This time, the husband forsakes any claim to the alimony he'll receive now that their breakup will be a divorce, not an annulment - and says that he loved his wife and would have stayed with her, but that she changed the terms of their marriage, apparently by asking for sex. That would drive almost any man to page through the Victoria's Secret catalogue for a little consolation. While Cage warns that this slant on the case might be hard on his client's self-esteem, the show never really suggests that it is incorrect. Nevertheless, when the woman predictably shows up in his office to seduce him, Fish is as horrified as if he were the last camper left in the Blair Witch woods. She looks more like your average law firm partner than the Blair Witch.
Television seems increasingly to believe that ordinary people's looks are unspeakably horrible.
Perhaps living with Michelle Pfeiffer has given David E. Kelley an unrealistic sense of the world. Past Reviews Message Boards Julie Hilden , a FindLaw contributor, is the author of the memoir, The Bad Daughter. Her weekly reviews of the past season's Ally McBeal episodes are located in FindLaw's Insider Reviews archives .