young boy falls in love with a girl that has been running from foster home to foster home all her life, and then lives with him and his grandma for 10 years because she can find nothing better than him to live off of.She slyly suggests grandma probably wants to die to him so they can live off what she leaves, and when he can't do it she takes over and smothers her with a pillow. Sick. Then because she's pretty cute, she marries a wealthy man and he's devastated over what he allowed to happen. Unlike the first poster, I thought the older Sherry did look older, and yeah, it's common for women to change their hair color within a certain shade range.

In the '81 episode, "Love Conquers All," boy and girl fall madly in love, boy does another girl before their relationship is consummated, and girl convinces boy to murder the offender girl so he can be "pure" again for her and she will be "erased." He pretends to take the "other girl" on a date and her head is smashed in with barbells by his lover and shot by him.

Do people actually commit such odd crimes of passion and aren't caught for years and years? The only good thing about these episodes is their use of 80s music. I loved REO Speedwagon and Billy Joel when I was young, both used in the '81 episode at the beginning and end.