Boston Legal Returns!

[trekgeezer]

Although only in reruns right now, but it has started up in it's new time slot, Tuesdays at 9:00pm Central.

Last nights was the first episode of the show Denny is sleeping with one of their oldest clients trophy wife and gets a gun pointed at him. Alan Shore (James Spader) wins his discrimination case where the little black girl wants to play Annie thanks to Denny sending in Al Sharpton at the last minute. Alan also wins Brad's(Mark Valley) case by blackmailing the scuzzball husband.

If you've never watched the show now is the time to catch up. Everyone needs to see the OTS (that;'s the ONE TRUE SHATNER) in all his bloated and toupeed glory in the role he was born to play.

Putting Shatner and Spader together is one of the greatest jobs of casting ever to happen. Their little conversations at the end of each episode are worth watching the show for by themselves.

[Menard]

I had been seeing the ads for the new time slot. Dang, I liked it on Sunday nights. I guess I'll have to get used to it. I can't wait for the new season. It will make for an interesting Tuesday night line-up with Navy NCIS on at 8 and Boston Legal on at 9. Thankfully they did not put them in the same time slot. (:

[trekgeezer]

Tuesday night is cool for me.

I sort of detest all the CSI programs and their knockoffs like NCIS. I have a problem with crime scene investigators toting guns and arresting people (it doesn't happen), they do the science and don't run the investigations.

As far as NCIS, I was in the Navy and the show is total BS.

I guess I just have suspension of disbelief problems with these particular shows.

[Fearless Freep]

Ironically, I more dislike shows that try to be 'real' than shows that start with a stupid premise to begin.  I mean, once you establish a premise of time-traveling alien androids, I can put up with a lot.  But if you try to come across as all serious and real and dramatic, it only calls into focus just how nonsensical things really are...

[odinn7]

I feel the same way. If a show or movie is being portrayed as realistic, keep it that way because that is where my nitpicking will start. I watch a James Bond movie and can laugh and enjoy it through all the wild stunts and gadgets because it's not supposed to be real. Make me watch CSI (for example) and I just lose all focus once I see something that's ridiculous.

Anyway...back on topic...

[Menard]

Like Boston Legal is very realistic.

I personally cannot stand the CSI shows either. The main thing I like about NCIS is that they have their tongue planted firmly in their cheek. It is odd, as I could not stand Bellisario's previous show, JAG, from which NCIS was a spin-off.

[trekgeezer]

No, it isn't realistic and is not trying to be, but it sure is funny.

[Menard]

It is certainly a refreshing show that has its serious side, but does not forget to put in the humor, and a lot of it. It seems as though, over the past several years, that too many shows are going for the throat and get too serious to enjoy, at least to me. Boston Legal is one of the few shows that keeps me watching TV anymore.