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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 (54,333 votes)
Episode average
8.1 -0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons
5
Streaming (US)
Hulu
Language
EN
Type
TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 5 seasons indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (2004)

8.15 avg 17 episodes 8.0 → 8.9 43 min avg

Ep 1: 8.0 · 914 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 695 votesEp 3: 8.1 · 621 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 580 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 553 votesEp 6: 8.1 · 558 votesEp 7: 8.0 · 534 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 564 votesEp 9: 8.2 · 536 votesEp 10: 8.7 · 590 votesEp 11: 8.3 · 568 votesEp 12: 7.6 · 548 votesEp 13: 8.2 · 518 votesEp 14: 8.2 · 516 votesEp 15: 8.1 · 509 votesEp 16: 7.8 · 496 votesEp 17: 8.9 · 669 votes
Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Head Cases8.0914
2Still Crazy After All These Years8.0695
3Catch and Release8.1621
4Change of Course8.1580
5An Eye for an Eye8.0553
6Truth Be Told8.1558
7Questionable Characters8.0534
8Loose Lips8.3564
9A Greater Good8.2536
10Hired Guns8.7590
11Schmidt Happens8.3568
12From Whence We Came7.6548
13It Girls and Beyond8.2518
14'Til We Meat Again8.2516
15Tortured Souls8.1509
16Let Sales Ring7.8496
17Death Be Not Proud8.9669

Season 2 (2005)

8.08 avg 27 episodes 7.7 → 8.4 44 min avg

Ep 1: 7.7 · 547 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 521 votesEp 3: 8.6 · 553 votesEp 4: 7.7 · 463 votesEp 5: 7.9 · 459 votesEp 6: 8.1 · 481 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 469 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 453 votesEp 9: 8.4 · 477 votesEp 10: 8.6 · 475 votesEp 11: 8.1 · 444 votesEp 12: 8.2 · 443 votesEp 13: 8.2 · 428 votesEp 14: 8.0 · 422 votesEp 15: 8.0 · 432 votesEp 16: 7.9 · 428 votesEp 17: 8.1 · 409 votesEp 18: 8.1 · 407 votesEp 19: 8.0 · 416 votesEp 20: 7.7 · 394 votesEp 21: 8.1 · 426 votesEp 22: 7.6 · 402 votesEp 23: 8.3 · 433 votesEp 24: 8.3 · 417 votesEp 25: 7.8 · 421 votesEp 26: 7.8 · 402 votesEp 27: 8.4 · 468 votes
Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Black Widow7.7547
2Schadenfreude8.4521
3Finding Nimmo8.6553
4A Whiff and a Prayer7.7463
5Men to Boys7.9459
6Witches of Mass Destruction8.1481
7Truly, Madly, Deeply8.1469
8The Ass Fat Jungle8.1453
9Gone8.4477
10Legal Deficits8.6475
11The Cancer Man Can8.1444
12Helping Hands8.2443
13Too Much Information8.2428
14Breast in Show8.0422
15Smile8.0432
16Live Big7.9428
17...There's Fire!8.1409
18Shock and Owww!8.1407
19Stick It8.0416
20Chitty Chitty Bang Bang7.7394
21Word Salad Days8.1426
22Ivan the Incorrigible7.6402
23Race Ipsa8.3433
24Deep End of the Poole8.3417
25Squid Pro Quo7.8421
26Spring Fever7.8402
27BL: Los Angeles8.4468

Season 3 (2006)

8.20 avg 24 episodes 8.2 → 8.4 43 min avg

Ep 1: 8.2 · 455 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 455 votesEp 3: 8.0 · 410 votesEp 4: 8.3 · 429 votesEp 5: 8.4 · 426 votesEp 6: 8.5 · 427 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 417 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 416 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 427 votesEp 10: 8.2 · 448 votesEp 11: 8.2 · 395 votesEp 12: 8.2 · 387 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 411 votesEp 14: 8.0 · 400 votesEp 15: 8.0 · 380 votesEp 16: 8.1 · 375 votesEp 17: 8.2 · 411 votesEp 18: 9.1 · 884 votesEp 19: 7.6 · 379 votesEp 20: 8.2 · 380 votesEp 21: 7.6 · 363 votesEp 22: 8.2 · 402 votesEp 23: 8.0 · 376 votesEp 24: 8.4 · 417 votes
Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Can't We All Get a Lung?8.2455
2New Kids on the Block8.4455
3Desperately Seeking Shirley8.0410
4Fine Young Cannibal8.3429
5Whose God Is It Anyway?8.4426
6The Verdict8.5427
7Trick or Treat8.1417
8Lincoln8.3416
9On the Ledge8.5427
10The Nutcrackers8.2448
11Angel of Death8.2395
12Nuts8.2387
13Dumping Bella8.0411
14Selling Sickness8.0400
15Fat Burner8.0380
16The Good Lawyer8.1375
17The Bride Wore Blood8.2411
18Son of the Defender9.1884
19Brotherly Love7.6379
20Guise 'n Dolls8.2380
21Tea and Sympathy7.6363
22Guantanamo by the Bay8.2402
23Duck and Cover8.0376
24Trial of the Century8.4417

Season 4 (2007)

7.81 avg 20 episodes 8.3 → 8.1 45 min avg

Ep 1: 8.3 · 463 votesEp 2: 8.1 · 382 votesEp 3: 7.7 · 378 votesEp 4: 7.5 · 386 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 393 votesEp 6: 7.6 · 363 votesEp 7: 7.3 · 375 votesEp 8: 7.5 · 357 votesEp 9: 7.6 · 361 votesEp 10: 7.7 · 344 votesEp 11: 8.1 · 368 votesEp 12: 7.3 · 370 votesEp 13: 7.6 · 369 votesEp 14: 7.3 · 342 votesEp 15: 7.6 · 342 votesEp 16: 8.7 · 456 votesEp 17: 8.8 · 548 votesEp 18: 7.5 · 343 votesEp 19: 7.9 · 369 votesEp 20: 8.1 · 361 votes
Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Beauty and the Beast8.3463
2The Innocent Man8.1382
3The Chicken and the Leg7.7378
4Do Tell7.5386
5Hope and Gory8.0393
6The Object of My Affection7.6363
7Attack of the Xenophobes7.3375
8Oral Contracts7.5357
9No Brains Left Behind7.6361
10Green Christmas7.7344
11Mad About You8.1368
12Roe vs Wade: The Musical7.3370
13Glow in the Dark7.6369
14Rescue Me7.3342
15Tabloid Nation7.6342
16The Mighty Rogues8.7456
17The Court Supreme8.8548
18Indecent Proposals7.5343
19The Gods Must Be Crazy7.9369
20Patriot Acts8.1361

Season 5 (2008)

8.10 avg 13 episodes 7.7 → 9.2 44 min avg

Ep 1: 7.7 · 380 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 349 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 353 votesEp 4: 8.5 · 412 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 331 votesEp 6: 7.6 · 348 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 345 votesEp 8: 7.8 · 336 votesEp 9: 7.5 · 315 votesEp 10: 8.4 · 389 votesEp 11: 8.0 · 346 votesEp 12: 8.5 · 361 votesEp 13: 9.2 · 633 votes
Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Smoke Signals7.7380
2Guardians and Gatekeepers8.0349
3Dances with Wolves7.9353
4True Love8.5412
5The Bad Seed8.1331
6Happy Trails7.6348
7Mad Cows8.1345
8Roe7.8336
9Kill, Baby, Kill!7.5315
10Thanksgiving8.4389
11Juiced8.0346
12Made in China8.5361
13Last Call9.2633

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