# Is Season 3 of Boston Legal as politically preachy as Season 2? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-season-3-of-boston-legal-as-politically-preachy-as-season-2/387294 "2007-01-09T15:26:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-season-3-of-boston-legal-as-politically-preachy-as-season-2/387294/1 "2007-01-09T15:26:14Z")
I’ve been watching Season 2 of Boston Legal on DVD, and while it’s a great show, every episode has a clumsy, ham-handed speech on some political issue shoehorned into it. While I mostly agree with the causes they’re promoting, it’s a little patronizing, not to mention quite annoying. Is Season 3 like this as well, or did they tone it down some? ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-season-3-of-boston-legal-as-politically-preachy-as-season-2/387294/2 "2007-01-09T16:18:41Z")
In Season 3, it’s replaced with Candice-Bergen-Older-Women-Are-Super-Duper-Sexy-We-Swear! getting pounded into your head as many times as possible. Seriously, though, it’s still worth watching simply because it’s better than almost anything else on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-season-3-of-boston-legal-as-politically-preachy-as-season-2/387294/3 "2007-01-09T18:05:28Z")
Agreed, on all counts. I’m getting really tired of virtually every man on that show slavering after Bergen…though I have to admit she has pretty eyes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-season-3-of-boston-legal-as-politically-preachy-as-season-2/387294/4 "2007-01-09T18:32:29Z")
What they said. Actually, I didn’t see most of season two so I can’t compare. Season three has had some preaching in the closing statements, but it doesn’t happen at every trial or in every episode. I complained about Candice Bergen as a sex queen too, but now I’m okay with it. I think it’s a backlash against vapid young hot women and I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-season-3-of-boston-legal-as-politically-preachy-as-season-2/387294/5 "2007-01-09T18:36:11Z")
Remember Richard Fish and Dyan Cannon in Ally McBeal. Dave Kelley has an agenda. I just pretend the flaws aren’t there. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-season-3-of-boston-legal-as-politically-preachy-as-season-2/387294/6 "2007-01-10T03:00:56Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] What they said. Actually, I didn’t see most of season two so I can’t compare. Season three has had some preaching in the closing statements, but it doesn’t happen at every trial or in every episode. I complained about Candice Bergen as a sex queen too, but now I’m okay with it. I think it’s a backlash against vapid young hot women and I like it. [/QUOTE] See, me, I like vapid young hot women 😃