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Boston Legal will be missed.

Denny Crane and Alan Shore. They were brilliant, complex, and exquisite. Obviously, they are cancelled. Television covets maximum ratings and minimal cost. Viewers crave drama and simplicity. Evocative writing is unnecessary. Provocative substance is unwanted. Americans cannot observe and think. Our culture is cynical, insensitive, and narcissistic. Boston Legal never was. I will miss this.