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Cleita

(75,480 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2014, 02:48 PM Sep 2014

The Good Wife; any fans here?

Just when I thought they were going to start getting stale, they delivered again. It's always been a great show that informed on how law firms operate and an insight into Chicago politics, but this season the first show of the season focused on the arrest of Carey, who was framed for drugs.

It walks him through his arrest and processing through his incarceration in jail, bail setting, and generally how all his rights are pretty much ignored and how he is dehumanized in the process. Even though Alicia and her husband are Democrats, they are pretty much third way and are surrounded by conservatives and conservative values, or lack of values.

I really appreciate how the writers get their message through as to how corrupt our system has become. Also it has romance and good story lines as well as memorable characters. That Kalinda is one bad ass with a good heart. Anyone else love this show?

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The Good Wife; any fans here? (Original Post) Cleita Sep 2014 OP
Never miss it, but... TreasonousBastard Sep 2014 #1
Long time fan Sienna86 Sep 2014 #2
I discovered it a bit late, but courtesy of the library and Netflix I caught up. Still Blue in PDX Sep 2014 #3
My wife and I never miss the show. JayhawkSD Oct 2014 #4
You are not alone. murielm99 Oct 2014 #5
You betcha...Best thing on network Television, IMO. whathehell Oct 2014 #6
you heard she's, ooooops, a spoiler alert. a kennedy Oct 2014 #8
Nope, I didn't.. whathehell Oct 2014 #9
Yah, I know that was odd to me also....... a kennedy Oct 2014 #10
What did they mean about "taking care" of her husband? whathehell Oct 2014 #11
I don't know either..... a kennedy Oct 2014 #13
OMG! GMOs and Christian arbitration? Cleita Oct 2014 #7
The most recent episode had a plot line Jenoch Oct 2014 #12

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. Never miss it, but...
Tue Sep 23, 2014, 03:59 PM
Sep 2014

I don't see it in political terms. Just one of the better lawyer shows that rises above the others.

What I do see is good writing-- a pile of plot before the opening credits gets your attention.

And yes, Kalinda is a great character.

Still Blue in PDX

(1,999 posts)
3. I discovered it a bit late, but courtesy of the library and Netflix I caught up.
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 04:09 PM
Sep 2014

It's on a very short list of shows that I never miss.

 

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)
4. My wife and I never miss the show.
Thu Oct 2, 2014, 11:10 AM
Oct 2014

The addition of Taye Diggs is a plus, although I gather he is not permanent.

My guilty secret is that I actually rather like their client Bishop. I'll bet I'm not alone.

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
6. You betcha...Best thing on network Television, IMO.
Thu Oct 2, 2014, 06:40 PM
Oct 2014

Love Kalinda, too, although I think they sensationalize her bi-sexuality too much.

She's plenty interesting without that.

a kennedy

(29,673 posts)
8. you heard she's, ooooops, a spoiler alert.
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 08:25 AM
Oct 2014

leaving the show didn't you??

First we lost Will. Then we lost Lockhart/Gardner. And now, we just found out that season 6 of The Good Wife will be Kalinda’s last. It’s a shocking loss for longtime fans of the show—yet its impact isn’t as bad as it could have been. Or rather, it isn’t what it would have been just a few seasons ago.

When The Good Wife premiered, Archie Panjabi’s Kalinda was one of the show’s most interesting characters, if not the most interesting. She chose to wear tight leather jackets and knee-high boots to work at the city’s most prestigious law firm, and they let her. Why? Because as an investigator, she did whatever it took to discover the truth, and quite frankly, because no one could make Kalinda do anything.

Kalinda didn’t mind blurring the line between right and wrong, particularly because it was evident that she was hiding a few (possibly literal) skeletons in her closet. She stood up for herself, and she stood up for her friends. Plus, she was by far the best professional on the show. Without Kalinda, Will and Diane would’ve lost nearly every case they took on. She was morally questionable, unpredictable, yet fiercely loyal at the same time. Combined, those qualities made her unlike anyone else on television, much less any other female character on television.

But somewhere around season 4, when the show attempted to answer a few questions about her past, the intrigue of Kalinda started to decline. With the arrival of Kalinda’s husband Nick and the exploration of that twisted relationship, Kalinda slipped further away from being the strong, no-bullsh– woman she once was—even if her wardrobe never changed. And when she “took care” of her husband by the end of the year, the Kalinda we’d come to know and love had become a thing of the past.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/15/good-wife-kalinda-leaving/

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
9. Nope, I didn't..
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 08:36 AM
Oct 2014

and I don't agree that Kahlinda "lost" anything ..I have no idea of what is meant by her

supposedly "taken care" of her husband.

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
11. What did they mean about "taking care" of her husband?
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 11:20 AM
Oct 2014

They're not implying she killed him, or anything, are they?..I don't know what
happened to him, he seemed to just get written out of the show.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
7. OMG! GMOs and Christian arbitration?
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 12:29 AM
Oct 2014

I didn't know the evangelicals are now in our court system.

Don't miss this episode.

 

Jenoch

(7,720 posts)
12. The most recent episode had a plot line
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 04:28 PM
Oct 2014

in which Florick-Agos-Lockhart had their computer network held hostage for $50,000 ransom. Interestingly enough I just got an e-mail about a small town radio station had their computers held hostage for $500 in bitcoin. They didn't pay and managed to clean out their computer system.

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