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tellitslant) wrote2011-05-05 11:20 pm
tellitslant) wrote2011-05-05 11:20 pm
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[omg wtf the good wife]
I just didn't have the time/brain to watch The Good Wife yesterday, and I almost didn't have brain today either, but I watched it anyway. And I still might not have brain, but I have to say stuff about it anyway, because WOW.
I have to say, there were bits of this that were intensely difficult to watch, in a way that I can only give the show credit for - but as the child of a relatively acrimonious divorce, whose mother could easily be Julianna Marguiles' sister? A little less realism would be nice.
Anyways.
I kind of don't know where to start, even. If Alicia broke our hearts this week, I think Kalinda is going to up the game next week, but she is going to have one hell of an act to follow. The whole nearly-wordless introductory sequence was just mindblowing.
I love how twisted these characters are. Loved Patti playing both sides towards the middle. Love, too, that we don't know what's going on with Cary - did he go to Peter's office in good faith? If Peter ends up using him, is that going to be with or without Cary's full understanding? Who knows! I am looking forward to finding out.
I really do love everyone on this show (except Grace, who continues to endear herself to me less and less). Jackie, who is as fierce a mother as Alicia in her own way. Peter, who even when he is a total dick has moments like telling Alicia not to blame Kalinda. Will, who recognizes and acknowledges when he's outgunned. Cary, who will try anything to get where he think he ought to be. Eli, who is finally showing more of the person than the politician.
The long game that the writers are playing is so impressive. None of this was unplanned. All of it reaches right back to that very first episode - the setup with Cary, the re-election, Kalinda checking out Alicia. All of it coming to a head two years later. That is seriously impressive. I think they got away with it because they disguised the show as a procedural and no one really expected this much plot to be part of it. And then, WHAM, character development! Because all of those forty-odd episodes up to now were leading up to those moments of Alicia breaking, and refusing to break, and being better and worse for it.
How has this not yet been renewed? More to the point, how is it the lowest rated scripted show on CBS Sunday-Thursday? This is why we can't have nice things! Because we break them!
I have to say, there were bits of this that were intensely difficult to watch, in a way that I can only give the show credit for - but as the child of a relatively acrimonious divorce, whose mother could easily be Julianna Marguiles' sister? A little less realism would be nice.
Anyways.
I kind of don't know where to start, even. If Alicia broke our hearts this week, I think Kalinda is going to up the game next week, but she is going to have one hell of an act to follow. The whole nearly-wordless introductory sequence was just mindblowing.
I love how twisted these characters are. Loved Patti playing both sides towards the middle. Love, too, that we don't know what's going on with Cary - did he go to Peter's office in good faith? If Peter ends up using him, is that going to be with or without Cary's full understanding? Who knows! I am looking forward to finding out.
I really do love everyone on this show (except Grace, who continues to endear herself to me less and less). Jackie, who is as fierce a mother as Alicia in her own way. Peter, who even when he is a total dick has moments like telling Alicia not to blame Kalinda. Will, who recognizes and acknowledges when he's outgunned. Cary, who will try anything to get where he think he ought to be. Eli, who is finally showing more of the person than the politician.
The long game that the writers are playing is so impressive. None of this was unplanned. All of it reaches right back to that very first episode - the setup with Cary, the re-election, Kalinda checking out Alicia. All of it coming to a head two years later. That is seriously impressive. I think they got away with it because they disguised the show as a procedural and no one really expected this much plot to be part of it. And then, WHAM, character development! Because all of those forty-odd episodes up to now were leading up to those moments of Alicia breaking, and refusing to break, and being better and worse for it.
How has this not yet been renewed? More to the point, how is it the lowest rated scripted show on CBS Sunday-Thursday? This is why we can't have nice things! Because we break them!