The Good Wife 3.06
Oct. 31st, 2011 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakWhich feels like an episode from State Attorney's Office Chicago, guest staring the Lockhart & Gardner folks. Which I don't mean as a criticsm; I like reversed point of view now and then.
Back in s2, we had a few cases where the people Alicia & friends were defending were not the good guys, and you could see the prosecution actually being in the right. This was another case in point, only a bit more subtle since instead of, say, a drug lord or Sweeney the Lector wannabe Alicia's client of the week does the wide eyed harrassed innocent thing. Which was part of the point: as Alicia tells Caitlin near the end. It's also telling that while we see a bit of Kalinda's investigation, the putting-clues-together-heureka! moment is given to Cary instead of her. (Who isn't a spotless white hat in this episode, either; he was pressuring his witness and practically telling him what to say. But as Alicia also pointed out to Caitlin, that doesn't mean the result couldn't be the truth.) We're following Cary throughout the episode as the red thread, which is why I figured that on this occasion his guess might turn out to be right and L&G's wrong. I do feel sorry Dana is leaving, because his scenes with her were and are here, too, very enjoyable, and kudos to Cary for making the boyfriend joke without blinking.
The Eli plot of the week first bewildered me because his ex was far too young to be the mother of his daughter, but of course nothing says he couldn't have been married several times. It does underline his penchant for young women, though. Also the lack of realism that comes with it because he had to know that investigating his ex wife even at her request would not lead to anything constructive. And his ex wife should have known better, too, than to expect an investigator paid by her ex husband not to report to him first and foremost. In fact, the whole thing felt a bit predictable and so random I wondered what the point was; I fleetingly thought it might be leading to a Kalinda character scene between well, the cheating business, and I don't mean the Peter one night stand as much as the longer affair with Sophia, but no. Then I thought it might be in preparation for Eli's discovery of said one night stand as what triggered Alicia's current separation and/or of Alicia/Will, which it still might be, but not (yet?) in this episode.
The Will and Zach scene of extreme awkwardness after Zach and Grace already played inquisition on their mother's social life amused cold hearted me not a little, and I would feel satisfied Alicia doesn't want to present Will to the children (because if she was planning on a future with Will beyond work and sex, she would), were it not for my suspicion this means this plot will be dragged out.
Alicia and Caitlin: and here's where Alicia's experience with Grace comes in useful, though Caitlin is an adult. Those mentor scenes were enjoyable to see, and showcased both Alicia has become a bit jaded by L&G firm life and that she's open minded and appreciating the effort Caitlin makes instead of holding her uncle's actions against her. However, the two Will and Caitlin scenes make me wonder whether now that Celeste is gone, we're moving yet on another alternate love interest in order to create more triangles, and I hope I'm wrong.
Otoh I'm all for more newly promoted Deputy Attorney Cary. The writer definitely made the right decision to keep him with the state attorney's office instead of letting him return to L&G.
Back in s2, we had a few cases where the people Alicia & friends were defending were not the good guys, and you could see the prosecution actually being in the right. This was another case in point, only a bit more subtle since instead of, say, a drug lord or Sweeney the Lector wannabe Alicia's client of the week does the wide eyed harrassed innocent thing. Which was part of the point: as Alicia tells Caitlin near the end. It's also telling that while we see a bit of Kalinda's investigation, the putting-clues-together-heureka! moment is given to Cary instead of her. (Who isn't a spotless white hat in this episode, either; he was pressuring his witness and practically telling him what to say. But as Alicia also pointed out to Caitlin, that doesn't mean the result couldn't be the truth.) We're following Cary throughout the episode as the red thread, which is why I figured that on this occasion his guess might turn out to be right and L&G's wrong. I do feel sorry Dana is leaving, because his scenes with her were and are here, too, very enjoyable, and kudos to Cary for making the boyfriend joke without blinking.
The Eli plot of the week first bewildered me because his ex was far too young to be the mother of his daughter, but of course nothing says he couldn't have been married several times. It does underline his penchant for young women, though. Also the lack of realism that comes with it because he had to know that investigating his ex wife even at her request would not lead to anything constructive. And his ex wife should have known better, too, than to expect an investigator paid by her ex husband not to report to him first and foremost. In fact, the whole thing felt a bit predictable and so random I wondered what the point was; I fleetingly thought it might be leading to a Kalinda character scene between well, the cheating business, and I don't mean the Peter one night stand as much as the longer affair with Sophia, but no. Then I thought it might be in preparation for Eli's discovery of said one night stand as what triggered Alicia's current separation and/or of Alicia/Will, which it still might be, but not (yet?) in this episode.
The Will and Zach scene of extreme awkwardness after Zach and Grace already played inquisition on their mother's social life amused cold hearted me not a little, and I would feel satisfied Alicia doesn't want to present Will to the children (because if she was planning on a future with Will beyond work and sex, she would), were it not for my suspicion this means this plot will be dragged out.
Alicia and Caitlin: and here's where Alicia's experience with Grace comes in useful, though Caitlin is an adult. Those mentor scenes were enjoyable to see, and showcased both Alicia has become a bit jaded by L&G firm life and that she's open minded and appreciating the effort Caitlin makes instead of holding her uncle's actions against her. However, the two Will and Caitlin scenes make me wonder whether now that Celeste is gone, we're moving yet on another alternate love interest in order to create more triangles, and I hope I'm wrong.
Otoh I'm all for more newly promoted Deputy Attorney Cary. The writer definitely made the right decision to keep him with the state attorney's office instead of letting him return to L&G.
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Date: 2011-10-31 04:30 pm (UTC)Parker Posey is just under four years younger than Alan Cumming.
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Date: 2011-10-31 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 04:46 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Posey -- born November 968
You didn't recognise her from Superman Returns? ;-) (Though it's disappointing she *didn't* play Lois Lane in that.)
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Date: 2011-10-31 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-10-31 05:06 pm (UTC)I had an easier time recognising her since I've known her name since I saw Clockwatchers in theatres, and have watched her in other stuff since (Scream 3, Personal Velocity, the pilot for The Return of Jezebel James wherein she played Lauren Ambrose's sister, etc.)
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Date: 2011-11-01 02:33 am (UTC)I thought it was a neat piece of characterisation. Eli is often presented as logical and manipulative, and here on the surface he's making purely sensible and logical choices to have his wife investigated, but when it comes to reality with an affair during what he thought were good years, he's hurt and jealous and falliable. It's the timing not the person he cares about, and it was good to see that Eli isn't a robot.
Mostly I just drew hearts around the episode, especially Cary in his tiny tiny cubicle - with a window view!
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Date: 2011-11-01 02:56 am (UTC)http://bisocialnetwork.com/alan-cumming-joins-the-i-am-visible-campaign/
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Date: 2011-11-01 04:06 am (UTC)Dear Mr Cummings,
Please continue being awesome.
XOXO
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