Boston LegalMad Cows
Original Air Date: Nov 3, 2008
Kathryn – TwoCents Reviewer
kathryn@twocentscorp.com
After I watched this show I bashed my hand against my breast and declared I was proud to be an American. This just gave me a really bad case of the hiccups and I looked silly. I remembered I was not an American. But I’m still very proud of America and of this week’s Boston Legal – I raise my glass to producer David E.’s brass balls.
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Original Air Date: Nov 3, 2008
Kathryn – TwoCents Reviewer
kathryn@twocentscorp.com
After I watched this show I bashed my hand against my breast and declared I was proud to be an American. This just gave me a really bad case of the hiccups and I looked silly. I remembered I was not an American. But I’m still very proud of America and of this week’s Boston Legal – I raise my glass to producer David E.’s brass balls.
Apart from the odd salmon reference (which is par for the course on Boston Legal) this episode is basically VOTE VOTE VOTE – preferably Democrat – but even if you want the old geezer and the Eskimo – VOTE you silly ninnies!
Someone must have been watching Boston Legal because the Americans took David E.’s advice. I’m told one little old lady even came in an ambulance to vote. Obviously no one had told her about postal voting being an easier and more sensible option - but it was a nice gesture all the same.
This also explains why the entire review is written in campaign sound bites.
• Shirley’s traveling interstate to vote because she wants her vote to count in the right state (i.e. Candice had something else on that week and couldn’t be bothered to fly in to LA for the shoot).
• End the Denny/Shirley speculation right now folks. It ain’t going to happen. Carl lets it slip he and Shirley are an item. Denny/Shirley is about as happening as House/Cameron.
• Odo (the old guy with the odd hair) is still alive: with a better hair style. Thank God someone showed him a hair brush and what to do with it. I’m always glad when BL characters pop up again. When they just suddenly disappear I always have this horrible feeling they sort of fell off the side of a building one day and no one wanted to mention it. Odo had a daughter - who had a thing with Brad, who had a thing with Denise and then suddenly: poof – it’s back to Alan and Denny! Poof exactly! Where the heck did everyone else go? One minute it’s the Republicans and the next the Democrats are swarming the hill.
• Denise (the nice looking blonde lawyer chick who got pregnant with the tall blonde lawyer Marine boy Brad from season whatever) is also alive and kicking. She doesn’t have quite the same impact as the shape shifter from Deep Space Nine, but she does get some good lines and gives Alan a good fluffing (it takes a lot to fluff the fluffmiester). She also has much better hair than Odo.
• Denise is trying to convince the little weird gay judge why not testing for Mad Cow disease in cows is a good thing. Alan, Denny (especially) and even the weird judge think she’s been hitting the bad burger herself. Testing for deadly diseases is bad how? ‘Whose government is this?’ asks Alan. ‘Yours,’ answers Barack.
• As Shirley is off voting early and often, it’s up to Carl to convince a bunch of elderly extras we have never seen before why Jerry ‘hands’ Epsenson should be made a partner. Personally I’d start with the fact he’s a better actor than all of them, but the lot on the 28th floor seem intent on knowing the sordid details of his sex life before he can join them in their 28th floor orgies. There’s obviously a whole aspect of law school I missed out on - dang it.
• I’d love to see the look on George Bush’s face if he ever met Hugh Laurie (House) in real life. Mrs Laurie, Mr Stephen Fry and a certain few know, for a fact, Hugh is British (don’t tell George). But Jerry’s BBF Katie doesn’t have to hide her Britishness. She is red white and blue and not afraid to prove it. For once telling the truth works. There’s not a pop or a wooden cigar in sight as Jerry gets to hug Katie after Carl tells him he has made partner. I know some want Katie and Jerry to pair up, but I’d be happy for them to continue popping over the shared desk till the mad cows come home.
• ‘Politics should not involve thinking - Denny Crane’. Nice…but then he followed it with: ‘That’s the reason the Democrats never win’… not his greatest line… considering the ‘you know what’.
• But what fun. Denny and Alan have an all out paintball shoot out over the terrifying prospect of Sarah Palin actually being left in charge of anything larger than fishing hole. Alan and Denny covered in paint has to be the cutest scene of the entire final season – YES – FINAL season. Not withstanding they are both splattered and doomed, James Spader can do this little guilty head tilt which would make me throw enough Emmys at him to give him permanent brain damage.
• His little head lilt obviously works because there is much Denny/Alan hugging in this episode.
Oh, who am I kidding, stuff this politics dribble – David E. is always about the salmon. The most intelligent show on American TV - aired right before the election - and David E. spends the first five minutes getting Denny and Alan to talk about the salmon. If I didn’t realize he was making a very important, very clever point I’d almost think he was an idiot. Then he uses the rest of the show to drone on an on about the election. And get over it David. You won.
My spies tell me the ABC has booked the two-hour series finale for Monday, December 8. Please, start flinging those coins.
Congratulations to everyone who voted – on whatever side of the coin. And, as David E. would kill me if I didn’t remind you: there is another one in four years time, so you can always change your mind.