Yet it worked as a lively version of the genre. Other new shows turned out to be less daring than they promised. Lily and Rick Sela Ward and Billy Campbell , the divorced parents who find each other, have become tiresome and annoying. The secondary characters are much more absorbing, and the show picks up conspicuously when they become the focus: the children are believably difficult and confused; so are Lily's sister, who fell for a married man, and Rick's ex-wife, who fell for a younger man.
Maybe Rick and Lily should just run off-screen together, leaving the show in better shape. It took "Once and Again" just a few months to age badly. Better series take years before those signs show, and "The Practice" is approaching that point. The season's best episodes came in a recent story line in which Ellenor Camryn Manheim tried to save a man from death row.
Sunday's exceptional finale displays the series' continued power, in an emotionally strong story about a woman Marlee Matlin on trial for shooting the man who raped and killed her 7-year-old daughter.
The show's weariness is apparent in the wedding plot, which is wrapped up with a surprise that seems forced. The danger for series like "The Practice" became evident in a recent episode in which Eugene Steve Harris wonders yet again why he defends guilty lowlifes.
How many times can the lawyers on "The Practice" ask that question? How many trials can the doctors on "E. Do we believe that John Carter Noah Wyle became a drug addict because he was stabbed by a patient? Or is he just another victim of the writers' desperation?
Duchovny will return for half of next season. In a turn both brilliant and obvious, aliens reportedly will abduct his character on Sunday's finale and he will be lost in space at the beginning of next season. But like "E. Well, D'oh!
While many dramas have aged badly, a block of finales on Sunday displays the rich long-term possibilities of well-written, irreverent comedies. Sunday's finale is a parody of VH-1's "Behind the Music," which takes a backstage view of the Simpsons' dysfunctional route to sitcom stardom in "Behind the Laughter. Sunday's finale takes them to a country music festival loaded with guest voices, including Randy Travis's. But last week's episode was funnier, with Sydney Pollack as a podiatrist who puts Peggy Hill's size 16 feet on an Internet site for foot fetishists.
The series quickly moved beyond the idea that Malcolm, the middle child played with endearing mischievousness by Frankie Muniz , is a genius. The appeal of the show is that this family is typical in its shouting, squabbling and mean tricks.
It even gets away with a mother Jane Kaczmarek who dishes out lovingly vicious punishments. On Sunday's episode, while the rest of the family goes to the beach, the youngest child, Dewey Erik Per Sullivan , is left behind with the baby sitter Beatrice Arthur , who ends up doing a stellar flamenco with him.
Not every finale says something about the broad television landscape, of course. Performers include: Amy Brenneman, Richard T. They move in with her widowed and strong-willed mother, Maxine Tyne Daly. Maxine is a caseworker for the Department of Children and Family Services and works under Sean Potter Timothy Omundson , who is often frustrated by her unorthodox methods. While balancing career with family, she makes a name for herself in family court for her stubbornness and unusual methods.
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