Boston Legal with its cast of outrageous, hilarious characters is a show I’m going to miss a lot once it’s off the air. The show slips in nuggets of wisdom from one-line sentences, or from trial summations, frequently providing food for thought. The writers of the show are brilliant, the producer and writer, David E. Kelley, is brilliant, and the actors are perfectly cast. Oh, yes, I like the show. Please tell me that there won’t be another dreadful dumb reality show replacing it.
Speaking of reality shows, an old episode had Catherine (Betty White) beautifully playing a mentally-disturbed nuisance. She was fired and returns of her own accord. She manages to set things up so that without her business as usual is difficult until Shirley returns. She’s scheming all the time to stay. Finally something she says makes sense to one of the lawyers – Catherine is bored and wants quality tv for those over 50. They go to trial to sue some tv networks for the dumb shows that cater to a certain age. Catherine’s lawyer explains to judge and jury that the dumb reality shows are necessary because the generations brought up techie-style can’t simply sit and enjoy a show; they have other things in hand, e.g., iPod, laptop, small DVD allowing them to watch a movie while viewing a tv program, etc. This being the case some networks see no reason to put quality first. Unfair. They won – ha ha – it was funny. Hmm! But is it true?
That was on a lighter side. Some of Boston Legal’s shows get to the nitty gritty of politics and all that that word encompasses, heavy issues of daily life, and everything in between.
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