Wow…just wow. So Eugene fired Allan and Tara, which suprised me, but it shouldn’t have, because neither Eugene nor Jimmy ever liked Allan, and Tara was loyaln to him.
I did sort of enjoy Eugene telling Eleanor that he fired Allan because Allan was ruining the firm’s reputation as an ethical law firm. It makes me wonder just how much self-denial he’s in, because whatever Bobby O’Donnell was, he wasn’t all that ethical.
So I guess the big question now is, how does Allan get even?
I’m giving this the one allowed bump, because it’s already on page 2, and I find it hard to believe that I’m the only one who watched the show last night.
Am I? What did everyone think?
I just started watching The Practice this season, with the first episode in the arc involving Allan’s old friend, Jill Clayburgh, Betty White, Ed Asner, etc.
I really like Spader’s character; he’s flip and funny and irreverent and he has some good lines.
I’m not so sure I’ll like him as a revenge-seeking psycho though, which is where the story appears to be heading, but I’ll keep watching.
Actually, I think I will like him as a psycho, but it means the writers won’t be able to keep him around as long. He’ll flame out.
Flame out all the way to his own tv series!
From TV Guide online magazine March 10:
“As expected, ABC is folding David E. Kelley’s eight-year-old Practice in May, but the network has ordered a Kelley-scripted spin-off centered on James Spader. According to USA Today, the new series will begin to take shape this month on The Practice, when Spader’s character, Alan Shore, is fired, files a wrongful-termination suit and joins a bigger firm. Practice co-stars Rhona Mitra and Jessica Capshaw are also expected to join the spin-off.”
Well, that’s good news then. Seems like he’d work better as a solo practitioner, but then where would be the conflict? We’d need a little devil on one shoulder, angel on the other.
Sunday’s episode had one of the worst jury verdicts I’ve ever seen, on TV. I was sure they were going to come back with a verdict in favor of the doctor, but that would have been less dramatic, I guess. Based on what we saw, they didn’t prove negligence.
They messed up two weeks ago, when they had Betty White in the courtroom during the trial. In Iowa (I thought everywhere), witnesses aren’t allowed to sit in the courtroom and listen to the trial. It made for nice drama, when Allan introduced her character as a possible suspect (she preened, didn’t she?), but it was done at the expense of realism, I think.
I miss L.A. Law.
Anyone want to do an episode recap? I neglected to tape it and it’s one of the few dramas not covered by TWoP. Thanks!
(also, great news on the spin-off)
Eugene and Jimmy agreed to fire Alan, and keep Ellenor in the dark. They needed (???) Tara to change all the firm’s passwords and to type up letters to all of their clients, so they tattooed the word “CONFIDENTIAL” on her forehead, but she promptly informed him anyway. He then inserted a video of himself telling off Eugene and Jimmy on the computer, which when they played showed them that Tara had blabbed so she was fired right after Alan was. Then Ellenor was told, and she was super-pissed. In a bar, she talked to Alan and learned he wasn’t going down wihtout a fight–so that’s the next few episodes.
(The case was a particularly dumb one, about a mother dying in childbirth because she was too poor to get pre-natal care so they sued the OB/GYN, and some nonsense about Massachusetts having a twenty-dollar cap on medical malpractice suits. Okay, it was 20,000. Not worth following. Jamie tried the case. Oh, and the former secretary–you know, with the red hair and the attitude?–was pressed into service to replace Tara. Why? I can’t begin to say.)