James Spader’s Alan Shore was fragmented and poorly written. And I loved it.
The eighth and final season of The Practice is the type of season all TV shows fear: retooling. The actors in them know death is imminent. Some actors know it’s much sooner as they never actually make it to that season. It has happened to many shows, from Scrubs to Community, for various reasons. Creator and producer David E. Kelly fired the majority of the main cast without much explanation given on the show (the real reason was budget cutting as that final season was kind of a gift). Even while a story carries from the previous season to the final, everyone else is just gone with not much of a hoot why. But it’s okay. They brought in James Spader.Read More