Tuesday February 6, 2007
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Judge Brown turns to Denny when he sues a company for not curing his "same-sex attraction disorder", but Denny's homophobia forces him to ask Alan to help.
Shirley takes on the case of a young girl who wants to take a pill to help her forget a traumatic molestation.
Meanwhile, Denise finds out she is pregnant, and asks both Brad and Jeffrey for paternity tests, and Clarence takes his relationship with Claire to the next level.
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this episode was really good. We finally get to find out who the father of Denise's baby is... Brad. Almost straight away brad is keen on the idea of having the baby. But Denise is considering abortion, how could she? Also in this episode Alan and Denny defend a judge who wants to sue a company who said they could cure his homosexuality. Meanwhile Shirely fights a case to stop a daughter taking a new wonder pill which can apparently erase painful and tramatic memories. So overall i thought this was a really great episode and next week also looks great. Boston Legal is doing so well.
I have mixed feelings about this episode... hide show
Alan Shore and Denny Crane represent judge Brown, who suffers from SSAD, which means he's gay.The message the show tries to tell us is that "this is a silly case, because being gay is not curable". I don't agree with this because I think sexuality is a matter of choice, so I didn't enjoy that as much. However, I did like Alan's contempt (never gets old), Denny telling Alan exactly what he needs to win, and the whole interaction between Alan and the judge. I liked that they won because he paid to be cured, and the treatment didn't work.
The other case I did not enjoy so much. Creepy Clifford Cabot comes back as the uncle of a 16 year old girl that was molested by a rabbi. The father wants to give her a forgetting pill, but the mother (Cabot's sister) doesn't want it. She has all this crazy ideas that pain is good and our experiences make us who we are. Why go through pain we can avoid? Why not let the girl decide what she wants (she wanted the pill, but like anyone cares what a kid wants...). This should have been her choice and only hers. This case actually made me mad and was my least favorite since Brad's niece last season.
Then we have the love triangle Between Denise, Brad and the now underused Jeffrey Coho. Guess what? She's pregnant! That's right, a succesfull attorney that had an affair with two men apparently wasn't being careful enough. Anyway she orders a paternity test (wouldn't it be too soon yet? whatever) and Brad's the father, which saddens Coho because apparently he's biological clock is ticking. Brad wants to start planning his kid's education already but Denise drops a crap bomb: She's not sure if she wants it! Why didn't she decide that before testing for patternity? She has no right to play with Brad or anyone else like that. She even threatens to get a restraining order against Brad, who has every right to be upset. Whether you agree with abortion or not (I don't), Denise should be more mature and make up her mind before telling Brad he's a father. Way to assassinate her character here, writters, thumbs up!
In other news Clarence is now Alan's asssintant. Let's hope that leads somewhere, but somewhere doesn't seem to be this show's direction...
In conclussion, a not so enjoyable episode (mainly because Shirley's case and Denise's pregnancy and immaturity) but with some funny parts (Alan´s case).
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this is one of the tv shows ..which contains no bad episodes i literally like every episode i watched from season 1 till now .. this particular episode was another great one ..i love james spade allan shore ..it seems like his performance gets better and better with every new episode he's truly amazing ..poor denise though with her pregnency and all ..brad is such an idiot ..i wish it was coho's that would of made their storylines alot more interesting i think .. and denny crane ..you'd never think something clever would come out of him with his general behavior but i loved the bit where he was speaking to allan about the 2 america's speech ..pretty good ..
Denise is pregnant, Shirley's case addresses the moral concerns of pharmaceutical brain-washing, and Alan and Denny's case is so sad, er, SSAD, rather. hide show
It's been a while since we've gotten a good, classic Alan Shore court room performance like that, complete with antics and pointing and whatnot during his closing. It just reminds me of something more similar to last season, before the show got so entirely hokey. I like some of the hokey stuff sometimes, but only really when it is contrasted against a really good courtroom scene or something else of considerable substance, and this episode delivers.
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