Season 5 – Boston Legal

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Test T I finished watching this on DVD recently. I've watched all the previous seasons, and enjoyed most of them up until the tail end of season four where I thought the formula had started to go off the rails. Thankfully, season five appears to have got things back on track, starting well despite the scarcity of new characters. The writing has improved immeasurably and the courtroom drama is now first rate. Episode four 'True Love' is one of fhe best I've seen, incorporating clever plot twists surpassing my highest expectations of this comedy driven series. Moving on, things turn out to be more medocre, and episode 4 was certainly the high point. There are a few more interesting cases, but as the series begins to approch it's ending, the emphasis switches to the more mundane business of wrapping up all those loose ends for the characters which went the distance. I suppose this was to be expected, but it feels hollow again, like the ingriedients which made the show great have been dummed down in the interests of a tidy conclusion. Without revealing too much, I thought the ending came far too quickly and felt hurried, and some might even think it unplanned and contrived. Having watched the entire series. i was dissappointed by it. Aside from a few good episodes near the beginning, I felt short changed by season 5, with it's megre 12 episodes. In retrospect, seasons 1 through 3 were far better. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/22/25 Full Review Michael T Behind Frasier Boston legal is the funniest TV series ever made. The chemistry between Spader and Shatner is second to none. But along with the comedy comes serious issues, some are out dated but others are ongoing. Still well worth a watch even nowadays Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/08/23 Full Review David C This made me LOL a lot, and cry a little. It's as bizarre as we'd come to expect, with an equally bizarre ending for something that invested so much in its overarching character stories. There are loosely tied threads, and then there are a number left flapping in the wind! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Lars N A great conclusion to one of the best tv-shows ever created!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/23/22 Full Review steve d With the disappearance of more characters (while acting like they were never there) the show stumbles to its final a bad joke of its former self. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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