Creators:
David E. KelleyComposer:
Danny LuxCast:
Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Portia de Rossi, Lucy Liu, Vonda Shepard (more)Seasons(5) / Episodes(112)
Plots(1)
Calista Flockhart stars as Ally McBeal, a young, miniskirt-wearing lawyer who finds herself employed at Cage/Fish & Associates, a law firm where her childhood sweetheart (Gil Bellows) and his pretty wife (Courtney Thorne-Smith) also work. Sounds normal enough, but when you add in wattle-loving partner Richard Fish (Greg Germann), socially awkward (but successful) boss John Cage (Peter MacNicol), and a number of dream sequences, ALLY MCBEAL gets delightfully strange. Ally and her coworkers fought for a variety of oddball cases and causes, but the most interesting part of this dramedy was what happened outside of the courtroom. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews of this series by the user NinadeL (2)
Ally McBeal (1997)
I only discovered the Ally McBeal series once upon a time because of Courtney Thorne-Smith's departure from Melrose Place. Over time, it has found a permanent place in my heart and is one of those that I regularly dust off.
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Season 5 (2001) (S05)
Season 5 initially rebooted the entire inner world of the show, with characters coming/going like clockwork, but in the end, all the confusion turned out to make sense for Ally and her future. For a time she even found a classic family life with her daughter and partner. However, in spite of all the questions, wishes, loves, illusions and desires, in the end, it turned out that only Barry White is immortal and everything else is simply ephemeral. "You Are The First, My Last, My Everything."
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