The Good Wife 3.21
Apr. 25th, 2012 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIn which we learn that Cary would take Keith Richards with him to the proverbial desert island. I can see the rationale here, Cary, but I have just one warning sentence for you: why is the rum gone?
I take it we were meant to believe that judge-in-the-penalty-box had had a gay relationship with his former assistant back in the day? Because it certainly came across that way to me. Also, I'm assuming he'll be a recurring character now, given the original case - the one he was presiding over at the beginning - was left dangling and he now owes Alicia & Co.
Speaking recurring characters: Bishop the drug dealer: as chilling as ever. (Also, because I've now marathoned through Breaking Bad, given that Alicia specifically names his product as meth I want a crossover.) While I feel for Kalinda, I can't help but thinking everyone at Lockhart & Gardner made their bed there, by working with him to begin with. Which leads me to a problem, to wit, that Lana Delaney (is that a comic book name or what?) the FBI agent is presented as basically abusing her powers to sexually harrass Kalinda, when she could have been written as far more interesting if the show bothered to present her goal to get Bishop as sincere (instead of presenting it as a tool to get at Kalinda).
Whereas elsewhere, the show has no problem showing people wanting different things as layered. I'm back to my late s1 speculation whether Alicia and Cary will end up as Diane and Will: The Next Generation. They do have that nice prickly rapport. And it's ic for Alicia to be pro-Cary (since court battles not withstanding, he vouched for her a few episodes back when David Lee very likely faked a document for her), as it is for Will to be anti-Cary (yes, Cary was only reluctantly involved in the investigation against him, but it did cost Will six months of his professional life, plus Cary was always Diane's boy and not his anyway). I was worried about him, I must admit, when Callie became the alternative candidate while Peter found out Cary intended to leave, but all got resolved and we got a practical demonstration Will actually has learned that Office Romances Are Not A Good Thing. Also, colour me amused about Peter's "when did we become a bickering couple?" to Eli. And it's interesting that Peter was hurt by Cary seeing employement elsewhere but evidently not in a vengeful feud mood, going by his phonecall to Cary at the end of the episode.
State of the Alicia and Kalinda: more togetherness, which is pleasing. Though, see above, I wish it didn't come with a sideline of Lana Delaney: Mean FBI Agent. (Kalinda could still be in trouble if Lana were written as someone sincerely out to get Bishop first and foremost.)
I take it we were meant to believe that judge-in-the-penalty-box had had a gay relationship with his former assistant back in the day? Because it certainly came across that way to me. Also, I'm assuming he'll be a recurring character now, given the original case - the one he was presiding over at the beginning - was left dangling and he now owes Alicia & Co.
Speaking recurring characters: Bishop the drug dealer: as chilling as ever. (Also, because I've now marathoned through Breaking Bad, given that Alicia specifically names his product as meth I want a crossover.) While I feel for Kalinda, I can't help but thinking everyone at Lockhart & Gardner made their bed there, by working with him to begin with. Which leads me to a problem, to wit, that Lana Delaney (is that a comic book name or what?) the FBI agent is presented as basically abusing her powers to sexually harrass Kalinda, when she could have been written as far more interesting if the show bothered to present her goal to get Bishop as sincere (instead of presenting it as a tool to get at Kalinda).
Whereas elsewhere, the show has no problem showing people wanting different things as layered. I'm back to my late s1 speculation whether Alicia and Cary will end up as Diane and Will: The Next Generation. They do have that nice prickly rapport. And it's ic for Alicia to be pro-Cary (since court battles not withstanding, he vouched for her a few episodes back when David Lee very likely faked a document for her), as it is for Will to be anti-Cary (yes, Cary was only reluctantly involved in the investigation against him, but it did cost Will six months of his professional life, plus Cary was always Diane's boy and not his anyway). I was worried about him, I must admit, when Callie became the alternative candidate while Peter found out Cary intended to leave, but all got resolved and we got a practical demonstration Will actually has learned that Office Romances Are Not A Good Thing. Also, colour me amused about Peter's "when did we become a bickering couple?" to Eli. And it's interesting that Peter was hurt by Cary seeing employement elsewhere but evidently not in a vengeful feud mood, going by his phonecall to Cary at the end of the episode.
State of the Alicia and Kalinda: more togetherness, which is pleasing. Though, see above, I wish it didn't come with a sideline of Lana Delaney: Mean FBI Agent. (Kalinda could still be in trouble if Lana were written as someone sincerely out to get Bishop first and foremost.)
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Date: 2012-04-25 10:01 am (UTC)Have you been watching Scott and Bailey, the UK series? I'm watching the ost recent episode now and it reminds me in the work focus and Bechdel success of The Good Wife.
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Date: 2012-04-25 10:28 am (UTC)Scott and Bailey: no, I haven't? What's it about?
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Date: 2012-04-25 10:41 am (UTC)The women are possibly - maybe - too competent in comparison to the male characters who include some real idiots, but they're still rounded and far more convincing than well, ten series of CSI.
I greatly enjoy it - the women are flawed, but clearly competent and intelligent and their friendship is a core part of their lives.
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Date: 2012-04-25 11:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-25 03:15 pm (UTC)