Boston Legal, Creator Bow Out, But Not Quietly

Tonight's final episode of Boston Legal marks a temporary end to creator David E. Kelley’s reign as “l'enfant terrible turned angry-older-guy of TV,” writes Lisa DeMoraes in the Washington Post. Kelley “has used his various prime-time series to prosecute cases against society's assorted ills—and sometimes, against the TV industry itself.”

Kelley's series “start out kinda quirky and get quirkier from there,” DeMoraes writes. But this time, Kelley, 52, created a show populated with older actors, meaning that while the legal drama was confronting “virtually every hot-button issue,” TV reporters were “way too busy covering a possible Gossip Girl spinoff” to notice.
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