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Article: 'BOSTON LEGAL' ENJOYED BREAKING THE RULES FINALE TIME FOR A SERIES THAT NEVER SHIED FROM POLITICS.(Life and Arts)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 8, 2008
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Byline: ROB OWEN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
No other current scripted TV series is as political, topical or self-referential as ABC's "Boston Legal." After Monday night, the show will disappear, ending its five-year run.
Created and largely written by David E. Kelley, "Boston Legal," which began as a spinoff of Kelley's "The Practice," probably won't go gently in its two-hour finale (9 p.m., KOMO/4).
Already this fall, the series has addressed legal cases involving the tobacco industry, the USDA, pharmaceutical advertising, the presidential campaign and the election of Barack Obama.
"We can give thanks for a lot of things today, but ...