Stephen Carrow (Treat Williams), a highly respected physician whom the church elders vote their man of the year. Jenny Moran (Harden) plays the organ at a trendy church attended by Dr. In Part 1, things move very slowly and yet fairly surely as the story unfolds. The violence in "Guilty Hearts" is restrained, and the story is not so much sordid as it is sad - in fact, heartbreakingly sad, thanks to the central performance of Marcia Gay Harden as a small-town church organist drawn into a sinister doctor's scheme to kill his wife. "Guilty Hearts," airing tomorrow and Wednesday night at 9 on Channel 9, is a bizarre film about a morbidly wacky real-life murder case, but at least it is not marred by excessive violence or the kind of depressing cynicism that was once part of the genre. CBS describes its latest miniseries as a "true crime love story." As opposed, of course, to a "true love crime story." True crime stories, with or without love, were for years the most popular kind of miniseries drama, wallowing in violence and explicit gore.
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