Boston Legal

Boston Legal Recaps

• FinaleWatch: 'Boston Legal'

  I distinctly remember sitting down to watch the first episode of Boston Legal five seasons ago. I had given up on The Practice two seasons before that show put out its final episode, but something about Boston Legal piqued my interest. The show's had ups and downs during its five years, but for me it's always been appointment television. My final two appointments were back-to-back ones tonight. It was sad, but the show does seem to have run its course.

• 'Boston Legal': That Catherine Piper's a hoot!

  Nothing makes me happier (as I think I've said before) than seeing dear old Catherine Piper on Boston Legal and in the offices of Crane, Poole, and Schmidt. Tonight that fantastic, fantastic woman was back, but rather than having killed someone, she was working at the firm once more. Or, that's what she claimed anyway.

• 'Boston Legal': A Crane, Poole, and Schmidt Thanksgiving

  You know what I think of when I think of Boston Legal? I think of courts and trials. I think of judges and juries. However, there was no court case tonight. There may have been a bunch of judges and a jury, but that's only because there was a friend-filled Thanksgiving dinner at Shirley Schmidt's.

• 'Boston Legal' shows its spunky side

  Tonight, Boston Legal began just like the start of a bad joke -- an attractive woman walks into Crane, Poole, and Schmidt (it's kind of like "a man walks into a bar"). I think in its last season the show should try to do a complete joke episode, an episode that is filled with nothing but stale lines from old jokes. However, that wasn't what tonight's episode was.

• 'Boston Legal' confuses the issue

  With all of the show's soapbox arguments, I was a little worried heading into tonight's Boston Legal. I knew that the primary case tonight dealt with parental consent for abortion, and whatever my personal feelings on the issue, it was definitely something the show would do better to handle gingerly. They did, but only because they managed to confuse it with other issues.

• 'Boston Legal' welcomes back some old friends

  Tonight's episode of Boston Legal started out where most episodes usually end -- on the balcony. The show always talks politics, so you knew they were going to discuss tomorrow's election and this was how it began. Denny and Alan were discussing the race for president and Denny gave Alan two reasons why he was voting McCain -- salmon and women. The man's logic was incredible and perhaps right, but would take hundreds and hundreds of words to try to explain in a way that would make any sense. As the discussion wasn't really germane to the episode, I will not expend those words, so let's just move on.