"COPYCAT makes for a rapt viewing chiefly because of the excellent performances from the two leads. Weaver has that rousing stoical manfulness that could cow any man into capitulation, yet there is no trace of pretension or arrogance can be read on Helen's face, alternating eloquently between a professional and a victim, and sharing genuine bonhomie with Hunter, who makes a good fist of complementing Weaver's lofty stature with a dogged intensity both in her comportment and her action. At the same M. J. must ward off the micro-aggression being the only female inspector among her colleagues. Hunter navigates a delicate but totally credible way to imprint Helen's alterity on viewer's head space without falling back on stereotypes or platitudes (just watch the way she worms the truth out of a fellow policeman about who has arrived first on the crime scene, she is not just whip-smart, she has incomparable tact as well)."
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