Hello
I just started watching season three of Boston Public and I was wondering why Jessalyn Gilsig left and Lauren wasn't written out and why Nicky Katt ended up leaving. I mean, these two were very popular characters, right?
Well, its clear that Gilsig was replaced by Jeri Ryan (god knows why) and Nicky Katt wasalso undercut with really poor material in season 2. Both probably wanted better stuff, but didn't get it and left.
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The writing in Season 2 was really bad for those characters. I really don't know why the show went a different way in Season 2. Jeri Ryan is very beautiful but her character wasn't as likeable as Jessalyn Gilsig's character from the first season. In my opinion, halfway through the second season, the show began to really tank due to bad storylines.
shareThat's because halfway through Season 2 David E Kelley had stopped writing the episodes. That's a pattern with his shows. Picket Fences took a serious nose-dive in the quality of writing after Season 3, Chicago Hope was good for a bit after he stopped writing in Season 2, then really went downhill for the rest of the series (though it was still very entertaining and watchable). L.A. Law really went downhill after the 1992 season when DEK left to do his own show (Picket Fences).
Harry Hamlin left L.A. Law; Peter MacNicol and Mandy Patinkin left Chicago Hope when DEK made it clear that he wouldn't be handling the writing and most of the supervision of the shows. I'm sure at least Nicky Katt decided to leave when DEK stopped writing, and I'm sure Jessalyn was the same way.
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