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Ally McBeal: The Complete Second Season

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The menus and navigating is a little awkward, but its the best we've got so I can't complain: I'm thrilled to see Ally again just as the episodes aired in good quality and with music in tact.

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****UPDATE 11/2011:
It seems Amazon has once again combined many reviews on various formats of this DVD into one. The above review I did a few years ago was for the Region 2 version of Ally which was the only Ally McBeal Season 2 DVD that contained the original music. This new version of the DVD that Amazon has put my review on is for the new Region 1 US Canada version that finally has the original music.

Not only has it taken FOX over a decade to finally get around to releasing this show for the American viewers but they release the box set first with no tentative dates for the individual seasons (save season one which I suppose they HAD to release at the same time as the box set just keep the uproar to a minimum). Its these actions of studios, like FOX, that encourage bootlegging and piracy which they claim to hate. Then they have the audacity to boast that these DVD's contain the "original" music. I'd like to be naive enough to say, "what else would they contain?" Of course, many times that is just the greed of the original music artists demanding too much money for something they did 10-15 years ago.

Ally McBeal was a romance comedy that took on some very controversial topics, even in today's society. Every episode builds on the last storyline between characters and new subject matter from new clients. There are always funny/sad events between the main characters, with some morality questions coming to my mind, which makes me consider other points of view than just my own. The show was very well written, and the actors did amazingly well portraying the individual quirks of their character.

Ally McBeal is one of the best series ever on TV. Season 2 does not disappoint.

the only problem i had with this dvd is that it only plays on a region free dvd play, i don't understand why an american series like this would only be recorded on a different region. thank you

All other standard dvds work fine with the blue ray player. I believe this to be a manufacturing error. When I realized that season 2 does not play, I tried season one with the same result. Great show, but can't watch it. :(

This was one of those quirky little shows set in a law firm. It uses its cases to set the mood for each episode but also relies on the peccadillos of its main characters to anchor the show. We have the wattle man, the Barbie doll, the nose noise man; even the unisex bathroom almost becomes a character.

Ally had once dated one of the other lawyers who works at the firm with his current wife which sets the mood for a lot of sexual tension. Ally is supposedly still in love with him though she manages to fall in love with most other hunky men who walk through her door.

As we move through the subsequent seasons we follow the loves and losses of most all of the Firms oddball ensemble cast. I can understand how the feminist movement pointed to this series with disdain. Ally was not an "I can do" female. In fact she was kind of an "I'm falling apart" type of gal. Sort of like me. Maybe that's why I'm so fascinated by this series.

It's too bad the music licensing issue keep this funny show out of the market for so long. There is a large current group of the purchasing public who will probably not buy this series because it's now just too old. I'm giving the same review to each year of the series because they're pretty much alike with interchangeable boyfriends and co-workers - but they're all good.....bg