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The Good Wife 5.10
This is such a great season. I love it to bits.
I can never remember the name of John Noble's character, though, and thus tend to think of him as Lawyerverse Walter Bishop. :) Anyway, just like his appearance last season, during which he died, retconned him into having been a long term client of Alicia's, the s how now brings him back via flashback and shows further consequences of his death as an opportunity for another Will versus Alicia confrontation. Wherein we get a look into Will's head, and the difference between his imaginary version of Alicia, as he prepares to cross examine her, and what real Alicia later says is striking. Imaginary Alicia is repentant, tearful and tells him she loved him. (Real Alicia never said those words even when their affair was at its height.) Whereupon he tells her he doesn't like it when she's weak. And of course Imaginary Will in his head is the dominant, strong one during this scenario, who can make Alicia admit she exploited him but remains in control. Meanwhile, when the crossexamination plays out in real life, Alicia doesn't give a single of the answers Will had expected her to, certainly isn't repentant or teary-eyed, and cooly turns the tables around on him, winning the case. (Err, that is, until it's discovered that there are more last wills out there, invalidating them all, which means neither Florick & Agos nor L & G win.) It's Will who remains flustered and outmanouevred, totally bereft of his goal to humiliate Alica on the stand as payback.
With my solid dislike of Will, I was mostly amused but also, surprisingly, occasionally sorry for him by all of this. I mean, he always felt more for Alicia than she did for him (though, pace Will/Alicia shippers, she probably feels more than she wants to admit), but as long as he could envision an infinite future with her at Lockhart & Gardner, where at the very least he was the most important man in her life professionally if not emotionally, he could deal with that. No longer. Hell hath no fury like a man scorned.
Meanwhile, I'm more convinced than ever that Damian is the writer's attempt number 3 to give Kalinda a morally ambiguous male sparring partner, which I'm extremely sceptical about after the precedents, but so far, he at least has more personality than Blake (who was a one dimensional baddie) and isn't revolting the way Nick was, so we'll see where it goes. Also, presumably to underscore Kalinda's still bisexual, she has a one night stand with (female) Det. Villette, who gives me the impression she might come back, to, so we'll see where this goes as well. (Hopefully to a better place than Kalinda/FBI Agent?)
I have the suspicion the office party subplot was mostly there because this was the hundreth episode and it provided an excuse to use some more recurring guest stars like Alicia's mother Veronica or Lamont Bishop (for a cameo), but it did make me smile (I'm easy like that). Does anyone know whether or not the show will get another season? Because if this is the last tone, it certainly will go out with blazing colours!
I can never remember the name of John Noble's character, though, and thus tend to think of him as Lawyerverse Walter Bishop. :) Anyway, just like his appearance last season, during which he died, retconned him into having been a long term client of Alicia's, the s how now brings him back via flashback and shows further consequences of his death as an opportunity for another Will versus Alicia confrontation. Wherein we get a look into Will's head, and the difference between his imaginary version of Alicia, as he prepares to cross examine her, and what real Alicia later says is striking. Imaginary Alicia is repentant, tearful and tells him she loved him. (Real Alicia never said those words even when their affair was at its height.) Whereupon he tells her he doesn't like it when she's weak. And of course Imaginary Will in his head is the dominant, strong one during this scenario, who can make Alicia admit she exploited him but remains in control. Meanwhile, when the crossexamination plays out in real life, Alicia doesn't give a single of the answers Will had expected her to, certainly isn't repentant or teary-eyed, and cooly turns the tables around on him, winning the case. (Err, that is, until it's discovered that there are more last wills out there, invalidating them all, which means neither Florick & Agos nor L & G win.) It's Will who remains flustered and outmanouevred, totally bereft of his goal to humiliate Alica on the stand as payback.
With my solid dislike of Will, I was mostly amused but also, surprisingly, occasionally sorry for him by all of this. I mean, he always felt more for Alicia than she did for him (though, pace Will/Alicia shippers, she probably feels more than she wants to admit), but as long as he could envision an infinite future with her at Lockhart & Gardner, where at the very least he was the most important man in her life professionally if not emotionally, he could deal with that. No longer. Hell hath no fury like a man scorned.
Meanwhile, I'm more convinced than ever that Damian is the writer's attempt number 3 to give Kalinda a morally ambiguous male sparring partner, which I'm extremely sceptical about after the precedents, but so far, he at least has more personality than Blake (who was a one dimensional baddie) and isn't revolting the way Nick was, so we'll see where it goes. Also, presumably to underscore Kalinda's still bisexual, she has a one night stand with (female) Det. Villette, who gives me the impression she might come back, to, so we'll see where this goes as well. (Hopefully to a better place than Kalinda/FBI Agent?)
I have the suspicion the office party subplot was mostly there because this was the hundreth episode and it provided an excuse to use some more recurring guest stars like Alicia's mother Veronica or Lamont Bishop (for a cameo), but it did make me smile (I'm easy like that). Does anyone know whether or not the show will get another season? Because if this is the last tone, it certainly will go out with blazing colours!
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Will is just - he has no humility, no regret. He's shrivelled up and has no idea how shrivelled up he is.
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scarletred dress, symbolism obvious. The episode doesn't draw attention to it, but it's neatly done.no subject
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Speaking of played-out conflicts, the battle of the mothers/in-law is such a cliché; it was a functional way to bring in Veronica, though.
The rest of the episode was just captivating, though -- well done. I predictably loved the Det. Vilette plot. Please, Kings, can Kalinda have, for once, a nice and normal romantic/sexual relationship, whether long-term or just a fling?