EPISODE
SEASON
The second season deals with new events, as Neal faces a major challenge, while Neal works to justify the reassignment by saying she and Ling are friends and they end up hating each other. It seems that this has happened as a result of the lawsuit, while Kidd is contemplating an automated progress with a mediation case between the Fish Secretary and the singer of a migrant choir one day.
23 April 1951
2 February 1947, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
10 August 1971, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
December 19, 1972
22 December 1949, Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
17 August 1993
7 September 1949, Newark, New Jersey, USA
21 March 1977, Canton, Ohio, USA
6 August 1938, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 March 1962, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
21 August 1989, Palisades, New York, USA
18 July 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 June 1962, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
11 May 1965, Michigan, USA
11 June 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 July 1974
19 December 1953, USA
17 October 1945, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
26 November 1959, New York City, New York, USA
25 October 1963, Nicosia, Cyprus
16 December 1949, USA
March 12, 2019
Instead of being a moderately off-kilter drama with comedic elements, the show has become a wildly off-kilter comedy with dramatic elements. It's still an entertaining show. But it has fallen victim to the "can-you-top-this?" syndrome.
April 16, 2018
In its present, second season, McBeal has 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.
March 13, 2019
The writing remained as sharp as the debut year, but benefited by excellent additions to the cast.
March 13, 2019
Fox's once female-friendly -- even empowering -- drama has become a wretchedly misogynist, petty, and completely anti-woman endeavor.
March 12, 2019
Some of the show's serious turns this year explored new ground -- Cage's realization that Ally is only happy in her fantasy world -- but other times "Ally" rehashed old topics ad infinitum.
March 12, 2019
There's nothing radical or complex about the twee, self-indulgent sludge which passes for plot in [Ally McBeal].
April 16, 2018
Writer/creator David E. Kelley uses all of this not only to craft pungent, sophisticated comedy, but to expose emotional truths.
March 12, 2019
You know a character has gotten into your consciousness, or under your skin, when you talk about her as if she were a real person, and even a friend. I can't quite take it that far. Something about Ally McBeal bugs me.
