Boston Legal: Season 2 (2005-2006)

With a more then healthy 27 episode compliment this season, Boston Legal continues to fascinate and thoroughly entertain me. It really is a show about friendship, that is central, the whole Alan Shore/Denny Crain dynamic. Now Shatner’s Denny Crain is fantastic, one of the more original and enjoyable over-the-top characters to come down the TV pipeline in some time. But it is James Spader’s melancholy Alan Shore to whom I really respond. His is also a type we don’t see on TV often, he’s quite complicated, often amoral, but possessing of a rigorously adhered to code of ethics, and always willing to help a friend or acquaintance with the legal skills in which he excels. He is a sympathetic ass, if that is possible. And that odd friendship, they have so little in common demographically, but so much in common at heart. The idea of examining a true friendship is seldom treated on TV, while this show is a veritable ode to the concept. Fascinating. 5 out of 5. This may be the greatest network television program to come out this decade.