# "The Practice"--some questions (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 22, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-some-questions-spoilers/94787 "2001-11-22T18:06:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-some-questions-spoilers/94787/1 "2001-11-22T18:06:18Z")
1. When did Anderson Pearson get out of prison, and how? 2. Where is Helen Gambel? And in general, anyone want to discuss this show? ---
**Author:** ![jabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-some-questions-spoilers/94787/2 "2001-11-22T21:10:35Z")
I have only recently started watching this show, mostly reruns on FX, and I love it! I think it is very well acted and written. And I love Eugene and Marcia Gay Hardens character. Thats about all I have. peace, JB ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-some-questions-spoilers/94787/3 "2001-11-23T07:32:30Z")
Anderson Pearson: At Lindsey’s urging, Judge Hiller reduced his murder conviction to involuntary manslaughter, with a sentence of IIRC, 2-5 years. It’s been long enough for him to have gotten out. Helen’s still around. She wasn’t in this episode, but she has figured prominently in some earlier ones this season. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-some-questions-spoilers/94787/4 "2001-11-23T16:53:48Z")
Oh, OK, I think I just saw Lindsay’s plea to the judge to reduce the conviction on one of the various repeats, but I didn’t see the outcome. Thanks. Next question is who’s this new guy in the opening credits? I have missed at least one episode this season (the season premiere apparently, as I never saw an announcement of when that would be) and I don’t recall ever seeing him. I’m guessing he’s a new ADA to replace the slain Richard Bey but who is he? Generally I’ve been a little disappointed in the show this season. It’s sort of a carry-over from some disappointment I’ve been having all along, which is that the show can very easily fall into a formula of “lawyers find out something that puts them in an ethical dilemma, whatever do they do to resolve it?”. And they just keep getting more and more outrageous in their examples of ethical dilemmas. When the show is on, it’s really on, and that’s usually when they’re in court. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-some-questions-spoilers/94787/5 "2001-11-24T06:24:21Z")
[ignore OP] One of my favourite pieces of teevee dialogue comes courtesy of _The Practice_: > [@](#): > > Jimmy (to judge): **"I want to speak to you, not simply as a lawyer, but as a friend. There was this judge. She wasn’t very judge-like at all. She had terrible manners. She rambled on the bench. She had a big mouth and she was obnoxious and she had an ego. Lord, she had an ego just like you, your honor. She also had a gift. She had the voice of a crow, and she beat her monkey. She relished being obnoxious. She was proud of mistreating people, and she used her ego and her crow-like voice to make millions of dollars, and she had a name, your honor. Her name…was Judge Judy."** Classic! [/ignore OP] Sorry **Otto** , I stopping watching the show a while back and cannot do justice to your questions. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-practice-some-questions-spoilers/94787/6 "2001-11-25T06:49:40Z")
Major fan here… been watching the FX stuff just to catch up to where I started watching, which was around the Vogelman trial. If it’s all new to you, you’re in for a treat. There’s some bullshit, but hey, 22 episodes a year, it’s hard to be great all the time. And Camryn Manheim rocks. stoid