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Boston Legal (2004)

Comedy · Crime · Drama

Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.

IMDb rating
8.5 (53,630 votes)
Seasons
5
Streaming (US)
Hulu
Language
EN
Type
TV series
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Seasons

Season 1 (2004)

8.17 avg 17 episodes 8.0 → 8.9 43 min avg

  • Big finale
  • Rebound
Ep 1: 8.0 · 874 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 679 votesEp 3: 8.1 · 602 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 563 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 537 votesEp 6: 8.1 · 544 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 518 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 550 votesEp 9: 8.2 · 522 votesEp 10: 8.7 · 576 votesEp 11: 8.3 · 556 votesEp 12: 7.6 · 528 votesEp 13: 8.2 · 509 votesEp 14: 8.2 · 503 votesEp 15: 8.2 · 556 votesEp 16: 7.9 · 481 votesEp 17: 8.9 · 651 votes
Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Head Cases8.0874
2Still Crazy After All These Years8.0679
3Catch and Release8.1602
4Change of Course8.1563
5An Eye for an Eye8.0537
6Truth Be Told8.1544
7Questionable Characters8.1518
8Loose Lips8.3550
9A Greater Good8.2522
10Hired Guns8.7576
11Schmidt Happens8.3556
12From Whence We Came7.6528
13It Girls and Beyond8.2509
14'Til We Meat Again8.2503
15Tortured Souls8.2556
16Let Sales Ring7.9481
17Death Be Not Proud8.9651

Season 2 (2005)

8.09 avg 27 episodes 7.8 → 8.4 44 min avg

Ep 1: 7.8 · 526 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 511 votesEp 3: 8.6 · 544 votesEp 4: 7.7 · 444 votesEp 5: 7.9 · 443 votesEp 6: 8.1 · 471 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 455 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 439 votesEp 9: 8.4 · 462 votesEp 10: 8.6 · 465 votesEp 11: 8.1 · 427 votesEp 12: 8.2 · 429 votesEp 13: 8.2 · 416 votesEp 14: 8.0 · 407 votesEp 15: 8.0 · 419 votesEp 16: 7.9 · 414 votesEp 17: 8.1 · 397 votesEp 18: 8.1 · 397 votesEp 19: 8.0 · 404 votesEp 20: 7.7 · 380 votesEp 21: 8.1 · 415 votesEp 22: 7.6 · 389 votesEp 23: 8.3 · 424 votesEp 24: 8.3 · 410 votesEp 25: 7.8 · 406 votesEp 26: 7.8 · 391 votesEp 27: 8.4 · 463 votes
Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Black Widow7.8526
2Schadenfreude8.4511
3Finding Nimmo8.6544
4A Whiff and a Prayer7.7444
5Men to Boys7.9443
6Witches of Mass Destruction8.1471
7Truly, Madly, Deeply8.1455
8The Ass Fat Jungle8.1439
9Gone8.4462
10Legal Deficits8.6465
11The Cancer Man Can8.1427
12Helping Hands8.2429
13Too Much Information8.2416
14Breast in Show8.0407
15Smile8.0419
16Live Big7.9414
17...There's Fire!8.1397
18Shock and Owww!8.1397
19Stick It8.0404
20Chitty Chitty Bang Bang7.7380
21Word Salad Days8.1415
22Ivan the Incorrigible7.6389
23Race Ipsa8.3424
24Deep End of the Poole8.3410
25Squid Pro Quo7.8406
26Spring Fever7.8391
27BL: Los Angeles8.4463

Season 3 (2006)

8.18 avg 24 episodes 8.1 → 8.4 43 min avg

  • Rebound
Ep 1: 8.1 · 447 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 451 votesEp 3: 8.0 · 402 votesEp 4: 8.3 · 427 votesEp 5: 8.4 · 420 votesEp 6: 8.5 · 425 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 411 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 411 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 422 votesEp 10: 8.2 · 442 votesEp 11: 8.2 · 387 votesEp 12: 8.1 · 381 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 410 votesEp 14: 8.0 · 394 votesEp 15: 7.9 · 372 votesEp 16: 8.1 · 366 votesEp 17: 8.2 · 404 votesEp 18: 9.1 · 878 votesEp 19: 7.6 · 368 votesEp 20: 8.2 · 376 votesEp 21: 7.6 · 357 votesEp 22: 8.2 · 397 votesEp 23: 8.0 · 370 votesEp 24: 8.4 · 413 votes
Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Can't We All Get a Lung?8.1447
2New Kids on the Block8.4451
3Desperately Seeking Shirley8.0402
4Fine Young Cannibal8.3427
5Whose God Is It Anyway?8.4420
6The Verdict8.5425
7Trick or Treat8.1411
8Lincoln8.3411
9On the Ledge8.5422
10The Nutcrackers8.2442
11Angel of Death8.2387
12Nuts8.1381
13Dumping Bella8.0410
14Selling Sickness8.0394
15Fat Burner7.9372
16The Good Lawyer8.1366
17The Bride Wore Blood8.2404
18Son of the Defender9.1878
19Brotherly Love7.6368
20Guise 'n Dolls8.2376
21Tea and Sympathy7.6357
22Guantanamo by the Bay8.2397
23Duck and Cover8.0370
24Trial of the Century8.4413

Season 4 (2007)

7.80 avg 20 episodes 8.3 → 8.1 45 min avg

  • Rollercoaster
Ep 1: 8.3 · 456 votesEp 2: 8.1 · 371 votesEp 3: 7.7 · 368 votesEp 4: 7.5 · 375 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 382 votesEp 6: 7.5 · 371 votesEp 7: 7.3 · 507 votesEp 8: 7.5 · 346 votesEp 9: 7.6 · 348 votesEp 10: 7.7 · 332 votesEp 11: 8.1 · 356 votesEp 12: 7.3 · 354 votesEp 13: 7.6 · 355 votesEp 14: 7.2 · 350 votesEp 15: 7.6 · 333 votesEp 16: 8.7 · 451 votesEp 17: 8.8 · 542 votesEp 18: 7.5 · 334 votesEp 19: 7.9 · 360 votesEp 20: 8.1 · 349 votes
Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Beauty and the Beast8.3456
2The Innocent Man8.1371
3The Chicken and the Leg7.7368
4Do Tell7.5375
5Hope and Gory8.0382
6The Object of My Affection7.5371
7Attack of the Xenophobes7.3507
8Oral Contracts7.5346
9No Brains Left Behind7.6348
10Green Christmas7.7332
11Mad About You8.1356
12Roe vs Wade: The Musical7.3354
13Glow in the Dark7.6355
14Rescue Me7.2350
15Tabloid Nation7.6333
16The Mighty Rogues8.7451
17The Court Supreme8.8542
18Indecent Proposals7.5334
19The Gods Must Be Crazy7.9360
20Patriot Acts8.1349

Season 5 (2008)

8.12 avg 13 episodes 7.8 → 9.2 44 min avg

  • Big finale
  • Rollercoaster
Ep 1: 7.8 · 367 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 340 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 359 votesEp 4: 8.5 · 396 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 332 votesEp 6: 7.7 · 335 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 371 votesEp 8: 7.8 · 326 votesEp 9: 7.5 · 304 votesEp 10: 8.4 · 380 votesEp 11: 8.0 · 335 votesEp 12: 8.5 · 353 votesEp 13: 9.2 · 629 votes
Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Smoke Signals7.8367
2Guardians and Gatekeepers8.0340
3Dances with Wolves7.9359
4True Love8.5396
5The Bad Seed8.1332
6Happy Trails7.7335
7Mad Cows8.1371
8Roe7.8326
9Kill, Baby, Kill!7.5304
10Thanksgiving8.4380
11Juiced8.0335
12Made in China8.5353
13Last Call9.2629

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