# Boston Legal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866 "2005-05-14T21:44:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/1 "2005-05-14T21:44:32Z")
I seem to be the only one to really like **Boston Legal** , but I have some questions if anyone is able to answer. I had all sorts of stuff writen but the basic question is; where did it go, and is it coming back? ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/2 "2005-05-14T21:52:57Z")
Apparently it’s coming back in September. Grey’s Anatomy has been enough of a success that they want to bring both of them back next year, and so BL will debut in September to let Grey’s Anatomy run out their new episodes. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/3 "2005-05-14T23:54:38Z")
Denny Crane…coming back in September…Denny Crane 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/4 "2005-05-15T00:07:23Z")
I don’t mind **Grey’s** , but I miss **Boston Legal**. Looking forward to September. Denny Crane! ---
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/5 "2005-05-15T11:36:38Z")
I am so glad there are other people that like it. I love how very twisted it usualy is. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/6 "2005-05-15T11:45:48Z")
I was a big fan of THE PRACTICE until it started getting repetitive and then goofy-beyond-comprehension and then finally a total soap opera but I’ve never been able to stomach BOSTON LEGAL, which started off strained and goofy. I found it hard to follow a legal show that diverged from the git-go from the normal range of plausible legal situations. Has it stayed as implausible? Gotten more so? (Can’t see how.) Changed in some other direction? ---
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/7 "2005-05-15T15:33:50Z")
I think if you are looking for a realistic law practice; I am not sure **Boston Legal** has anything more than a passing aquantence with that. It does, however, take a lot of the issues of our time and put them into legal dramas to create interesting drama. It is political, but not blatently onesidedly so, and seems to find something to laugh about from every side. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/8 "2005-05-15T16:07:12Z")
Boston Legal is just Ally McBeal without Ally. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/9 "2005-05-15T19:19:30Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > Boston Legal is just Ally McBeal without Ally. It’s a _little bit_ better than that. Unless, I missed it, Boston Legal doesn’t do that annoying “this is what I’m thinking”, thing. I don’t want to see what’s going on in the minds of people I know, much less fictional characters on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/10 "2005-05-15T20:39:49Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > Boston Legal is just Ally McBeal without Ally. But it’s got _Shatner!_ And not as “goody two shoes” Kirk, but as a sleazy lawyer, who apparently had a three way with Candice Bergan and a _male_ Barbra Streisand impersonator! What’s not to love? ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal/303866/11 "2005-05-16T01:49:37Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > who apparently had a three way with Candice Bergan and a _male_ Barbra Streisand impersonator! **What’s not to love?** Umm… the Streisand-man? I watch Grey’s Anatomy. It’s not bad. It’s the drama Scrubs (if it had come first, I’d say Scrubs is the comedy Grey’s Anatomy). But I so miss Boston Legal. I will be ridiculously glad when it’s back on the air. Definitely the superior show.