Ally McBeal (TV Series) One Hundred Tears Away (1997) User Reviews

Everyone has been there

[jdthird · 8/10 · 30 October 2021]

Who hasn't been in one of the situations they talk about here, a confrontation of some sort in public, at a store, anywhere. Life is full of moments like these, and most people just swallow the emotion and move along.

It goes a bit to extremes with the investigation about her "sanity" but this episode has one of my favorite lines in the entire series. Whipper makes a comment to Ally that she doesn't think Ally has both feet on the ground. Ally gets this perplexed look on her face, cocks her head slightly to the side in an adorably confused expression, and says, "You mean some people DO?"

Well acted all around though, and a lot in this episode that we can all relate to.

Shopping Market Scene at the Beginning was Hysterical

[jayraskin · 10/10 · 11 June 2014]

At the beginning of this episode, there is a marvelous scene in a supermarket where Ally gets into a fight with another shopper over a container of potato chips. It is a beautifully written and acted scene of comic escalation done with perfect timing. It gets the episode off to a great start and leads to all kinds of surprising developments.

I think it beautifully shows what is wrong with the "Stand your ground" laws in the U.S. You get two strong willed people in an argument and they're just going to go at it until one of them wins. The Stand your Ground laws provides a motivation for one person to quickly turn to violence.

In this case, Ally doesn't pull out a gun, but she does do something quite nasty.

This is another great first season episode.