Boston LegalTrue Love
Original Air Date: Oct 13, 2008
Kathryn – TwoCents Reviewer
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Never has 42 minutes and 25 seconds gone by so fast than with this intimate clever and devastating episode of Boston Legal. Clock those writers on the head with an Emmy.
Sleepover night
I’m not too sure if this makes Alan Shore cute or weird, but in his new apartment he has two chairs exactly like the ones on the Crane, Poole and Schmidt balcony and two beds: one for him and one for Denny, Denny’s Denny Crane talking teddy bear...
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Original Air Date: Oct 13, 2008
Kathryn – TwoCents Reviewer
kathryn@twocentscorp.com
Never has 42 minutes and 25 seconds gone by so fast than with this intimate clever and devastating episode of Boston Legal. Clock those writers on the head with an Emmy.
Sleepover night
I’m not too sure if this makes Alan Shore cute or weird, but in his new apartment he has two chairs exactly like the ones on the Crane, Poole and Schmidt balcony and two beds: one for him and one for Denny, Denny’s Denny Crane talking teddy bear and Denny’s penis flow alert siren.
This is not very appropriate when discussing murder because Denny has his penis flow alert system set on ‘cock crowing’, but fortunately it does do vibrate.
While Denny is vibrating all over the room Alan is chatting to his ex love, Phoebe, who’s just popped in at three in the morning because her husband is up on murder and she wants Alan to get him off. Alan, although in his pajamas and with Denny shimmying all round his living room in ecstasy with his teddy bear, agrees to take the case.
The husband, considering he is a leading cardiologist, is unlikable. That is an understatement. He’s no James Wilson or Doctor Richard Kimble. He’s a creep. What’s more, he’s a philandering creep. He’s been doing one of his nurses and then to top it all off he did her in.
I don’t think I’m giving much away here as any person with a brain attached to their spinal chord can figure this out about two minutes in. The writers try to distract us with the whole ‘the wife comes forward and says she did it’ subplot, but the husband has really thin wormy lips so this is a completely unbelievable plotline.
I’m not too au fait with America’s criminal justice system, but wouldn’t it help a bit if you were accused of murder to not be a pratt: to the jury, the judge, your attorney, or anyone who is able to send you up the river for life.
Between Creep Husband insulting everyone, the judge foolishly threatening various forms of discipline, the nasty DA, the nasty media and Denny’s vibrating penis, Alan is a little distracted.
Alan, and his very prominent briefcase go visit Doctor Creep who reaffirms just how arrogant and creepy he is – and he knows full well that Alan is madly in love with his wife.
For Alan it’s a lose/lose situation. Even Denny says get out. In defeat Alan loses the girl he loves who he’s disappointed. If he wins the love of his life walks away with a man that isn’t him. This is a dark dark episode.
The big problem is the woman was killed callously by someone who knows medicine and he’s not exactly likeable. Neither is his wife. She’s got weird lips too. Lord knows what Alan saw in her.
Even the mother of the dead woman has a weird mouth and considers her dead daughter a ‘woman of ill repute’. No one is likeable in this episode. Her poor neighbor is forced to admit that just judging by all the cars going in and out of her driveway she had a ‘diverse recreational life’. The most open minded person in the world will have to admit this is a difficult episode to like. Not even Denny’s loud proclamations of not wearing any underwear on national television make it any more palatable. Killing people and getting away with it is not a fun thing.
Sorry, did I say this episode was a four hander. If forgot the briefcase…
What is it with Alan’s briefcase? If he’s not putting it down, he’s picking it up or waggling it around. What is going on with the briefcase? I don’t notice all that much, but that briefcase is starting to take billing on this show. It’s a nice briefcase, but really…
Bill Shatner
He really has matured as an actor. Well, he had too – he’s about a hundred. But in Boston Legal you can look beyond the face lifts: his ability to take the piss out of himself and the fact he’s slightly orange and see the young boy filled with passion, but no idea how to express it beyond panting and overly dramatic pauses.
Hanging around James Spader hasn’t hurt either (but James Spader is just weird). This episode is basically a four hander between Shore, Shatner, Alan’s ex and the Creepy Husband cardiologist. Shatner does a great job of playing the fool while Alan comes to terms with the fact the love of his life is a right nutter (and so is her husband). This episode basically explores how love can make you loopy or can save you. It’s just lucky Alan has Denny (not in that way of course).
The balcony scene
Kinky as - when Denny’s penis vibrator goes off at the mention of a sleepover – and dwarves.
Love’s labor’s lost…
Have you ever felt unrequited, or requited, love? I’ve done some kinky things in courtrooms, but I’ve never actually had sex in one. If you’ve ever fantasized about taking that special person and showing them exactly what they mean by a ‘thorough examination on the stand’ give us your two cents (and pictures too might be nice).
As much as I love BL, the penis jokes are wearing a bit thin. I feel like the writers are phoning it in.... really.
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed he has won any cases just working on the amount of times he went off during this episode.
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