Ono

Re your blog on "The Practice"

I was wondering what you thought about the juxapositioning of Bobby's indignation over the Church 'protecting serial pedaphiles" with his equally
emphatic insistance that his firm protect a serial murderer.

Maureen

A couple of episodes back, Eugene and Jimmy got into a dispute over representing a clinic that did stem cell research. Eugene's anti-Catholic bias was then revealed. However, it wasn't just a bias, it was extreme anger that he began to take out everyone. Bobby finally comfroned him about and in his speech he accused Eugene or being anti-Catholic claimed that Eugene worshipped the law. The impression was that Eugene was unbalanced and Dylan was the complete one who had religion.However, the next episode is a total turn around for Dylan. He then decides to leave the Catholic Church.

It was kind'a wierd that it didn't seem to take much to "turn" him. I David Kelley's message is to gravitate towards Eugene, worship the law, be suspicious of religion, especially Catholicism. Dylan's worship of the law is what led him to conceal and not be bothered by the serial murderer that he was representing but be incensed over serial pedaphilia.

For some reason, I didn't take the episode to seriously because it did not seem fully thought out and we are not taken through the thinking and crises of Faith Dylan experiences. His decsion reeked of superficality. There might be more to this whole thing in the next few episodes. We'll see. I think one thing that the show tries to display is the consistency of the law and how it is the one thing in our lives that is constant and trust worthy. Catholicism now becomes a foil to display the steadfastness and consistency of the law compared to the secrecy and abusiveness of Catholic priests. It is all so preachy, I wish they'd drop this whole Catholic thing or at least make it more subtle and substantial