The Practice focused on the law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates (later becoming Donnell, Young, Dole, & Frutt, and ultimately Young, Frutt, & Berluti). Plots typically featured the firm's involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirrored current events at the time of the episodes' initial broadcast. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme.

Whoopi Goldberg, star of Ghost and The Color Purple, made her first splash off-Broadway with a one-woman show of vivid characters called The Spook Show--a title dropped when the show transferred to Broadway proper, which was then turned into a TV special called Direct From Broadway in 1985. Twenty years later she revisits some of these characters in Back to Broadway, such as the sharp-tongued junkie Fontaine--who sounds off on a whole spectrum of contemporary political issues, making this as much a stand-up comedy routine as a character monologue. Whoopi: Back to Broadway also includes Direct From Broadway and the contrast between Whoopi's young, hungry self and the supremely confident self of 2005 is fascinating, as are the two different versions she presents of a character called only the Cripple--a physically disabled woman who finds herself resisting the affections of a man who falls in love with her. The differences are not as simple as youthful dynamism vs. emotional maturity; the early performances focus on the characters, while in the 2005 show the characters are more of a channel through which Whoopi projects herself. Her appeal lies not so much in the originality of her observations--little she says will surprise anyone of a liberal persuasion--but in her emotional conviction. She speaks what she believes to be the Truth-with-a-capital-T, yet never seems preachy or didactic. That--combined with her comic timing and sheer charisma--makes for two rich, rewarding evenings. --Bret Fetzer

多個世紀以來，人類不斷尋找來自太空的外來生物，但這些生物會否其實已經活生生的圍繞在我們四周？《來者不善》講述佛羅里達州一小鎮在一場風暴後所發生的重重怪事。到底怪事與風暴有否關連?而怪事的真相又能否被解開？我們應該怎樣去面對？

故事由一個育有兩個兒女，在離婚後娶了一個任職電視台記者為妻子的國家公園管理員 Russell Varon，為了追查於颶風吹襲後所發生的一切怪事開始。雖然 Russell 的現任妻子 Larkin Groves 之弟弟 Dave，一個有陰謀論的偏執狂確信這是外星人的陰謀，但 Russell 卻認為這只是 Dave 的幻想及誤解，外星陰謀根本並不存在。但當他的小女兒 Rose 告知她在颶風吹襲時於湖邊看到很多神秘光芒，以及失蹤多時，於颶風吹襲後無故赤裸出現在湖邊，並突然失去部份記憶的前妻 Mariel Underlay 後，Russell 也不得不開始去追查事實的真相。

身為 Russell 前妻的丈夫，以及這個被颶風吹襲，位於佛羅里達州某小鎮的警長 Tom Underlay，開始為小鎮的重建而忙碌著，但他所採取的措施及行動，如把整個災區給隔籬，就令很多人感到莫明奇妙。那麼，在這個偏僻的小鎮中究竟隱藏著什麼關係於人類存亡的秘密？