New Boston Legal tomorrow

For any or all of you who missed the first season last year because the Sunday night timeslot was inconvenient for you: The new season starts tomorrow on ABC in the new timeslot, Tuesdays at 10 PM. I really enjoy this series, and it's not just because they managed to have an episode with two lesbians in it, neither of whom were dead or evil by the end of the hour.

First and formost is the incredibly entertaining performances of the leads. The line at the Emmys about James Spader's leading character was that he's an "ethically challenged" lawyer. I think it's slightly more complex than that; he's a man who has contempt for the thing he's best at, the law. And as I've said many times, I'm really getting a kick out of the fact that William Shatner is having a renissance at this stage of his career and life.

But while keeping the focus (correctly) on the show's entertainment value, David E. Kelly often manages to produce stories that stimulate ideas without resorting to easy answers.

End of unpaid commercial endorsement.