The Good Wife 6.13
Mar. 2nd, 2015 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIn short: Lemond Bishop and Frank Prady related plot parts yay, Colin Sweeney related nay, because by now Colin Sweeney episodes tend to be terribly repetive.
Seriously. Other than the first one, they always include his current spouse/girl friend turning against him only to be won around in the last reel via money and sex. And they always have Alicia skeeved out by him yet finding a way to win the day legally for him regardless. Yawn. How much more often do we have to watch this? I mean, I get it that this time it's a part of Alicia's general story because she also realises how morally compromised she's become through the interaction with the rich donor, but that doesn't take from the infinite predicability of Colin Sweeney appearances. The mild potshot the episode takes at tv habits ("Debbie Conlon", the fictional Alicia character, in her scene with the Sweeney character being dressed in a cleavage exposing dress no lawyer would wear at her place of work, all the other female characters in the law office dressed similar) isn't a good enough satire to make up for this Sweeney induced boredom. It's not that he's amoral and very likely a killer, show, it's that he's ceased to be entertaining several seasons ago.
The rest of the episode was good, though. Mind you, I'd be more impressed with Lemond Bishop restraining himself for his son's sake and doing the normal thing if school bullyng happens, i.e. call the parents of the bully, instead of having the other kid killed or seriously hurt if Lemond Bishop hadn't killed his son's mother. (No restraint there, apparantly, because it's not like the boy needs her.) (Kudos for the show to finally bring up that part again, because yes, it's exactly the kind of thing Dylan would be taunted with at school.) Also, I always love Bishop and Kalinda scenes, and it seems they have another ongoing plot, since the matter of the other car following her wasn't cleared up in this episode.
Frank Prady continues to be an honorable opponent, and actually at the moment is more honorable than Alicia, since he didn't stand for Rich Potential Donor talking sexist trash about her while she listened to the homophobic rants by Rich Potential Donor about Prady. Alicia at the end of the episode is aware of just how much in the mire she's sunk and hence can only reply to Grace's "you're the best person I know" by crying. It makes me currently wonder whether this storyline will end with Prady as State Attorney, either because Alicia realises if she continues with this there won't be anything left of her integrity, and gets out of the campaign. The episode puts three character to a character test - Kalinda with Bishop, and she passes by going back to his house despite her very founded fear of him when she believes he'll harm that kid, Prady when he cuts the revolting donor short (he doesn't know the guy is a homophobe who wouldn't have given him money anyway at that point), rather losing his money than listening to his tirades, and Alicia when she's in exactly the same situation as Prady later is - but stays, and doesn't say she's supportive of gay rights, too. It's exactly the opposite of how these kind of situations usually are played, with the virtuous heroine refusing the money (seriously, the guy was that much over the top that I thought at first it was a deliberate test by him, too, and he wanted to find out which of the two would talk back to him, but then when Prady had left the room we got the line to his daughter, which meant he was for real). But it's the type of choice we've seen Alicia make before, as in season 4 when she broke her promise to Cary and the other fourth years after Will and Diane had bribed her with a partnership; she's definitely become pragmatic enough. So much so that I now want her to relearn to be un-pragmatic again. Can she?
Seriously. Other than the first one, they always include his current spouse/girl friend turning against him only to be won around in the last reel via money and sex. And they always have Alicia skeeved out by him yet finding a way to win the day legally for him regardless. Yawn. How much more often do we have to watch this? I mean, I get it that this time it's a part of Alicia's general story because she also realises how morally compromised she's become through the interaction with the rich donor, but that doesn't take from the infinite predicability of Colin Sweeney appearances. The mild potshot the episode takes at tv habits ("Debbie Conlon", the fictional Alicia character, in her scene with the Sweeney character being dressed in a cleavage exposing dress no lawyer would wear at her place of work, all the other female characters in the law office dressed similar) isn't a good enough satire to make up for this Sweeney induced boredom. It's not that he's amoral and very likely a killer, show, it's that he's ceased to be entertaining several seasons ago.
The rest of the episode was good, though. Mind you, I'd be more impressed with Lemond Bishop restraining himself for his son's sake and doing the normal thing if school bullyng happens, i.e. call the parents of the bully, instead of having the other kid killed or seriously hurt if Lemond Bishop hadn't killed his son's mother. (No restraint there, apparantly, because it's not like the boy needs her.) (Kudos for the show to finally bring up that part again, because yes, it's exactly the kind of thing Dylan would be taunted with at school.) Also, I always love Bishop and Kalinda scenes, and it seems they have another ongoing plot, since the matter of the other car following her wasn't cleared up in this episode.
Frank Prady continues to be an honorable opponent, and actually at the moment is more honorable than Alicia, since he didn't stand for Rich Potential Donor talking sexist trash about her while she listened to the homophobic rants by Rich Potential Donor about Prady. Alicia at the end of the episode is aware of just how much in the mire she's sunk and hence can only reply to Grace's "you're the best person I know" by crying. It makes me currently wonder whether this storyline will end with Prady as State Attorney, either because Alicia realises if she continues with this there won't be anything left of her integrity, and gets out of the campaign. The episode puts three character to a character test - Kalinda with Bishop, and she passes by going back to his house despite her very founded fear of him when she believes he'll harm that kid, Prady when he cuts the revolting donor short (he doesn't know the guy is a homophobe who wouldn't have given him money anyway at that point), rather losing his money than listening to his tirades, and Alicia when she's in exactly the same situation as Prady later is - but stays, and doesn't say she's supportive of gay rights, too. It's exactly the opposite of how these kind of situations usually are played, with the virtuous heroine refusing the money (seriously, the guy was that much over the top that I thought at first it was a deliberate test by him, too, and he wanted to find out which of the two would talk back to him, but then when Prady had left the room we got the line to his daughter, which meant he was for real). But it's the type of choice we've seen Alicia make before, as in season 4 when she broke her promise to Cary and the other fourth years after Will and Diane had bribed her with a partnership; she's definitely become pragmatic enough. So much so that I now want her to relearn to be un-pragmatic again. Can she?
