Ally McBeal - Season 2 Part 2

In Ally McBeal - Season 2 Part 2, Ally McBeal turned into the sort of squirmy embarrassment its detractors said it was all along and those of us who found it an amusing divertissement always hoped it would never become. Where Ally McBeal used to be about the tribulations of an eccentric single woman trying to find happiness in a workplace family of weirdos — a sort of Mary Tyler Moore Show as conceived by Happiness director Todd Solondz — the series was finally about Ally's abasement. What was once wistful solitude has become desperate loneliness; her quest for a man soured into a hatred of other women who have men. (For what other purpose, I ask you, do new characters like Portia de Rossi's smarmy Nelle and Lucy Liu's hostile Ling exist, except as cartoon seductresses upon whom Ally, Courtney Thorne-Smith's Georgia, and Jane Krakowski's Elaine can heap contempt?)

Mind you, I'm not, as TIME magazine did, blaming McBeal for the death of feminism. Looking at the work of David Kelley for feminist messages is like looking at a Jackson Pollock painting for sailboats and sunsets. The other new area of McBeal McMediocrity is the de-evolution of Peter MacNicol's John Cage — at one time the most beguiling character on the show — from charming odd duck to full-blown nutjob, sputtering non sequiturs and pursuing a plotline about a pet frog into realms of silliness that even the Farrelly brothers would find beneath them.

I've never asked that McBeal become the realistic saga of an intelligent working woman, but maybe something more than this. Anyway, I think Ally McBeal's moment as a pop-cultural event has passed; and viewers hanging in there now are enjoying all the cartoonish humbuggery..

Ally McBeal Season 2 part 2 is brillant! Defiantly packed with all my favourite Ally episodes. Including Angels and Blimps, Civil War and Lets Dance.

Ally has a great combination of emotive story ines, character building and moral stories with Ally McBeal quirkiness thrown in!

Most episodes follow a court case and how each charcater responds to it and how it affects the others in the firm.

Season 2 is one of the best full of laughs and "Fishims."

A must for any Ally fan or a great start for a beginner!!