Boston Legal

[Biffette]

Whoops I meant sixth season.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Boston Legal was enjoyable. But that's the extent I'll go. It never knew if it wanted to be The Practice or a comedy, so it was extremely schizophrenic. In addition, they could never find a consistently strong cast outside Alan and Denny.

That being said, the Alan-Denny relationship was great. It made the show worthwhile. Every once in awhile they would have a great compelling episode to go with it, but they pulled it through even when they didn't.

Seriously, having Antonin Scalia marry Denny and Alan at the end was absolutely hysterical. Pretty much the perfect ending for a show that never knew where it wanted to go but could find a weird balance between serious and satire.

 

[Random_Spock]

Boston Legal was enjoyable. But that's the extent I'll go. It never knew if it wanted to be The Practice or a comedy, so it was extremely schizophrenic. In addition, they could never find a consistently strong cast outside Alan and Denny.

That being said, the Alan-Denny relationship was great. It made the show worthwhile. Every once in awhile they would have a great compelling episode to go with it, but they pulled it through even when they didn't.

Seriously, having Antonin Scalia marry Denny and Alan at the end was absolutely hysterical. Pretty much the perfect ending for a show that never knew where it wanted to go but could find a weird balance between serious and satire.

Yea I noticed that . It didn't bug me that much.

Generally watched the show for the Alan-Denny relationship. It cracked me up... 'Denny Crane... Denny Crane...'

They got married in the finale? I don't remember that... guess I'll have to go and find it and try and rent it sometime so I can watch it again.

 

[Trekker4747]

It was a marriage of convenience and financial gain more than it was having anything to do with romantic love. Alan gets to make medical decisions for Denny as he lapses more and more into his Alzheimer's/"Mad Cow" as well as be with his best-friend on his death bed. Alan gets to inherit Denny's money upon his death -without having to pay taxes on it, which he'd have to do if it was willed to him as a friend- and use that money for philanthropic purposes. (Towards the end, Alan suggested a desire to get out of profit-based law and to work pro-bono.)

In fact the penultimate episode (the first part of the two-hour series finale) dealt with Alan and Denny fighting a Massachusetts ADA on their marriage. The ADA suggested that Denny and Alan were trying to profiteer off of marriage -making same-sex marriage look bad and pretty much validating the same-sex marriage fears everyone has- while Alan claimed that the state has no place to vet the reasons two people decide to get married. The judge agreed -the dark-red haired female judge who appeared from time to time and maybe the only female in the series Alan didn't push himself on- and was even invited to marry Alan and Denny at Nemo Bay, that is until they ran into Scalia and asked him to marry them.

 

[Random_Spock]

It was a marriage of convenience and financial gain more than it was having anything to do with romantic love. Alan gets to make medical decisions for Denny as he lapses more and more into his Alzheimer's/"Mad Cow" as well as be with his best-friend on his death bed. Alan gets to inherit Denny's money upon his death -without having to pay taxes on it, if it was willed to him as a friend- and use that money for philanthropic purposes. (Towards the end, Alan suggested a desire to get out of profit-based law and to work pro-bono.) In fact the penultimate episode (the first part of the two-hour series finale) dealt with Alan and Denny fighting a Massachusetts' ADA on their marriage. The ADA suggested that Denny and Alan were trying to profiteer off of marriage -making same-sex marriage look bad and pretty much validating the same-sex marriage fears everyone has- while Alan claimed that the state has no place to vet the reasons two people decide to get married. The judge agreed -the dark-red haired female judge who appeared from time to time and maybe the only female in the series Alan didn't push himself on- and was even invited to marry Alan and Denny at Nemo Bay, that is until they ran into Scalia and asked him to marry them.

Well that makes sense. For those two . It's good that they did just that, considering Denny's 'mad cow'. It'll be a good thing for him and monitarily wise a good thing for Alan.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Boston Legal was enjoyable. But that's the extent I'll go. It never knew if it wanted to be The Practice or a comedy, so it was extremely schizophrenic. In addition, they could never find a consistently strong cast outside Alan and Denny.

That being said, the Alan-Denny relationship was great. It made the show worthwhile. Every once in awhile they would have a great compelling episode to go with it, but they pulled it through even when they didn't.

Seriously, having Antonin Scalia marry Denny and Alan at the end was absolutely hysterical. Pretty much the perfect ending for a show that never knew where it wanted to go but could find a weird balance between serious and satire.

I loved the schizophrenia of the show and found it a great balance between Ally MacBeal which was too far off the beam to enjoy for me and the Practice which was great drama and the best of the three shows in many ways. Navigating between the comedy of Ally and the drama of The Practice is something it did rather well, imo.