[all I watch anymore are shows with awesome women. I recommend it.]

[tellitslant]

OH MAN, THE GOOD WIFE.

But mainly, I DID NOT SEE THAT END TWIST COMING. THEY'RE AFTER PETER. HOLY CRAP. Only in Chicago, yeah? Well, not really, but. Damn. Just, damn.

I loved that we got this lead-in to that with Peter being totally ruthless, too - it's set up so that we want to appreciate what he's doing, because he is after all doing it for his children, but it is just so incredibly unsettling, and then to have that hammered home with the revelation of the corruption investigation was fantastic. It's great that we've been spending all this time thinking about Will's past and then he's suddenly being sort of the more moral one and we're getting this turn to Peter again.

I love that we ended on Alicia and Diane having a friendly/mentor-y drink. This was particularly awesome in that we'd seen Diane having drinks two eps ago with Eli, where she played the motherly/wise figure, and then last week with Will, where she was kind of one of the guys - and then getting this "old girls' club" moment felt particularly poignant, like a comment on all the roles you have to play in this business and how/whether you can ever step out of them.

Kalinda's face in her scene in Alicia's car was just incredible. I really kind of wanted to give her a hug. And, of course, Alicia going all hardcore on Cary to get Kalinda back was also amazing. I wouldn't usually use the term "submissive" about Kalinda Sharma, but there are some fascinating power dynamics going on there.

SHOW <3 <3 <3

Comments

[dafna]

Yes to pretty much everything you said. These writers are fucking amazing, man. The last time I was this consistently genuinely surprised by twists was the first season of Veronica Mars, I think. And it's totally earned, too.

[jae]

I actually didn't find myself appreciating what Peter was doing at all (for one thing, I'm not at all convinced the kids should go back to a la-di-da private school anyway), but the unsettling part was Alicia taking the lead in that. Peter was only being slimey because Alicia was asking him to. It's good to get some more of the darker side to Alicia's character, but damn, unsettling.

-J

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't usually use the term "submissive" about Kalinda Sharma, but there are some fascinating power dynamics going on there.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DISCUSS THEM, POSSIBLY IN STORY FORMAT. *__________*


(It's almost 24 hours later and I'm still stuck on "Kalinda, what are you doing?" "Anything you want." GOOD WIFE YOU GIVE ME FEELINGS.)

[joran.livejournal.com]

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THIS.

[mosca.livejournal.com]

The Alicia/Kalinda and Alicia/Diane scenes (punctuation intentional) were fascinating in parallel, too - Alicia worrying so much about not having friends, and both of these women proving her wrong, and Alicia still kind of missing the message. It paralleled well with losing Will, too: he can't be her friend now.

Amazing show is AMAZING.