The Good Wife 6.07
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selenakI only had the chance to watch this now, due to Darth Real Life.
After two episodes in a row which I disliked in varying degrees, it was such a relief to get a great episode again. For the record, I still HATE HATE HATE that they're back in the old office and Florick & Agos has become Lockhart & Gardner renamed. Only if Alicia realises she's made a major mistake and moves out with Cary again will I ever be reconciled to it. But apart from that.
Every plot here smoothly entwined with the others here was great to watch. Ramona is a perfect addition for the show at this point, because she's very obviously Alicia as she was at the beginning of the show, an intelligent female lawyer who hasn't practiced for years due to having been a wife and mother, and who wants to get back into the game, gets a job due to a personal connection with the boss (i.e. Peter as Will, with the difference that Peter isn't in love with Ramona, though I wouldn't exclude the show going there later, especially since Ramona is Alicia's alter ego and they've done the fake out '"is Peter having an affair again? No he isn't!" a couple of times), gets patronized and looked down at at the new work place (Eli as practically everyone at L & G except Kalinda to Alicia at the start) but proves herself through smart lawyer fu in a critical situation.
Meanwhile, you have Alicia as she now is in the present day, top dog at the firm but hardly involved in its day to day business anymore because she's running for office, something which keeps demanding integrity sacrifices. This time, Alicia resists her two campaign managers suggestion to use an unfair weapon against a possible opponent, but at the end when Frank Brady comes to her she's nonetheless convinced he's just hypocritically faking it and has intended to run all along. I'm not so sure. I mean, he could be - and the way he handled her interview certainly argues for it, because surely a journalist with nothing else in mind would rather have asked the hardcore questions? - , but it's equally possible he was telling the truth and it was Castro using his youthful pro-Palestinian essay that settled running for him. Either way, it says something about Alicia six years down the road that she's grown so cynical to assume the worst without hesitation.
Incidentally: I knew the show would introduce a third candidate, because they did when Peter was running as well, and it muddies the waters so well. Boo hiss Castro is someone no one wants to win, but they could play Brady as someone in the respectable antagonist category, thus, if the show continues, letting Alicia lose without letting the bad guy win. (Because Alicia in political office is something the show could end with, but not do on a weekly basis.)(Alternatively, she could withdraw from the race for various reasons, of course.) (If otoh the show doesn't continue...)
Am relieved that Cary and Kalinda continue to have interactions even thirty feet apart, and that she continues to use her detective skills in awesome ways on his behalf. Mind you, with Lemond Bishop killing every witness she produces, I'm starting to worry for Kalinda given this is Archie Panjabi's last year. Though I don't really think they'd kill her off, it's too soon after Will, but she might fake her death and resume a new identity (again) to start life elsewhere because of Bishop. (Which would be a sense-making reason why Kalinda would suddenly leave Chicago.)
Finn Polmar continues to be an upstanding fellow, even though he's a bit too good and naive to be true for an Chicago ASA, surely - I mean, was he honestly surprised Castro wanted to get Cary (because of the impact on Alicia as his rival), not Bishop? Given how Castro has behaved the last one and a half seasons? Anyway: him moving next door to L & G makes it only a question of time before he joins the firm and there is literally the same situation re: Alicia with Finn-as-Will, which brings me again to that I hate the move back and the show abandoning its courage from last season for a genuine shakeup and game changer, instead reducing what happened to a mere reshuffling and replacing. But the episode was too good for this not to be a minor sour note in my overall glee.
After two episodes in a row which I disliked in varying degrees, it was such a relief to get a great episode again. For the record, I still HATE HATE HATE that they're back in the old office and Florick & Agos has become Lockhart & Gardner renamed. Only if Alicia realises she's made a major mistake and moves out with Cary again will I ever be reconciled to it. But apart from that.
Every plot here smoothly entwined with the others here was great to watch. Ramona is a perfect addition for the show at this point, because she's very obviously Alicia as she was at the beginning of the show, an intelligent female lawyer who hasn't practiced for years due to having been a wife and mother, and who wants to get back into the game, gets a job due to a personal connection with the boss (i.e. Peter as Will, with the difference that Peter isn't in love with Ramona, though I wouldn't exclude the show going there later, especially since Ramona is Alicia's alter ego and they've done the fake out '"is Peter having an affair again? No he isn't!" a couple of times), gets patronized and looked down at at the new work place (Eli as practically everyone at L & G except Kalinda to Alicia at the start) but proves herself through smart lawyer fu in a critical situation.
Meanwhile, you have Alicia as she now is in the present day, top dog at the firm but hardly involved in its day to day business anymore because she's running for office, something which keeps demanding integrity sacrifices. This time, Alicia resists her two campaign managers suggestion to use an unfair weapon against a possible opponent, but at the end when Frank Brady comes to her she's nonetheless convinced he's just hypocritically faking it and has intended to run all along. I'm not so sure. I mean, he could be - and the way he handled her interview certainly argues for it, because surely a journalist with nothing else in mind would rather have asked the hardcore questions? - , but it's equally possible he was telling the truth and it was Castro using his youthful pro-Palestinian essay that settled running for him. Either way, it says something about Alicia six years down the road that she's grown so cynical to assume the worst without hesitation.
Incidentally: I knew the show would introduce a third candidate, because they did when Peter was running as well, and it muddies the waters so well. Boo hiss Castro is someone no one wants to win, but they could play Brady as someone in the respectable antagonist category, thus, if the show continues, letting Alicia lose without letting the bad guy win. (Because Alicia in political office is something the show could end with, but not do on a weekly basis.)(Alternatively, she could withdraw from the race for various reasons, of course.) (If otoh the show doesn't continue...)
Am relieved that Cary and Kalinda continue to have interactions even thirty feet apart, and that she continues to use her detective skills in awesome ways on his behalf. Mind you, with Lemond Bishop killing every witness she produces, I'm starting to worry for Kalinda given this is Archie Panjabi's last year. Though I don't really think they'd kill her off, it's too soon after Will, but she might fake her death and resume a new identity (again) to start life elsewhere because of Bishop. (Which would be a sense-making reason why Kalinda would suddenly leave Chicago.)
Finn Polmar continues to be an upstanding fellow, even though he's a bit too good and naive to be true for an Chicago ASA, surely - I mean, was he honestly surprised Castro wanted to get Cary (because of the impact on Alicia as his rival), not Bishop? Given how Castro has behaved the last one and a half seasons? Anyway: him moving next door to L & G makes it only a question of time before he joins the firm and there is literally the same situation re: Alicia with Finn-as-Will, which brings me again to that I hate the move back and the show abandoning its courage from last season for a genuine shakeup and game changer, instead reducing what happened to a mere reshuffling and replacing. But the episode was too good for this not to be a minor sour note in my overall glee.
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Date: 2014-11-18 07:26 am (UTC)The move back into the office I'm not fond of either. I know they wanted to go full circle, and yet...