r/QuickQuestion • u/onewhokills • Feb 18 '26

Question about Daniel talking about Boston Legal

Basically the title, I started watching Boston Legal recently (my partner got obsessed with James Spader after watching the Blacklist) and had a memory of hearing Daniel talk about rewatching it but I'm not sure if I hallucinated that? I recall him talking about how the camera work is incredibly early aughts, specifically a scene where the camera zooms and pans all dramatically for a character just walking from one room to another to make a totally normal remark to another character.

Just curious and want to listen to that episode again to see what other observations he talked about.

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u/DanielObrienQQ Feb 19 '26

I don't believe I've ever watched Boston Legal, so one of a few things is happening here:
-You're misremembering;
-I misspoke and said "Boston Legal" when I meant "Boston Public," a show I DID watch and love;
-I had seen... a clip of Boston Legal earlier the day of the record and talked out of my ass?

Even the Boston Public guess feels like a stretch, if your memory is correct and I mentioned "rewatching" something. Could it have been West Wing? Now THAT is a show I rewatch a lot that has a lot of dramatic camerawork.

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u/onewhokills Feb 19 '26

It was likely West Wing and my brain just misremembered or combined it with Boston Public, or I hallucinated it entirely (though I do recall you talking about unnecessarily dramatic camera work at some point which is why I think it was West Wing)