Oh, I love this storyline:
Denny shoots a guy and his partners have to decide if it’s time to get rid of Denny.
As if that’s ever going to happen! “Denny Crane,” after all.
I read this and thought “oh, not a repeat.” But no. He’s shooting someone else. 
If they have to jettison one of the current cast, for whatever reason, the order to be considered for eviction, IMHO, is:
Candice Bergen
Rene Auberjonois
Mark Valley
Julie Bowen
William Shatner
James Spader
The other players, bit roles and occasional players, could be inserted between Auberjonois and Valley.
But if they were to drop Shatner the show would cease to matter.
Candice just doesn’t add anything of substance and the whole Tom Selleck interlude was almost painful to endure.
I love Candice, but I agree about the Selleck episodes. Maybe it’s his facial hair – it’s too thick, looks fake.
Candice has value if only because there aren’t enough middle-aged attractive women on TV, IMHO.
Who’s he going to shoot? Not one of the other stars, I hope.
Here’s the synopsis from the website:
Uptight-straight as an arrow-whitebread Brad can’t kiss!!? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
I suppose that kiss must have been on the lips? Otherwise, I’d say Brad has it down to an art.
It’s really hard to zoom in on the “theme of the week” this time. The “dump Denny” idea never took off. Denny shooting his therapist was almost too lame. The DWB theme lacked any real conviction and was almost a certain “not guilty” from the get-go. So I guess, by default, it was “Brad learns to kiss?”
Are we supposed to see Brad as sexy now? Sorry, it didn’t work for me.
If they ever made a Steve Canyon movie, Mark Valley’s a shoe-in for the part.
I like him. He’s got great eyes, all blue and twinkly. Despite the “ex-marine and lawyer, total package”, he doesn’t come off as arrogant.
The importance of good kissing – I liked that too. It really is important. Ask any woman whose face has been swallowed and slobbered on, or any guy who kissed a girl (over the age of 14) who kept her lips tight together.
I liked Alan’s comment to Denny about the Mad Hatter girl – “I don’t know about her”. He didn’t rag on her – they could have gotten a laugh out of her craziness. Alan’s a gentleman. I love that.
I liked Alan’s co-counsel. Alan told her she had a good heart, and by gum if she didn’t get all heartful with the jury, and it worked.
So why is Alan avoiding a sexual relationship?
It just felt like a weak episode.
- Denny’s needs to be big and blustery and outspoken and mad cow. Outside of the opening and the ending (i.e. when he shoots a man), he was a nonentity this episode.
- Alan was overstrained between two cases and a love story.
2.5) Even though they eventually won, the defendant in the race case just bugged me. - Even though we’ve been calling for Brad and Denise to have lots of blue eyed Aryan love, it’s kinda icky once it happened.
I’ve only seen a handful of Boston Legal episodes, but this episode put it on my list of series that I’ll be catching up on via DVD.
Luckily for me, one of the half-dozen episodes that I saw was the one that introduced Judge Jibber-Jabber, (and the kiss/crush between Alan and the paralegal) so there was some continuity.
So many people have encouraged me to watch this show, and I’m a little chagrined that I’ve passed on so much of it, now.
“We need to talk.” “No we don’t, it was just a kissing lesson.” “We had sex.” “I know.” “Incredibly hot sex.” “I know.” “On the floor.” “I know.” “And that’s it?” “Yes, that’s it.”
Class.
Dammit, the last thing I need in my life is more “must see” TV. I felt so much better when I could count on there being maybe one show each week that I felt a need to actually watch.
I hope they don’t do a Law and Order twist, and have the guy show up later, charged with burglary.
This was one of the better shows I’ve seen, for an example of racial profiling, from the profiled point of view.
I actually thought that this was an EXCELLENT episode. The focus was on the fun characters (as opposed to Shirley, who is no longer a particularly fun character at this point), there were a bunch of absolutely hilarious lines, the dramatic parts of the story played out well, and it all just worked - much more than the recent Tom Selleck episodes have been working. Oh, and it managed to be political without bashing us over the head with it, which has been a problem in some of the recent episodes.
I also just noticed that because they held the last few episodes of the first production run for the start of season two, we’ll be getting an extra-long season (that was the 23rd by my count, and we have four more to go). Which makes me happy, especially with how good this week’s was.
I enjoyed the interplay between Denny and his shrink, Alan and the Jibber Jabber Poopycock Judge, and the kiss-tutoring.
So, did Alan kiss Chelina at the end? I was looking at my phone for some reason, then realised I missed part of their goodbye.
Natch. It was a sweet kiss, too.
Just it case it might matter, the Jibber-Jabber Judge is played by Shelly Berman. He also plays Larry David’s father on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He was one of the pioneers of comedy records back in the 50’s along with Bob Newhart, Jonathan Winters, Redd Foxx, Moms Mabley, Brother Dave Gardner, and a handful of others. His bit had a lot of the man-on-the-phone stuff, but considerably different from Newhart’s.
I like how Denny shifted gears on the dDefence of himself with Judge Jibber-Jabber and went with the flow. He was speaking the Judge’s language about the Prosecuter and it worked.
Also, the final part of the scene with the Doctor on the stand! Now that was funny!