Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Watched this weekend's Boston Legal. I'm convinced David E. Kelley's gone around the bend. He seems determined to prove he can write television without using any of the cliches of television. There's nary a go-to in the episode. The dialog is dense and strange. The A story is made into a blatant allegory for Bush's invasion of Iraq by the dialog; meanwhile the B story becomes a shrill attack on the Food and Drug Administration's meat policy. Yikes. Made palatable only by William Shatner and Candice Bergen's excellent repartee.

All of which makes the show very much worth watching. It's always interesting watching a genius lose it. When a genius is working at the top of his form, the seams don't show. It's hard to see how the thing's done. Not on this show, baby.

9:56 PM

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