EPISODE
SEASON
Ally McBeal - Season 5
The new season starts with the time it takes for the rest of the road to go to the office. Now, 'Ally' discovers that Jenny's best friend is her ex-boyfriend and ex-colleague, and that 'Jenny' is a lawyer who can change her life path without a company and has a class action lawsuit involving 72,000 people already summoned during that time.
10 May 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 January 1967, Palo Alto, California, USA
31 January 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 February 1980, Georgia, USA
8 July 1968, New York City, New York, USA
2 December 1968, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
14 April 1964, Newark, Ohio, USA
21 February 1989, Long Beach, California, USA
21 January 1969, Endwell, New York, USA
15 March 1975, San Francisco, California, USA
9 October 1943, Pennsylvania, USA
31 July 1951, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
27 February 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
March 13, 2019
The problem with a show that made a name for itself with flights of fancy is that those flights tend to get higher, longer and more fanciful until the show spins out of orbit. And "Ally" left Earth behind some time ago.
March 13, 2019
It was a show with little concern for sensible plots; what mattered were the vibrant, offbeat characters and dazzling fantasy sequences.
March 13, 2019
Fantasy permeated all the characters' lives and made real life seem paltry by comparison... In this way, "Ally McBeal" played like an extended anti-fantasy public service announcement.
March 12, 2019
This legal dramedy (two words that don't necessarily seem like they'd go together) gave us a protagonist both messy and motivated, imperfect and interesting in ways that had rarely been explored on television
March 13, 2019
Although the show is mainly driven by comedy, there is a more real human side to it... One can only hope that the show will eventually find its feet this season and also go up and up
March 12, 2019
The series finale of "Ally McBeal" wasn't quite a nightmare, but nobody thought it'd end with the kind of whimper it did.
March 13, 2019
I won't pretend that the quality of the show didn't decline towards the end: the ludicrous decision to introduce Dame Edna Everage as a character (what? No). That pretty much killed it for me.
March 13, 2019
The show is seriously over-heating. What was once zany has been upped several notches and passed through the stratosphere of absurdity... Yet even when dreadfully surreal, Ally McBeal still entertains as it explodes in self-ridicule.
March 13, 2019
In the past two series the show has got tired, its quirks more irritating, its once outrageous court cases too try-hard.
March 12, 2019
The show faded quickly over the last two seasons and while it was once considered iconic, it's now an embarrassment.
March 13, 2019
On Ally McBeal, the characters' cuteness and narcissism are tiring. The once-amusing comedy wants to coast by on whimsy, and the results are just too precious. Rather than being screwball comedy, the results are simply screwy.
March 13, 2019
Ally McBeal, in her final unsurprising swansong, is a disturbing and humour-deficient parody of herself. The appointment of the very talented Dame Edna Everage to a role is ill-conceived, and recycling of scripts is frankly unforgivable.