BonosSaint said:
But I kind of liked how crusty/bitchy Clare(?) I got a kick out of her "icky" reaction to everything. She would have been a good foil for Alan to wear down. She was hilarious, but her edge got lost too quickly
I agree. I don't like the Craig Bierko character, ick. And I don't want him upstaging Alan
I liked the Denny storyline too, omg he's so insensitive
I don't know what to make of this season so far, it's too over the top for me. Something isn't quite right
enough with the 4th wall stuff too..
Mr. Kelley tears down that wall
By Rick Porter
September 25, 05:20 PM
Boston Legal kicks off a major story arc Tuesday night with the introduction of a new series regular, Craig Bierko, who immediately becomes involved in a major murder case.
Which is a little puzzling, considering Tuesday's episode is the second in the show's third season. Legal creator David E. Kelley must think so too, since he has Denny Crane (William Shatner) break the fourth wall by saying, "If they were the new guys" -- Constance Zimmer is also joining the show in a recurring part -- "they would've shown up in the season premiere." After making his usual lecherous advances at Zimmer's character, Denny then turns to the camera and says, "Cue music."
Breaking the wall between characters and audience is something the show has done a few times in the past, and Kelley's okay with that. "I think our viewers are able to wink with us," he says. "On previous in the past, I think Crane had lines like, 'I won an Emmy,' and there have been episodes where in the balcony scene Crane and Shore [James Spader] reference that they've hardly seen one another in this episode.
"It's a license we'll take from time to time. We certainly want to be careful not to throw the audience out of a story line, but we're not above winking with them at the same time."
Last week, too, Shore had a line about feeling like he's been getting nicer over the past couple of years, "like a series regular on a television show." Kelley says that's not exactly breaking the fourth wall, but it may signal a willingness on his and the writers' part to rediscover Shore's degenerate side in the coming season.
Spader, for one, wouldn't mind that. "I think there has been a desire for more confrontation and more trouble," the actor says. "I think certainly he's alluded, or David has alluded with episodes and Alan's musings, that he's uncomfortable with the comfort he's been feeling at the firm. He's restless and he's going to be up to no good, probably."
And as for that big murder? It involves the killing of a judge, with her young law clerk (guest star Ashton Holmes), who was having an affair with her, the prime suspect. Bierko's Jeffrey Coho takes the case on his first day at work in the Boston office of Crane, Poole & Schmidt, and at first it appears that he has more in common with the strident do-gooders from Kelley's The Practice than with the assorted cooks of Boston Legal.
"We'll burst that bubble probably by show four or five," Kelley says, "and reveal him to be just another nut.