Boston Legal: Tea and Sympathy

please---does anyone know who "Poole" is?? will he or she someday appear out of the blue i will appreciate an answer. thx

Solid episode from start to finish - and Brad's speech was some of the best work I've ever seen Mark Valley do - and I'm a fan, but it was so......spot on. As for the Clarence/Jerry showdown, it was one of the best moments of the season, and for a fan of the show, one of the highlights of the entire series.

I too am glad ABC renewed it - it is one of those shows that just gets better and better.

I've been liking Boston Legal more and more in the last few weeks and I think most of that has to do with the fact more of this great cast is being used. We've had more of Julie Bowen, Mark Valley, and Rene Auberjonois in the past few weeks than we've had all year. I even liked Brad's little speech about why he wanted to wear his uniform. And while I certainly don't agree that Americans may be turn anti-Military (I won't get into my whole anti-Iraq War does not equal anti-Military cause nobody cares, right?) I think Denise's reasons for not wanting her husband to wear his uniform were silly, but then they were meant to be. I know I've said this before, but I am so glad ABC renewed this series.

David Kelley already addressed the departure from the law (although many lawyers definitely felt that like The Practice, for instance, was legally accurate) on an episode earlier this season—if we weren't supposed to be human in the courtroom, we wouldn't have juries.

That's a really important point. If we were just trying to follow the law, point blank, we would only need a judge (or, perhaps, not even a judge). Trials are about providing a human interpretation of a static, mechanical system.

@BigTed:

I agree totally. That was always my big complaint with Ally McBeal (another DEK product), that nobody ever touched a law book or cite precedent.

At the same time, there was the much better Family Law, where the lawyers would cite rulings and precedents back and forth at each other like a fierce ninja star battle -- it was intense!

Then you watch Ally McBeal, and the only argument is like, "What kind of country do we live in where a person can't be free to ..." or "Look in your hearts and ask yourself if she doesn't deserve ..."

That's not a law drama, it's a telenovela -- and a sloppy one at that. You'd think Kelley would have learned, but apparently not ...

One thing that bugged me about this episode -- and bothers me about "Boston Legal" in general -- is that in both cases, the lawyers on either side didn't say a word about the laws themselves. All they did was argue what they thought the judge and jury, respectively, should decide based on some inner sense of justice. That's not the way real court works! And it led, in one case, to the judge deciding against a client just because he didn't like him.

At least on other legal shows, you hear a little bit of the legal arguments as well as the personal ones.

Boston Legal never fails to deliver. This may be the best David E. Kelly series ever, which is almost heresy considering how excellent and incredible L.A. Law was or how fun and quirky Ally McBeal was.

It's really amazing how touching the series is and it always throws out plenty of red meat to liberals, which I assume is its main audience.

I've always liked Shelley Berman, and I've seen him in more things in the last 6 months (Meet the Fockers, The Holiday) than in the last 25 years. I'm glad he's getting work.

I like the fact that they lost both cases. That more loses in this one episode than the rest of the series combined.

I finally got my mom to watch the show but she doesn't understand the "HAnds" storyline or the DA and Alan storyline and those are great.

That wasn't much of review.... :rolleyes:

You missed what made this episode one of the best, William Shatner.. Denny didn’t even have to speak and that was the brilliance of the episode…