Hercules Says The Big Mystery Is How Anybody At NBC Thought It Was A Good Idea To Greenlight THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA!! Read the full article on AICN I am – Hercules!! Hankering for a bad sitcom masquerading as an idiotic procedural? The terrible “Mysteries of Laura” is the latest creation of writer-producer Jeff Rake, who earlier created 2002’s short-lived “The $treet” and 2004’s short-lived “Miss Match” and wrote six episodes of 2013’s short-lived “The Tomorrow People.” It stars Debra Messing (“Will & Grace,” “Smash”) as a single mom who solves a homicide every week. It’s way worse than it sounds. And of course something this awful had to be overseen by talent-challenged pretty-boy writer-producer Greg Berlanti, longtime “Dawson’s Creek” showrunner, writer of the “Green Lantern” movie, and creator of such craptastic one-season wonders as “Jack & Bobby,” “No Ordinary Family,” “Political Animals” and “The Tomorrow People.” (To be fair, Berlanti also co-created “Arrow,” which will probably run 11 seasons – but whose ratings would have gotten it booted after 11 episodes were it broadcast on any network but The CW.) Time says: ...