Ally McBeal

Very good show in the beginning, then went downhill, then Robert Downey, Jr (and Anne Heche for a bit) gave it some life, but then Downey went on a bender and never returned (if I recall correctly, Heche was abducted by space aliens) and that was that. Once the show reached a few years old, every episode seemed to consist of a case about sex, bickering between the lawyers, and then a long montage of the cast walking around as a tune of that singer (whom I've never heard about since) played. Did she blackmail the producers? I mean she wasn't horrible, but every show? They couldn't stretch out the episode a bit to make it an actual hour-length show? Correction, 42 or 43 minutes. Anyway, like I said, in certain parts of its tv life it was very, very good.

This show was awesome. Each week I would watch it with my parents. My favorite eposides were when my favorite singer Josh Groban was on. When this show ended I was very sad.

Trash, even in it's earlier seasons.

Ok! It's going to sound unlike me, but I liked this show. Those characters were so crazy. Ally was neurotic, comfused, and stuttering. John with his pet-frog always cracked me up. Ellaine was too oversexed and nosy. Nell too comfused. Ling too bitchy. Geogia too jelous. In the beginning it wa pure fun, later story became too predictable and not as funny. Oh well, everything has its end.

Shamelessly trashy.

I hated the main character. Occassionally amusing, but the main character was so bad it was nearly impossible to watch.

Pretty original when it started and a few of the characters were truly great, but it got way too familiar way too fast. Still, a few minute of Lucy Lui was worth an hour of my time once and a while.

Started out with a great premise sorted of fizzled out towards the end...

It's not just that I hated this show- it's fans were lemming-esque chicks that had a problem with you if you didn't worship the show.

I loved this show it was funny. This show was great and i loved the dancing baby! I dont understand why people did not like the show but if you watched it from the beginning you would and will love it. Also, my favorite memory of the show was when the secretary sung on a show"I saw mommy kissing santa clause" It was so cute and I liked how she remixed it and I always love to sing the song the way she sung it. But the show is great!

Another show I never understood the appeal of. Then again, I was never a tool!

I could never sit through more than 10 minutes of this dreck. More tiresome yuppie navel-gazing and self-absorption. Who in the world thinks that crap like this makes for intriguing drama and/or comedy?

Never saw the appeal in McBeal.

Twitish comedy, made for twits.

It was funny to see a single female lawer acting crazy and fantasizing about creepy little babies that dance.

This show was amazing. It was hilarious. I laughed so hard each episode. They did such a great job on this. The whole cast did a great job. I miss that show.

At it's peak, it WAS a great show! Then, when some of the original cast members left, the show never recovered for me. Still, some of the episodes and some of the recurring bits of schtick are as memorable to me as anything on tv. It WAS one of those love it or hate it shows for sure.

I was able to tolerate the first 2 seasons, but then it became the most irritating show in the world!!!!! I can't stand Calista Flockhart, she ruined her career by that show. Then they tried to bring famous actors to make things better, but it just killed the show even more!

What a waste of time! If I wanted to see a woman acting like that, I could probably see someone just a quirky at work. Believe me, it's not something I want to see after hours!

Rather annoying, dancing in the bathroom? That dancing baby was evil. I don't get this show. Not awful but way over-rated.

It was sad when they cancelled this show! Very rarely do you find an hour long show that is both funny and dramatic. This show was great. It was going downhill for a while, when Lucy Liu left, but they cancelled it right when it started to get good again with Robert Downey, Jr. and when they added Christina Ricci. It is so annoying when people just bitch about Calista Flockhart's weight. So she's skinny, it doesn't have anything to do with how good the show is!

What I like about FOX is that they're willing to give some time to new writing. This show certainly wasn't cliche with token characters. Like many of Fox's most promising shows it starts out fun and even exciting to watch, but after a few seasons starts to go downhill. But this of course does not only apply to Fox, I've seen it on all the other networks with shows like Friends for example which was fun but then the desperate struggle to remain afloat in the ratings compromises the writing itself. Once cheap and transparent tricks start permeating into the stories it's time to leave well enough alone.

The only way you could find this show funny would be about a quarter of a century watching grass grow!

This show was entertaining for a single episode when it first came out. I enjoyed it for exactly one episode. Then it started to annoy me within the first minute of episode two. And whatever else this show may have accomplished, they will never ever redeem themselves for the grievous sin of introducing Lucy Liu to the world. There is no living actress (other than maybe Jada Pinkett) who is more intolerably smug than she is. I wish she'd die in a fire.

Thank God its cancelled! Now Calista can eat!

honest to god I cried when I found out that it got canceled. As much as I hate to admit it, I loved the show so much! it was hysterical!

Before Calista got all flaky and shrank to the width and breadth of a linguini, the show was really good. Then it started taking itself too seriously. Then, crap.

About time FOX figured out that Ally McBeal was nothing but the office tramp with no talent...ugh.

I loved this show and miss it. One mistake? It never was a comedy or a drama. it was both. It had soul, and compassion and consciousness, and there just is no category in US television for something so sweet and complex. I appreciate David E Kelley on all counts, and the wide range of women actors he uses in all his shows. from Callista to Camryn, all physical types, career women, maternal women, with no judgement on any of them. how refreshing.

I'm very glad this show got cancelled. This is another one of those bad bad shows that got popular strictly because of the hype-machine. I expect a very short syndication run and that will be that.

A limp attempt at comedy showcasing an anorexic little runt with weak, dirty hair. I've worked in law firms for a dozen years and I found this show to be totally unrealistic in terms of getting across the temper and flavor of such environments. This was a product of that dreadful Rupert Murdoch Fox Network, so it's not surprising it's tripe.

I only liked it when Ally was having those fantasy moments. And I like the theme song. It started getting more and more offensive.

i was addicted to it,then they had to cancell it ,damn,every time i find a good show-gone gone gone...

Ally McBeal is a great show and I am sad it is no longer producing new shows. Calista Flockhart is a great actress, despite what some may think about her appearance. She is NOT anorexic!. I am a naturally thin person-like Ally, and I do not have anorexia nervosa. People should get their facts straight and be more understanding.Go Calista!(and Ally:). Sorry to see you go.

This show was great....we woman really think like that...must of been a mans choice to take it off the air!

I never watched the show until it started being repeated on other channels. Then I became hooked during the last two seasons only to have it cancelled. It was funny and nice to watch someone who was a little crazy.

great show but ratings fell so low

cant stand the show, shes so freakin ugly

At first it was funny, but it seemed that the writers didn't know whay it was funny and lost it.

Main charactor was insane. Bad writing.

Liked this one.

Funny, touching, wacky, always unexpected...sometimes the wackiness was annoying though.

It actually was an enjoyable show but the show jumped the shark after the 2000 season, when some of the original cast started leaving. After that, Ally slipping and falling down, Peter Macnichol's nostril whistles, and that nagging computer-generated baby gets old very quick. They had to rely on cameos toward the end to make the show almost interesting but not. I will not miss this show.

If either Gil Bellows or Robert Downey Jr. didn't leave the show, I think this could have been the best show through the end. Unfortunately, they both left leaving us with an absolutely horrible final season. During the first few seasons I watched every week and loved it. I wopuld have given it a 5 if it weren't for that last season.P.S. That last epeisode was worse than the final one of Seinfeld, it had absoulutly no sense of finality to it and made me hate it.

I don't miss it. It just looked so fake in the comercials that it just never grabbed my attention.

GET A FATTER PERSON NEXT TIME

Shock humor. I hate it. Calista needs to look in the mirror. David E. Kelley needs to pull a murder-suicide involving Michelle Phieffer. I would die a happy man if I never hear anything about this show ever again.

Although I am glad to see stubborn, and less than funny Ally go, I will miss the comedy that went with it, plus all the characters (excluding the very annoying ally)

It was up and down in quality, but what I liked about it was how it dealt with mental health and depression (although not necessarily in a direct manner). The episode when Billy died was powerful.

for the 5 season run = 3 last season = 3 Started off as 1 of tv's best shows, then went a bit over the top! As a result, show's quality declined, so did the ratings!