The Good Wife 2.13
Feb. 3rd, 2011 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakOne of the episodes which make you go "I love my show!". Because it was great, and I do.
Early on I was wondering whether this was The Good Wife's take on the reverse point of view episode (see also: Downloaded for early BSG, The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father for Babylon 5), which wasn't really the case, but we still got far more detail on how the attorney's office works from their own pov than we did before. People, I am really torn whether or not I want Cary to rejoin L & G because not only is he really good at what he does now but I also like his work dynamic with his colleague, his new investigator, his secret meetings with Kalinda, and the fact the episode made it clear that the case wasn't just about defeating Alicia in court but also about the issue at hand. So basically while I had liked the dymamics at L & G with Cary working there just fine, this is even better. Hm. Hmmmmm.
Also, as opposed to last week, Alicia didn't feel tagged on but crucial, which is how it should be. Loved the scene with Wendy Scott-Carr, and the way Alicia responded throughout. When Wendy pulled out the Zack-n-Becca leaflet, you could feel the cold rage in Alicia and yet she did not blow up, she did her quiet steel thing, which I really appreciate about her. That was some fine acting, too, as was the scene with Eli near the end of the episode when he stops by to tell her about Becca, Zack and the campaign. That sudden release, and you understand how very worried Alicia had been, but she hadn't shown it to the world until then. (Incidentally, the fact Eli showed up was a rather touching gesture on his part.) Then there was her reaction re: Bishop, both in the room with the partners and with Kalinda. "Do you ever wonder whether we're on the wrong side?" Quite.
The two scenes with Peter were excellent as well, covering as they did different aspects of their relationship - parenting, which they're in synch at, and their married life, which is still off kilter. Can't make up my mind re: the last scene. At first I interpreted the "I love you" - "I know" as basically the anti Empire Strikes Back situation, because Alicia isn't Han Solo. She doesn't say it back, thought I, because she doesn't feel it anymore. I'm still inclined to that interpretation but while at first I thought her retreat in her room was an additional emphasis here now I think the fact she left the door open means she agrees to Peter's earlier request to share rooms again. Either way, I inevitably like their scenes together, which feel very real and atypical for tv m/f relationships to me; marriages usually come either as idyllic, completely broken or love/hate, and Alicia/Peter isn't any of that.
Peter telling the pack to get lost despite the fact this means no more money for the campaign: family concern, strategy to win Alicia back, fueled by realisation he's losing anyway, any or all of the above? Discuss. Though in actual tv narrative fact, I am pretty sure another financer will turn up, because there is no way they'll let the rest of the season play out with only Childs and Wendy racing against each other.
Eli and Becca: while I agree withabigail_n that Becca is that oddity on this show, a completely one note clichéd female character (as opposed to all the other women), my audience strings were pulled nonetheless as Eli gave a great example of what they're actually paying him for.
Return of Bishop the mob boss: you know, I 'm really glad Cary's colleague got a much bigger role this week, because otherwise we'd have two black gangsters and one shady black lawyer in this episode. So yay for junior young attorney counterbalancing that!
Kalinda's past life: Childs now investigating is iiiinnntersting in a way Blake's continued thing is not (talk about one-note characters). Considering all the set up with Cary, methinks we're heading to a moral dilemma situation for Cary soon where he'll have to choose between Kalinda and job advancement, or even the job. Kalinda either empoyed a good poker face or is genuinenly less worried about the Blake situation than she is about the Childs situation, which makes me suspect she actually is not identical with the Leela Blake traced in the records, though I'm equally sure Kalinda was not her given name.
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Early on I was wondering whether this was The Good Wife's take on the reverse point of view episode (see also: Downloaded for early BSG, The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father for Babylon 5), which wasn't really the case, but we still got far more detail on how the attorney's office works from their own pov than we did before. People, I am really torn whether or not I want Cary to rejoin L & G because not only is he really good at what he does now but I also like his work dynamic with his colleague, his new investigator, his secret meetings with Kalinda, and the fact the episode made it clear that the case wasn't just about defeating Alicia in court but also about the issue at hand. So basically while I had liked the dymamics at L & G with Cary working there just fine, this is even better. Hm. Hmmmmm.
Also, as opposed to last week, Alicia didn't feel tagged on but crucial, which is how it should be. Loved the scene with Wendy Scott-Carr, and the way Alicia responded throughout. When Wendy pulled out the Zack-n-Becca leaflet, you could feel the cold rage in Alicia and yet she did not blow up, she did her quiet steel thing, which I really appreciate about her. That was some fine acting, too, as was the scene with Eli near the end of the episode when he stops by to tell her about Becca, Zack and the campaign. That sudden release, and you understand how very worried Alicia had been, but she hadn't shown it to the world until then. (Incidentally, the fact Eli showed up was a rather touching gesture on his part.) Then there was her reaction re: Bishop, both in the room with the partners and with Kalinda. "Do you ever wonder whether we're on the wrong side?" Quite.
The two scenes with Peter were excellent as well, covering as they did different aspects of their relationship - parenting, which they're in synch at, and their married life, which is still off kilter. Can't make up my mind re: the last scene. At first I interpreted the "I love you" - "I know" as basically the anti Empire Strikes Back situation, because Alicia isn't Han Solo. She doesn't say it back, thought I, because she doesn't feel it anymore. I'm still inclined to that interpretation but while at first I thought her retreat in her room was an additional emphasis here now I think the fact she left the door open means she agrees to Peter's earlier request to share rooms again. Either way, I inevitably like their scenes together, which feel very real and atypical for tv m/f relationships to me; marriages usually come either as idyllic, completely broken or love/hate, and Alicia/Peter isn't any of that.
Peter telling the pack to get lost despite the fact this means no more money for the campaign: family concern, strategy to win Alicia back, fueled by realisation he's losing anyway, any or all of the above? Discuss. Though in actual tv narrative fact, I am pretty sure another financer will turn up, because there is no way they'll let the rest of the season play out with only Childs and Wendy racing against each other.
Eli and Becca: while I agree with
abigail_n that Becca is that oddity on this show, a completely one note clichéd female character (as opposed to all the other women), my audience strings were pulled nonetheless as Eli gave a great example of what they're actually paying him for. Return of Bishop the mob boss: you know, I 'm really glad Cary's colleague got a much bigger role this week, because otherwise we'd have two black gangsters and one shady black lawyer in this episode. So yay for junior young attorney counterbalancing that!
Kalinda's past life: Childs now investigating is iiiinnntersting in a way Blake's continued thing is not (talk about one-note characters). Considering all the set up with Cary, methinks we're heading to a moral dilemma situation for Cary soon where he'll have to choose between Kalinda and job advancement, or even the job. Kalinda either empoyed a good poker face or is genuinenly less worried about the Blake situation than she is about the Childs situation, which makes me suspect she actually is not identical with the Leela Blake traced in the records, though I'm equally sure Kalinda was not her given name.
In other news:
halfamoon offers a great post about C.J. Cregg of West Wing fame !
