Denny fires guns in his office. He fires a gun in a courtroom. He should have been taken into custody and charged with a felony. This show may be entertaining but there is nothing real about the world where it takes place. Boy does this assault rifle thing seem hollow with what is going on these days. The panty thing was an extension of plot stupidity. Again. Betty White's trial was also unlikely where Shore talked her out of a conviction. This show has no legal credibility.
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The Cuckoo's Nest!
rmayfield128 April 2019
Boston Legal - A Whiff and a Prayer
Scarecrow-8822 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Well, Reverend Donald Diddum (Kurt Fuller) just won't go away, and he claims "atonement is in order", planning to turn attorney Sara Holt (Ryan Michelle Bathe) into the bar for her flirtatious methods in order to gain a better settlement offer for her boss at the firm, Denise (Julie Bowen). He considers himself a reasonable man: if she will provide her panties to him, all will be forgiven! I guess another creepy pervert priest rears his ugly head! Meanwhile, Shirley (Candice Bergin) and Denise are representing a politician being held accountable for not supporting an anti-assault weapons ban put forth in congress
Denny (William Shatner) is unsure why he is sitting in on the trial considering he is so "pro-weapons" and their client is a—dramatic pause and intense shock-and-awe—Democrat! The big case concerning Catherine's (Betty White) trial for murdering Bernie gets under way and Alan must endure a rather unpleasant "impromptu re-enactment" of the whole crime. Alan will need to recover with a resoundingly powerful closing argument (which he often does; the guy's track record at recuperating a failing case through the amazing closing argument, where he pulls out all the stops, is quite impressive) in order to help Catherine escape from the noose.
Denny's contemplation of retirement while fishing from a sewer near the office (!) as Alan tries to console his crumbling belief in his talents (fading away, with the memory of how great he once was tormenting him) is a dramatic high point in the episode I think those of us who have experienced watching someone once so phenomenal and brilliant lose access to what made him or her so can relate to what Alan sees and Denny experiences. Denny's pomp and circumstance when closing for the politician, including his musket accidentally going off in the courtroom, in his American Revolution garb, is another real peach of a scene. The whole subplot with Fuller was just rather unsettling to me while the tone seems to indicate this was something to be viewed as kinky and silly the way priests have been discovered as perverts and sexual deviants, this subplot might not have made it off the script onto screen, I think. Fuller plays it up, though, and Bathe's dilemma at whether or not to adhere to his demands ends rather surprisingly: she doesn't cave (she admits she doesn't wear underwear!) and lets him have a couple of hard slaps to the face, for which he finds pleasurable! It appears as if Rhona Mitra's character has been written out of the show (she was barely in the previous episode and altogether absent in this one; Alan seems to have moved on from her just fine).
Denny's contemplation of retirement while fishing from a sewer near the office (!) as Alan tries to console his crumbling belief in his talents (fading away, with the memory of how great he once was tormenting him) is a dramatic high point in the episode I think those of us who have experienced watching someone once so phenomenal and brilliant lose access to what made him or her so can relate to what Alan sees and Denny experiences. Denny's pomp and circumstance when closing for the politician, including his musket accidentally going off in the courtroom, in his American Revolution garb, is another real peach of a scene. The whole subplot with Fuller was just rather unsettling to me while the tone seems to indicate this was something to be viewed as kinky and silly the way priests have been discovered as perverts and sexual deviants, this subplot might not have made it off the script onto screen, I think. Fuller plays it up, though, and Bathe's dilemma at whether or not to adhere to his demands ends rather surprisingly: she doesn't cave (she admits she doesn't wear underwear!) and lets him have a couple of hard slaps to the face, for which he finds pleasurable! It appears as if Rhona Mitra's character has been written out of the show (she was barely in the previous episode and altogether absent in this one; Alan seems to have moved on from her just fine).
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