Unusually good American drama-series presenting not just dramatic contrivances, but real-life ethical dilemmas. Despite the irritating shakycam establishing-shots of the city, the acting of James SPADER and William SHATNER – along with the quality of the writing – makes it all very watchable. Their characters are fully three-dimensional yet their neuroses make them somewhat less than fully human. They thus make a composite person when combined; while separately they flounder in their personal lives, as they do not in their professional. This is almost as if they are not enough, in themselves, to be separate personalities and only properly exist in terms of each other! The actresses, however, are the usual tv second-raters who could not make it in movies; retaining unchanging expressions no matter the emotions required! They merely exist to have sex with the actors and prove that the male writers cannot write convincing female parts that spring off the page and the screen. The comedy springs naturally from the characters rather than being a gimmick: A black humour based on experience with real and rather perverse criminals. Surprisingly intelligent and genuinely comic because it does not try too hard to make you laugh. You never know what is going to happen next as the writers stave off their own potential boredom by being excessively imaginative – this, ahead of any incipient audience ennui.
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Its very good season. I have download all episodes of this season. This season shows reality as well as fun. I love to watch boston Legal Everytime.
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