This was a wonderfully beautiful touching episode that grabs your heart at different levels. In parallel story lines, friendship, death, empathy and compassion are intertwined and acted perfectly by each cast member.
2 Reviews
Horrible
superfox_88821 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I did not see this episode in 1997, so I can only view it with regards to the present day when I did view it.
This episode could be called Bigotry, but it knows it. Fish's uncle dies, and by all accounts he's not a nice person. He is especially prejudiced against short people, a fact which Richard wants to highlight at the funeral. In a completely ridiculous storyline, it goes to court to see whether it is appropriate to bring this up in a church funeral. The Judge said everyone is entitled to their bigotries (are they?) so there's a full gospel dance number about short people being undeserving to live.
The main story though, is Ally defending a transgender sex worker. Bigotry ahoy! When this episode first aired, it probably felt groundbreaking to tackle the "big issues", but twenty five years later it has not aged well. Stephanie is constantly misgendered and Ally even tries to get a defence of insanity on grounds of gender dysphoria and fetishism. Yikes.
The episode's only redeeming feature is Ally is not nearly as annoying as she has been up until this point, which is good to see.
This episode could be called Bigotry, but it knows it. Fish's uncle dies, and by all accounts he's not a nice person. He is especially prejudiced against short people, a fact which Richard wants to highlight at the funeral. In a completely ridiculous storyline, it goes to court to see whether it is appropriate to bring this up in a church funeral. The Judge said everyone is entitled to their bigotries (are they?) so there's a full gospel dance number about short people being undeserving to live.
The main story though, is Ally defending a transgender sex worker. Bigotry ahoy! When this episode first aired, it probably felt groundbreaking to tackle the "big issues", but twenty five years later it has not aged well. Stephanie is constantly misgendered and Ally even tries to get a defence of insanity on grounds of gender dysphoria and fetishism. Yikes.
The episode's only redeeming feature is Ally is not nearly as annoying as she has been up until this point, which is good to see.
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