The Good Wife Lets Alicia Drop Her Armour
Last month, when The Good Wife creators Michelle and Robert King wrote an open letter to the show's fans explaining why they made the decision to kill off Will Gardner rather than just write him out in...
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Peter And Alicia's Marriage Of Convenience Is Not So Convenient For The Third...
Now that it seems clear that the state's attorney's race is going to be an actual race, and that Finn's candidacy is more than a tactic or a stunt or a protest, it's time to see precisely how big a...
View ArticleAlicia's Plate Fills Up Just In Time For Her Nest To Empty
We all understand, of course, that Alicia Florrick has a pretty high-powered job that takes up a huge amount of her time. Still, building a season finale episode, in part, around the plot thread that...
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Alicia Learns, Apparently For The Very First Time, That Politics Is A Dirty...
Plot Lightning Round "We're Still Just Talking But HAVE ALL THE CRUDITÉS!!!" Alicia makes like a hostess for once, putting out a spread that even Martha Stewart would say is "sure, fine, acceptable"!...
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The Good Wife Is Sniffing Glue
Plot Lightning Round Marissa unpacks a shitload of OTC cold medicines for Alicia, who protests that she doesn't have a cold -- she's just got laryngitis because she's been giving too many speeches...
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Alicia Florrick In: The Invention Of Lying
Phone Call Should Auld Acquittals Be Forgot Alicia's just spent what is apparently her first full day of unemployment trying to fill the hours -- talking to the ghostwriter who's apparently going to...
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Will Kalinda Ever Wrap Up The Longest Goodbye?
Phone Call This Plan Has Already Gone To Pot Alicia's just finished telling Jacob Rickter, her first client in her private practice, that he might want to consider going a little more cautiously into...
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Pained Expressions And Pencil Skirts
Unlike many Marathon Diarists, I have actually watched this show before. Well, not all of it. I watched the first part of the first season. I remember the pre-show hype and thought, "Well, I'm one of...
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Reunited And It Feels So Awkward
The middle third of the first season of The Good Wife proceeded as before: I was interested, but not totally drawn into the episodes, and I couldn't figure out why so many people whose opinion on...
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Investment
In the final stretch of episodes in the first season of The Good Wife, the show is finally firing on all cylinders. It took a while for the writers to figure out these characters, and how to balance...
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Learning To Love Willicia
So when we left Alicia in the first-season finale, she had to make a choice between continuing to be the good wife of the show's title and supporting Peter publicly as he announced his candidacy for...
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It Takes Two
There are many things that can keep a viewer involved in a television show. An interesting concept drew me into The Walking Dead. Knockout visuals and enthralling acting kept me watching the first...
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Pigeons And Chickens
In the final stretch of the second season of The Good Wife, the pigeons introduced in the first season finally come home to roost. Or is it chickens? Anyway, some type of bird comes home to roost, is...
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Guest Star Turnaround
Hey, hey, hey! It's Season 3! And now that the sexiness is heating up, what with Alicia and Will carrying on a secret relationship and all, the cases are duller than Dullsville. Seriously, my notes...
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Bye Willicia. Bye!
In the middle section of Season 3, in contrast to the episodes covered in my last Marathon Diary, the cases are interesting, but the serialized plotlines are...kind of dull? It's all about how Wendy...
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On The Good Wife, Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves, And Sometimes Other...
The last episodes in Season 3 do a lot to showcase the women of Lockhart Gardner in both good ways and bad. Let's start with Anna Camp in the role of Caitlin. I was just getting excited about Caitlin,...
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The Good Wife Follows The Money People
As the fourth season begins, Nathan Lane is brought in as a trustee to oversee the financial decisions at Lockhart/Gardner, and I guess I'm supposed to root for Will and Diane to get out from under...
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This Is A Campaign Whiz Kid? Age Ain't Nothing But A Number On The Good Wife.
There's a scene in the last episode I watched between Peter and Diane that got me thinking: they seem like a more age-appropriate couple than Peter and Alicia. How old are these actors, exactly? Well,...
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The Good Wife Doesn't Know How Normal People Act
As Lockhart/Gardner somehow continues to expand (I've given up trying to understand the financial ups and downs of this firm anymore), they also hire a new investigator, Robyn. And I cannot get a bead...
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The Good Wife Marathon Diarist Sees Alicia And Cary Fly Free
The first section of Season 5 is, of course, all about paying off that cliffhanger with the subterfuge and shenanigans involved in Alicia and Carey leaving to form their own law firm. But that's not...
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The Good Wife Mourns A Death In The Family
The middle of Season 5 is all about Alicia and Cary's struggle to establish their own law firm while competing with Will and Diane for clients. Ha, just kidding. The dominating plot of these episodes...
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The Good Wife Goes Through The Stages Of Grief
The end of the fifth season, on its surface, is about everyone's next move. With Will dead, will Alicia recommit to her marriage? Or will she realize life is too short to fake being happy and break...
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The Good Wife Goes Behind Bars
It's Season 6! As I close in on being caught up with the rest of the world, the two major story arcs are that Alicia finally decides to run for State's Attorney; and Cary gets arrested on charges that...
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The Good Wife Offers More Questions Than Answers
As someone who, out of high school, intended to become a political speechwriter and possibly campaign manager, I'm generally interested in storylines dealing with campaigns. I wish I were more...
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The Good Wife Pretends Iowa Doesn't Make Her Want To Barf
Fight! Fight! Fight! CBS Alicia vs. Eli After a brief reiteration of Eli's confession from before the break (...um, happy holidays, Alicia!), Eli unwisely tries to get himself on the other side of...
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The Good Wife Does Her Last Duty For Her Crappy Mother-In-Law
Awkward CBS I Gave Him My Heart, And He Gave Me A Gag Gift Situation: As you will recall from the very end of the last episode, Alicia's just admitted to Jason that what she wants most in her life is...
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