Boston Legal - Season One
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Movie Reviews of Boston Legal - Season One
Movie Review: Clever Fun
Summary: 5 Stars
"Lawyer shows" have been a staple of prime time TV for literally three generations.
There was Perry Mason in the 1950s and 1960s. The genre started with the inherent interest of people in conflict, and the intellectual energy and ability of these increibly clever people we call lawyers...
People we love to hate.
Then we had L.A.Law - the next generation. Again, incredibly clever people, joined by some people who have really poor morals, but who are great at getting their clients what they need. Sex, too.
More people we love to hate.
And now, in the new millenium, the biggest jerks are the most effective lawyers, it seems. The people who stop where they draw the ethical line are seen as nice but ineffective. In fact, the results-focused lawyers who bend the rules are somehow heroic in their "courage."
Winning is now everything - the first thing owed to the client.
Well, I guess that's how the adversarial system is essentially designed, and the result is great drama.
The writing is solid and the acting is great. Actually, to me, the weakness of the series is often cited as its greatest strength: Denny Crane. It's the words and work of all the others that I love to watch even more...
Movie Review: Here We Go...Hunky Dory!
Summary: 5 Stars
Right from the start you knew this spin-off of The Practise was going to be an award winner. The moment Edwin Poole walked into the meeting room trouserless!
So many opinions and reviews have been made of this first season, I'm not going to bother with an in depth review!
The basics:
Alan has dragged Tara along with him to Crane Poole and Schmidt, Boston's best law firm, reuniting with Sally Heap while making new "friends" along the way, ie Brad Chase, Lori Strong and Paul Lewiston.
A solid settling in period for the first six episodes and the David E Kelly introduces his master stroke, Shirley Schmidt!
After womanising all the female staff at CPS, Alan finally gets his chance with his suffering assistant Tara, but as she soon discovers, Alan is not what she was hoping for.
However it's all about Alan Shore and Denny Crane, their warm relationship and the cases that they work on, either individually or as a team.
And were we not annoyed when this first season was cut short so brutally to allow Greys Anatomy to start...
It all left us hanging, and totally disjointed the natural progression to season two, which had to spend five episodes to explain what had happened!
Movie Review: Elegant comedy! Serious drama!
Summary: 5 Stars
This one is the first Legal Boston I has ever watched (never I watched the Practice). It is a grace blow. I will be interested to see how the show holds up, as I watch ignited Season 2, but in the Season One storytelling really is tightened, acting is impressive, and you do not find a better mixture of the drama and the comedy that anywhere work through topical editions this side of James Brooks and Trey Parker.
James Spader plays lawyer-- the Alan Shore-- who uses each tactics of bad quality he barks to write down a victory. Within he is really a good person, but he cannot be stopped for him.
Whód has thought that Guillermo Shatner would be a new role of the signature like this so many years old after Kirk? The Denny Crane is laughing, fighting to maintain on its shrewdness then its mind of pre-Alzheimers deteriorates. Sad and amused.
And Candice Bergen is great. It brings the class and the beauty to the part of Schmidt. It has most of the dignity between the characters, but she knows to get down too.
Everyone in this show has a sense of humor, but they are die-serious on which they do it. And that one is the heart of him -- this perfect mixture of the elegant comedy and the serious drama.
Movie Review: The best show on TV you're probably not watching. (Part 1 of 5)
Summary: 5 Stars
If there is one thing that can be said about television shows, the smart ones are the ones that no one ever watches. When the emmys roll around its those shows that get the most credit and when they are canned and released on DVD they make the most money.
Boston Legal can only be summed up in one word...perfect. This show is a perfect blend of drama, suspence and comedy. The cases that are brought to the show every episode range from the topics that concern us every day all the way to some of the most bizzare that you never would beleive even existed in the real world. The best part about this show is the cast. This is a show that has brought famous names you probably haven't heard about in years. From Candice Bergen, Betty White the great William Shattner and James Spader who came out of no where! Each one gives a fantastic performance every time. The show also brings famous guest stars on to the show so there is never a dull moment.
I am so excited to get this dvd because it is one of the few televison shows on today that really gets the crowd going and keeps you excited for the next episode. I just hope that after the second season we will be seeing more of this show for years to come.
Movie Review: I overlooked this first time around - My Mistake!
Summary: 5 Stars
I did not watch this when it was on broadcast television. I figured it was 'another courtroom show' and was already overloaded by too many 'case a week' TV shows. I am now reveling in the ability to buy DVD sets of shows I missed. I watch them while playing on the computer in the evenings (but that's another story).
This show is wonderful. It's well written, well acted, dramatic and funny. I actually laugh out loud at the banter between the characters. Yes, there are courtroom scenes, there are cases, but they're not cases that are already in the news, they're sometimes serious, sometimes funny cases that act in partner with the attorneys - they're not the main focus of the show (in my mind).
If you like House, Grey's Anatomy, Deperate Housewives, you'll like this show. It is not another Law & Order. It's not that serious. I'm now purchasing Season 2 and looking forward to Season 3. Denny Crane (I hope I spelled that right!).