Maddie (played by Hayden Panettiere) shows up on her doorstep, claiming to be her daughter, prompting Ally to faint. She gets to know her daughter over the course of several episodes. Her most significant love interest in this final season was Victor Morrison (played by Jon Bon Jovi) but the relationship deteriorated quite quickly as it was evident that Ally had thoughts for Larry. Subsequently, her daughter is harassed by schoolmates and suffers a shock, so Ally prioritizes her child over quest for love and decides to move to her daughter's home city of New York City. Reception In 2004, Ally was ranked number 75 in Bravo's list of The 100 Greatest TV Characters. In June 2010, Entertainment Weekly named her one of the "100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years". She was also listed in AOL's 100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters. Troy Patterson of Entertainment Weekly argued that Ally McBeal has similarities to Scarlett O'Hara of Gone with the Wind and that "Scarlett and Ally are fairy-tale princesses who bear about as much resemblance to real women as Barbie and Skipper." Patterson wrote that Ally is similar because she is also a child from a ruling class family, "pines hopelessly after an unavailable dreamboat", and has a "sassy black roommate" in place of a "mammy" to "comfort her". Numerous contemporaneous culture critics opined that even as a fictional character she was demeaning to women, specifically professional women, because of her perceived flightiness, lack of demonstrated legal knowledge, short skirts, and extreme emotional instability. Perhaps the most notorious example of the debate sparked by the show was on June 25, 1998, cover story of Time magazine, which juxtaposed McBeal with three pioneering feminists (Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem) and asked "Is Feminism Dead?". See also References External links Ally McBeal on IMDb Ally McBeal characters Television characters introduced in 1997 Fictional Harvard University people Fictional American lawyers Ally McBeal Fictional feminists and women's rights activists Crossover characters in television American female characters in television Fictional female lawyers