EPISODE
SEASON
Ally McBeal - Season 4
The fourth season completes a new series, as there is a new opportunity to get advice from Rainier on some matters. Now, it seems that the therapist understands her problems in an odd way, while eventually she decides to separate from Brian, which raises great controversy in her life. One day, she discovers that the new therapist is not really a therapist at all, but an attorney already as she tries to understand what happened.
28 October 1950, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
26 October 1961, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
18 July 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 June 1953, Sumatra, Indonesia
15 August 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 January 1975, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
24 December 1940, Chicago, Illinois, USA
31 October 1942, Peoria, Illinois, USA
20 November 1975
30 April 1980, Singapore
22 December 1949, Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
20 January 1963, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
22 July 1928, Burlington, Vermont, USA
26 November 1939, Nutbush, Tennessee, USA
20 October 1950, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
March 13, 2019
Oh, it's still over-the-top and tacky... But "Ally" is offbeat and loony again instead of just plain stupid and tawdry. And Downey deserves a great deal of credit for the show's revival.
March 12, 2019
Fortunately, the arrival of Downey to play Flockhart's new guy provides an instant change of course that's much easier to accept... Downey brings, dare one say, sanity and stability to a series that has been revelling in inane nuttiness.
March 12, 2019
Downey is a real actor who is selling the character rather than playing for a sitcom punch line. His presence gives the hour a dramatic ballast it desperately lacked.
March 12, 2019
Downey's "Ally" portrayal of lawyer Larry Paul is one of the high points of current television. He takes the romantic byplay David E. Kelly has written for Larry and Calista Flockhart's Ally and runs with it.
April 16, 2018
The Fox series Ally McBeal, after an offputting, oddball last season, is back in the romantic comedy groove, helped in no small part by the temporary addition of rehabbing actor Robert Downey Jr. to an already great cast.
March 13, 2019
Creator David E. Kelley's slapstick musical paean to the modern working woman reached a pinnacle of excellence in its fourth season... a study in how to push your series' lead to her breaking point without ringing a single false note.
March 12, 2019
Mr. Downey's astonishing work on ''Ally McBeal'' may be as good as anything anyone has done on a television series
March 12, 2019
That's what's so confounding about Robert Downey Jr. This guy seems like the world's biggest screw-up, and yet he's been turning in some of the most winning performances seen on TV all season.
