Customer Reviews

Boston Legal - Season One

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3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

I've been a Judge for the past 12 years. Often when selecting a jury the attorneys will ask the jurors "who watches Boston Legal?" Attorneys laugh and say "well this is not TV this is reality." I want to jump off the bench and yell "so is much of Boston Legal", but I can't. Boston Legal is a real hoot. For any attoney who has worked in a large law firm you can see many of the same people you work with in the Boston Legal characters. Denny Crane is the man and I can assure you that many of his likes exist in the legal system. They are a royal pain to Judges. You either love them or dislike them. Great story lines and wonderful casting keeps this Judge smiling.

This show gets better and better and better each week (each minute). And that's a frightening thought, since it started out so good in the first place. In each episode, they find a way to touch you intellectually and emotionally - culminating in the brilliant balcony epilogues with Denny and Alan. I'd love to see a feature on the dvd sets where you can play all of those balcony epilogues in a row. This show is a creative milestone and deserves to be rewarded as such. (and thank God somebody finally figured out how to write for Shatner. Denny Crane is his crowning achievement, the best work he's ever done -- and yet he makes it look so easy.) Buy the dvds, catch up, and then get in on this show now, before someone stupid cancels it.

A Peabody award for 2nd season and rightly so!! I'm 65 and beside West Wing and Commander In Chief (both going off the air, I guess) this show is always a don't miss and if it's a repeat, watch it again. I often fall asleep before I can finish it due to the many commercial interruptions so I gave up and tape all the shows now and watch again with the fast forward button for those annoying commercials. GREAT SHOW!!! The entire cast is superb but Spader and Shatner are the stars just because of their chemistry and the GREAT WRITING!! Can't wait for the second season to come out on DVD as well! I don't buy TV shows, except for the British "Keeping Up Appearances" but this is a definite purchase!!! Can't wait to get it and watch the entire first season without interruption!!

Some TV shows over the last few years have reached great heights in drama, comparable to what's been achieved in the world's best literature. Boston Legal is the top of the current crop.

There's a competition going on between the big media companies to attract that group of people who used to enjoy the West Wing and the Sopranos. Boston Legal catches us with bringing political debate down to the individual level at which it plays. It brings a new type of drama especially in the relationship between Crane and Shore. The talent of its actor pool is of such quality that the script can rely on their non verbal skills to make the critical points. Despite their extravagance and eccentricity these are solid and very convincing human characters, they shine through their flaws so much more than through traditional polish perfection.

Boston Legal has set a whole new standard in television excellence. Whatever comes next has to exceed Boston Legal, has to take all this forward. We live in this absurd, dangerous and crazy world in which our fate in progress has been undermined, but not when it comes to literature, drama and art. If there's anyone left alive a thousand years from now they will sit down for a showing of Boston Legal and enjoy it as the Cicero and Vergil of our times.

Think I'm too "laud"? You might not have watched this show.

Denny Crain. That's all that really needs to be said, but I'll add a few comments. Boston Legal is a show that everyone in my extended family just LOVES, from my 14 year old neice to my 88 year old father. It gets taped every week for those who had to miss an episode for one reason or another. The reason, I believe, is that BL talks about big ideas/issues of the day, but not with an obvious slant. Further, the show exhibits an offbeat sensibility which is refeshing and rare on network television. Finally, most of the characters (and the actors portaying them) have a lot of charm and an easy chemistry between them.

I absolutely love "Boston Legal" but I won't feel like I'm getting the whole story until the studio releases the final season of "The Practice." That's where James Spader originated the Alan Shore character and made it his own. Spader, William Shatner, & Betty White all were nominated for Emmys that year for the characters we've come to love on "Boston Legal." (Spader & Shatner won). Come on, studios! Give us the prelude to the greatest show on TV!!!!

What a joy is Boston Legal, the cast is a dream, the writing is superb. This show combines humor, drama, current events and a bit of lunacy. It's intelligent, quirky...highly entertaining and thought provoking. It is such a pleasure to see the gifted James Spader doing amazing work every week...and Candice Bergen is fantastic, as well as William Shatner.

Finally, the 1st season of Boston Legal arrives on DVD! This is something that my co-workers, friends, family, and I have been looking forward to for quite awhile. Boston Legal is easily one of the best shows put together. The acting, writing, and visual production far exceeds 99% of anything else out there... current or past. The characters portrayed by James Spader and William Shatner are the best 1-2 combo around, and they are followed up by a tremendous supporting cast. I only hope more people will continue following the show so that more and more seasons are signed up for and produced!

What's so great about this show... wow, where to begin. The acting, the scripts, the chemistry... I could go on. The best part about 'Boston Legal' is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. Can't wait till May 23rd.

Clever, funny, mind provoking, well written, wonderful cast.
How were we so lucky to actually get something worth watching on network tv!