The Good Fight (Season 5 review)

The fifth and, I take it, the final season of this show confirmed to me that this is a spin-off which all in all I prefer to the original. (The Good Wife started out strongly, but derailed so much for me that I never watched the final season.) Not least because it managed to remain an ensemble show, and impressively ambitious in its surreal black humor in how it responded to the times it was produced in.

( Spoilery musings ensue. )

Black comedy with real emotional stakes as a way to depict the madness of our times: sounds easy, must have been fiendishly difficult to accomplish and get right. I'm very interest in what the Kings and the other writers will do next.

Candyhearts Exchange Letter

Dear Writer,

this is my first time in this exchange - I haven't done Chocolate Box before, either - and I'm very grateful to you for creating something for me in a fandom we share. My prompts are just that, prompts, not absolutes; if you have an idea that doesn't fit with any of them, but features (some of) the characters I asked for, I'll love it with added joyful surprise.

General DNWs:

A/B/O - if you want to write a werewolf AU for any of the canons I nominated, be my guest, but I'm really not into this particular type of story -, infantilisation, golden showers. Character bashing. (If the characters in question canonically loathe someone, you can of course include this, but I think you know the difference between that and having all characters agree about how terrible X is. Rape, unless it's canon and you want to explore how Character Y deals with the aftermath, or something like that.

General likes:

Character exploration, characters helping each other recover from trauma, messed up and/or co-dependent family relationships, witty banter, friendship against the odds, the occasional light moment in a darker story or conversely some serious character stuff thrown into a comedy fic.

Treats: are very welcome, including for fandoms from the tag list I did not list but which you know me to share.

( Highlander )

( The Hunger Games )

( James Bond (Craig Movies) )

( Star Wars: The Clone Wars )

( Farscape )

( Around the World in 80 Days (2021) )

( 18th Century CE RPF )