7.043 minSeason 5 • Episode 22
LatestAfter Maddie passes out Ally finds out she is suffering from a nervous reaction to all the changes in her life, so Ally decides that the only way she can help her daughter is to move back to New York. While the news come as a big shock to the firm, Richard anticipates his wedding with Liza so Ally can attend the ceremony. While spending her last hours in the town, Ally gets a visit from Renee, Georgia and afterwards, Billy as a ghost...
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!
Acting
Flockhart's physical comedy is genuinely unhinged
Score
Vonda Shepard basically invented the musical inner monologue
Writing
Kelley's absurd legal cases that somehow win
Creator
David E. Kelley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show sparked real 90s debates about whether Ally was a feminist icon or an embarrassing stereotype—Time magazine literally put her on the cover asking 'Is Feminism Dead?'
Robert Downey Jr. joined Season 4 as Larry Paul and immediately became the show's best chemistry—until real-life drug arrests got him written out mid-arc, devastating the planned ending.
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