Boston Legal: It Was 50 Years Ago Today

Boston Legal - Season One

Boston Legal - Season 2

i am a little behind on some of my tv watching (actually just got up to date with 24 today after watching 3 episodes back to back) so i just got to last week's episode of Boston Legal today, but i had to talk about it.

Boston Legal is one of, maybe even, my favorite show on tv. this is david e. kelly's masterwork. the writing is so strong with its ability to be hysterically funny and touching and dramatic and political all in the same hour without missing a beat. and don't forget the great performances week after week by spader and shatner and the rest of the cast.

well if you missed last weeks episode, then go find it and watch it, because it was great. the main storyline involved a man holding the law office hostage while they re-enacted the trail from 1957 that had found a man (who he brought with him at gun point) not guilty of killing his mother. the lawyers for the man had been a very young denny crane and his father.

what made the episode even more interesting was the flashback scenes with denny crane and his father. for those scenes they actually took footage from an appearance shatner made on the tv show The Defender back in 1957. the integration of the footage was powerful and worked within the context of the story and the situation. it kind of made me think about that movie with terrance stamp, The Limey in which they use footage from an older terrance stamp film, Poor Cow.

great show, great episode!!