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I'm sorry that your kids are sick, but I really don't want to read through two paragraphs of BS thinkint that there's a tie-in with the TV show only to find out that you didn't do the review. In the future, just lead with the relevant information so as not to wast people's time.

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"Needless to say I'm a bit tired, and that's why you haven't seen a review of Boston Legal from me this week . . . So, I am relying on you, proud readers of TV Squad, to tell me what happened on this week's show."

Are you kidding me? Maybe TVS should hire someone who has the energy and capacity to review shows and blog here for chrissakes.

I'd be glad to review it, but please send me a salary first.

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Aperently the internet brings out the assholes in a lot of us...

Richard, i hope your kids get over the bug they are battling quickly!

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Wow, what a bunch of asshole posters....
nothing like sick kids, and I don't watch Boston Legal; I just wanted to give you some comfort in that you are not alone with the sick kid gripes. Nothing like having to drop out of a raid in WoW because the kid decides it's a good time to puke. Oxyclean works, but you gotta keep at it.

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I forgot to watch the first 10 minutes, I always forget it's on.

And the show is just getting bad.

What's her name from Ed has sex with everyone.
Denney has sex, so does his friend.
They make fun of how dumb the government is.
They add more new charaters and completely screw over Betty White. Honestly they need to fire like half the actors on the show. I think what they realized is that come next season they will fire most of them anyways so you might as well add lots now.

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Here's what happened:

As usual, someone in the firm -- in this case the new lawyer who was added for no apparent reason -- takes one side of an issue in which both sides have valid points, gives a preachy closing in which the client is made to look like a saint and "the system" is shown to be at fault, and wins the case. (The client is an overworked teacher who's being sued by the parents of a boy who died from taking a bite of a candy bar with peanuts in it; the teacher knew about his allergy but was on her cell phone and didn't see it happen. In a ridiculous twist meant to unfairly raise our sympathy for the teacher, it turns out that the phone call was informing her that her father died!)

In other news, the hot chick from "Ed" is sleeping with both of the beefy frat boys but not Alan, who's still hitting on her; she hears that if she makes an aggressive move on him he'll back off, but of course that doesn't work. He tosses her onto her desk but, unlike in the movie "Secretary," nothing else happens.

Oh, and the name "Dennis Crane" has been added to airline no-fly list (because it's also the name of a potential terrorist), so Alan goes to court and once again makes a self-important government guy look like a total butthead. He makes a good point about how they should be able to differentiate between passengers using other criteria than just their names, and an awful point about how the creation of government technology should be left to people like Steve Jobs. The case enables Denny to fly off to Hawaii to meet Suzanne Sugarbaker, but before he can leave he's tackled once again by her little-person daughter.

Last but not least, the transvestite guy comes in as Oprah and counsels his/her boss, who would like us to forget that she played the hot punk chick in "Good Morning, Miami," to throw out her businesswear and show her boobs more, just like all female attorneys other than Candice Bergen do in David E. Kelley shows. She agrees that, as a female lawyer in a firm rife with sexual harassment, she can only find personal fulfillment by looking more like a slut.

Then David E. Kelley takes Michelle Pfeiffer to bed and lives happily ever after.

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The final scene has Bethany confronting Denny in front of the elevators. She asks him to dinner and he tells her he's catching a plane. She realizes he's meeting up with her Mom. Sadly, she walks away. Only to return a few moments later with a tackle that would make Brian Urlacher proud. She tells Denny that Bella better watch her back.

It was a great scene!

I hope your kids get better soon.

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I'm sorry your kids are sick, but WTF?

You can't sit down at your home computer and but a few paragraphs together?

I hope no one else at your home gets sick, or you get your carpet cleaned, or you forgot to take out the trash, or whatever. I'd like to see a review mext week.

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Man, there are some seriously cold--and clearly childless--people who watch Boston Legal. Jesus.

Sorry about the Vomit Express, Richard, and I hope the surgery goes all right.

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I'm not going to speculate on anything here, but I'm going to go ahead and assume that writing for TV Squad isn't quite the same as writing for the New York Times, and that Richard is not making a hefty salary for posting his recaps/reviews on this site. I think people who frequent the internet don't understand that it's not the same as "conventional media" and it probably never will be.

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If I am counting correctly this is David E. Kelley trainreck number 3 (1 was Picket Fences, 2 was Ally McBeal) - I didn't think Season 3 would the one that stunk up the place, but its happening.

They've added 3 people to cast so far this year and they're not really working, Craig Bierko has had around 5 lines over the past 3 episodes - his story is trying to date/sleep with Denise.
Clair Simms (Constance Zimmer) is now relegated to handling the transvestite who joined the cast (Gary Anthony Williams), and while I do like the story line and the humor of Gary Anthony Williams - I don't see it going far, so he'll be dropped by the end of the season no doubt probably with Zimmer and Bierko.

Then we have the current cast members being misused, Denise is just some sexual nexus in the office, Rene Auberjonois hasn't had many lines in a long time and Brad Chase is just trying to sleep with Denise.

They've got guest star who will probably join the cast soon enough but I doubt will last long.

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Where is Betty White? Come on! Five people have joined the cast over the last 2 years and she can't be one of them? She actually has a character with places to go - not these "suits" where lines could come from either one of them and it wouldn't matter at all.

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The transvestite has to go.It's really bringing the show down,rapidly.The case(Denny being on the no-fly list) was pretty interesting.I think the only way to save the season is to have Denny shoot the transvestite between the legs with his 38-special.

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"I'd be glad to review it, but please send me a salary first."
i'm with you, macguffin.
It was a good ep...memorable moments beyond the fantastically heavy inuendos and grounded drama of the case against the teacher (SPOILERS) not limited to Bethany tackling Denny, Denny Crane and Alan Shore- nuts about America, Denny Crane- not a terrorist but surrounded by guns, Alan's "get the steves" closing, Oprah, Alan calling Denise's bluff and throwing her on the desk (dirty! but did they?), "tell Sally she was WRONG"...

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Thanks to TedSez for the summary, thanks to Richard for many good posts, and BOO to all you heartless folks for dumping on Richard. We come here for free to read what he says, and get rude? Very Ugly, very sad.

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Love the show. The plot lines seem to be getting thinner and thinner. I was a lawyer for thirty years and I keep wondering how it is that they never lose a case. Too much sex, not enough substance.
Thank you for reviewing the show (I missed it too because I had a meeting). I have nothing to pay you with but my great thanks.

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Hi

My first post here.

I got hooked on "The Practice" during its last season because of James Spader.

"Boston Legal" is still good for me, but the problem has always been finding additional characters that live up to
Spader and Shatner's chemistry.

As far as plots go, I think the story lines are just there to provide fodder for satire. It is in the final analysis a comical parody of a legal show, sort of
"What if Perry Mason were a lecherous womanizer with a variety of fetishes that tortured his private life and yet still was able to win virtually every case?"

Who cares if they have to fire half the cast next season. (Hopefully there will be one!)
They've done it before.

The "Hot Blond Chick" has only been there for a season and a half.

Hope your kinds are well soon.

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I LOVE THIS SHOW ONE OF THE VERY BEST ON TV, SHATNER AND SPADER PLAY OFF OF EACH OTHER SO WELL, THEY ARE PERFECT TOGETHER, LIKE CROCKETT AND TUBBS FROM MIAMI VICE. I HOPE THIS SHOW HAS A LONG RUN. FOR THOSE OF U WHO DONT LIKE DONT WATCH IT. THATS WHAT CHANNEL CHANGERS WERE MADE FOR.

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