Is there a bigger hack than David E Kelley?

Um. No. Obviously not. It's him. By far. Biggest hack.

I liked his 90’s shows: Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, and Ally McBeal.

Well, yes...

He has to be be doing something right if he's married to this:

You know who is teetering with the title if he foists another POSE on us anytime soon.

He came into LA Law in its second year and was responsible for some of its best storylines.

Picket Fences was art. The Practice was provocative and interesting.

Ally McBeal was obnoxiously popular for a minute.

Haven't really cared about any of his productions since, but he wrote some of the best TV drama there was, for a while.

La Law , picket Fences. The man has uncanny insight

Lake Placid was fun, but it wasn’t as fun as it thought it was.

And Anatomy of A Scandal. I liked it.

I’m 3/4 done with Anatomy of a Scandal & really like it. I also like Bog Sky & of course loved Big Little Lies. He’s not a hack!

Always loathed him. In my country LA Law ran opposite Moonlighting, and people were sharply divided into the type that watched the Kelley show and the type that watched the Caron. I was team Maddie and Dave.

But then came Ally McBeal and all of the main female cast got anorexia. That is one bad guy.

Is Michelle anorexic ?

She was for years, but seems to have given it up in late middle age.

Picket Fences was great. The first 2-3 seasons of The Practice were great too. With his other stuff, your mileage may vary.

The Ally McBeak as feminist icon barely lasted into the year 2000.

I liked Boston Legal 😐

Michelle has always looked better with more weight on and happier

Boston Legal is probably my favorite show. I said in another thread that Alan Shore is my role model as an attorney.

I just watched Anatomy of a Scandal and it was very entertaining. And Kelley wrote that one.

R6 Maybe you've heard of a little show called Big Little Lies. He wrote that. He may be a "hack" but at least he's a hack who can attract top talent.

Kidman and Witherspoon hired him to adapt the novel, not the other way round.

That said I liked The Practice, Boston Legal and Harry’s Law. The latter was particularly interesting in how straight Kathy Bates played it.

R17 they usually do.

Yes, Judd Apatow is a bigger hack. His ratio of good projects vs unwatchable is way worse than Kelley's.

I would say his ratio is around 1 on 5 being good. Anatomy of a scandal is embarrassing in its obviousness.

Yet, OP knows every one of his works. Clinical OCD, much?

R25 I liked Anatomy of a Scandal. And now I think Rupert Friend should be James Bond.

Loved Anatomy of A Scandal. Sienna Miller and Michelle Dockery were brilliant. I had no clue David E. Kelley had anything to do with it.

Smell that shoe.

[quote] His characters all range from obnoxious to repulsive. There is a pervasive smugness to all of his work that makes my skin crawl. He seems to write variations of the same story again and again

Don't you mean Aaron Sorkin?

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