Ally McBeal (Seasons 1–5)

Ally McBeal (1997) is a Fox comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, created by David E. Kelley. Five seasons, 1997 to 2002, built around a Boston attorney whose imagination runs so loud it practically has its own speaking role.

Calista Flockhart's Ally lands a job at the eccentric firm Cage & Fish — only to find that her college boyfriend Billy is already there, married to someone else and sitting at the next desk. The firm itself is its own problem: John Cage (Peter MacNicol) has courtroom habits no law school teaches, Nelle (Jane Krakowski) has opinions about everything, and the unisex bathroom somehow solves more cases than the conference room. Lucy Liu, Robert Downey Jr., and James Marsden all turned up across the run.

The show took the Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series in 1998 and spent five years being both praised and argued over — a first for a network drama led by a woman who was allowed to be messy, funny, and genuinely confused. Stream every season of Ally McBeal online on iFILM.