Ally McBeal

I started watching this show because of Robert Downey Jr. but quickly fell in love with everyone, especially Ling, and could not stand Ally and would mute the TV whenever she came on. I recently started watching the show again on N@TF@IX, from the pilot, again fast forwarding scene of Ally, and enjoyed the show immensely. The show is great, made better, for me, without Ally McBeal!!!

What can one say about Ally McBeal? I was always sort of ambivalent about the show myself, but from what I can remember, it served as a sort of primer for young women in the late 90s that wanted to grow up to be 30-something, moderately successful professionals that are neurotic, seemingly incapable of meaningful adult relationships with the opposite sex and perpetually angst ridden over the incessant ticking of their internal clock... yet still remain smoking hot, despite their borderline insanity.I guess in that respect the show was a success, in that (from what I understand) many young ladies that were children of the nineties followed the path laid out by the show in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy... (some right down to the main character's name). If you meet the above description you'll likely love it. Not really a show that was directed towards me, though. Now, had they made a show in the late 90s about a mumbling, monotone, anti-authoritarian, paranoid recluse... well, I guess that would be the X-files, huh? Don't get me started about the level of social-conditioning and mind-control that goes into network television... just go watch Ally McBeal and forget you ever read this review, but remember "the truth is out there". Waaaay out there.