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I was momentarily distracted from this enjoyable season opener by the fact our main actress changed her hairstyle. Weirdly, I did not mind the bangs at all with Ellen over at Damages - I think they suit Rose Byrnes - but on Alicia they felt a bit weird.



re: case of the week, it was okay. I was secretly afraid the headline-inspired choice of cases would lead the show to do a parallel to DSK of hotel maid rapipng infamy, but they went for the Palestinian/Israeli conflict instead, and came across as non-partisan as is possible. But one rarely watches this show for cases of the week; it's the dynamics that count, and the power politics.

So: Alicia and Kalinda are still uneasy with each other, but handling it in a professional way, and by the end of the episode are back to their smooth double act in professional terms though not yet personal ones. Kalinda and Cary screw each other over, which is ic but saddens me somewhat because I really liked their odd friendship in season 2 and did not like the appearance of Kalinda dumping Cary when she no longer needed him at the end of last season though she had so much on her mind and shut down emotionally in the wake of the Alicia disaster that I blamed it on this one. Sophie seems to have taken over Blake's role as the rival investigator with Kalinda issues which lets me hope she'll get more characterisation and depth than Blake did; you might say last season's finale already started with that, but we'll see.

Sidenote: where is Cary's pal, the prime caretaker dad investigator? He was one of the best new season 2 addendums. Is the actor no longer available?

Alicia and Will seem to have decided to handle the obvious problem of an affair when he's also her boss by pretending to be hostile at work, which makes me tempted to quote Diane (though she says it for the wrong reason) about being the only adult left at the firm. (More Diane! More Diane please.) But maybe I'm unfair; there is no good solution on how to handle an affair with your boss. Also I was just wondering whether the show didn't present Alicia/Will as too easy, and then we got that great last scene, of Alicia between Peter's and the kids' departure and Will's arrival just looking in the mirror. And yes, she does have doubts. (Great acting, too.)

Alicia & her children are doing fine; Grace always sided more with her mother (which is a refreshing change to tv clichés), but I'm glad the show doesn't suddenly demonize Peter in order to simplify life for Alicia. So far the Peter-Alicia dynamic feels realistic for a couple in the process of separating/divorcing.

Date: 2011-09-27 08:14 am (UTC)
viggorlijah: Klee (Default)
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I loved that Peter's admiration for her brains showed through in his professional treatment of her as a clever opponent, and that he stayed out of the court until the end both for professional and painful personal reasons - and the look he gave her as they parted, a sense of physical longing and regret. I watched Sex and the City's second movie recently (I had the tv running in the background at a hotel and ended up just gaping at how awful it was) and The Good Wife is steak after a bad hotdog for that actor. He does Peter so well, that Will to me feels like second-best for Alicia. Peter just has depth and passion. Loved the bar scene with Will and Kalinda discussing how cold they both are.

My husband watched the opener with me, having never seen it before and has declared it too complicated for him, but also very good - he loved the jewish/muslim lobbying scenes. The acting is just so good.

Date: 2011-09-27 01:05 pm (UTC)
kalypso: Danny - I don't advise a haircut man (Danny)
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Happy Birthday!

I did get very bothered by Patty Hewes's change of hairstyle a season or two back. It just looked a mess which, given my lack of interest in hair, suggested something had gone wrong!

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