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Cary Courts Disaster
Snapshot Gif: Previously.TV Character Study Judge NOT Name: Richard Cuesta. Age: Early 60s. Occupation: Judge. Goal: To ditch Cary's dog of a case, over which he's presiding, as quickly as possible;...
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The Brady Violation Bunch
Character Study Not Just A Bill Name: Bill Kroft. Age: Late 30s. Occupation: Prison consultant. Goal: To help Cary prepare for the ordeal he's about to face by giving him real-life tips on how to...
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Kick In The Rebuttal
Awkward Even Mentioning This Awkwardness Is Awkward? Situation: The headlines this episode was ripped from are, in a word, Ferguson. What makes it awkward? The episode was written between the protests...
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Weird Client Is Still Weird
Alert! Executive Producer: Richard Lupo Alert Type: Ripped From The Headlines Alert. Issue: A scripted procedural TV series, Call It Murder, has produced an episode pretty obviously based on the...
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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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We're Gonna Need A Bigger Vote
Fashion Show Get The Look: Elegant Deer Hunter So apparently when Kurt invited Diane to go deer hunting in Wyoming with a shitload of Republicans and she agreed, she not only wasn't kidding, she...
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Alicia's Victory Party Is Definitely Over
Fight! Fight! Fight! Castro vs. Alicia The glow of Alicia's walking into Florrick Agos Lockhart to the cheers of literally everyone in the suite and then into her own office, which is crammed with...
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Alicia's Newsmagazine Puff Piece Leaves Her In A Huff
Awkward Tap To Ruin A Life Situation: Alicia's being interviewed by TV journalist Petra Moritz, for a puff piece for Petra's newsmagazine. What makes it awkward? Petra's in the process of editing it...
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Chicago's Dirty Politics Shocks Alicia...Again? Somehow?
Character Study Chipping Away At Alicia's Victory Name: Ken Boxer Jr. Age: Early 40s. Occupation: Head of the Board Of Elections. Goal: To ensure that the State's Attorney race results are legitimate...
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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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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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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 Starts Over, Again
Hell Yeah! Screens: CBS Smash Some Plates For This Greek Chorus After a montage of a bunch of perps getting busted on what seem like low-level offenses, we join...all of them in bond court, where a...
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Lunch And A Show Plays The (Good Wife) Feud
The Good Wife returned last night with another reset (and the worst wig yet); Tara reports on that and the Martindale agenda, plus Adam took a break from Particling Once Upon A Time to talk about...
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The Good Wife Investigates New Investigators
Alert! CBS I Don't Know Much About Art, But I Know What I Hate Alert Type: Art Critic Alert. Issue: Alicia's rocking bond court way more efficiently than she was last time when Lucca hands off one of...
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The Good Wife Cooks Up Another Opportunity For Campaign Managers To Spar...
Dialogue Love your coasters. Big fan of Lincoln. It's George Bernard Shaw. Big anti-Semite. Awkward CBS Age Against The Machine Situation: After the events of the last episode, Howard's decided that...
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The Good Wife's Euthanasia Case Gives Louis And Diane A New Reason To Hate...
Character Study Michael Parmelee / CBS Eyebrowing A Test Case Name: Ethan Carver. Age: Late 50s. Occupation: General counsel to Reese Dippold. (Remember him?) Goal: Okay, so a lawyer named Wendall...
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The Good Wife Gets Schooled -- For-Profit-Schooled, That Is
Character Study CBS A Loan Again, Naturally Name: Maggie Rossum. Age: Late 20s. Occupation: None, apparently, which is the problem. Goal: To get someone with some authority to intervene between...
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Eli's Evil Plan Risks Entirely Predictable Collateral Damage On The Good Wife
Character Study CBS Honesty Is...Definitely A Policy Name: Kristen Balko. Age: Early 30s. Occupation: VP of Information Security at Running Milk (WHAT THE HELL KIND OF NAME IS THAT?!). Goal: So what...
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The Good Wife Finds Herself In A DILF Sandwich
Alert! CBS Driven To Destruction Alert Type: Bleeding-Edge Tech Alert. Issue: A woman named Wendy Searle was paralyzed in a car accident and is suing both the driver -- Tim Brewster -- and Charles...
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The Good Wife Exercises Its Right To Choose...To Defend Someone Who Filmed A...
Hell Yeah! CBS Wooooo, A Content Warning! Maybe we're going to see someone's butt!!! Hell No! CBS Ew, This Content Warning So much for butts: turns out this episode earned its content warning by...
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Big Data, Big Discovery
Meeting Time Math Doesn't Discriminate Against People; People Discriminate Against People Who called the meeting? It happened through a series of steps, but Monica set things in motion by bringing a...
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Eli Messes With The Good Wife's Love Life One Time Too Many
Alert! CBS These Biffs Really Are Revolting Alert Type: Walkout Alert. Issue: Cary's in the middle of calling Brian the associate for pulling an all-nighter to work on a filing for Reese Dippold --...
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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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Rowby Canton Returns To The Good Wife To Get The Old Band Back Together
Character Study CBS St. Alicia Hasn't Won Over Absolutely Everyone Name: Crystal Dosek. Age: Late 40s. Occupation: Occupant of 603, the apartment three floors below Alicia's. Goal: To get Alicia to...
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The Good Wife Makes A Defensive Defendant
Snapshot CBS Character Study CBS The System Is Riggsed Name: Clayton Riggs. Age: Mid 30s. Occupation: Currently: jail inmate. Goal: He's got a bunch! To get a lawyer to stay on his disorderly conduct...
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The Good Wife Tries To Settle Back Into Firm Life, But Will Her Attempt Be...
Alert! CBS Curses! Foiled Again For The Very First Time Alert Type: ChumHum Alert. Issue: Lucca and Alicia have barely settled in for their first day as colleagues at Lockhart, Agos & Lee when...
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Should You Put Down Your Magazine And Watch The New Yorker Presents?
What Is This Thing? If you love The New Yorker but are tired of reading words, then this is the series for you! Each episode essentially brings an issue of the magazine to life, mixing investigative...
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The Good Wife Drones About Drones In A Case Lazily Ripped From The Headlines
Previously Nothing, according to the show. We open cold with Alicia being driven by two men in military uniform to... Meeting Time At Least Aaron Sorkin Gives You Zippy Dialogue While Beating You Over...
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Will High Risks Pay Off With Huge Rewards On The Good Wife?
Plot Lightning Round CBS Alicia and Jason are fooling around like whoa, you guys. LIKE WHOA. We open on them clearly post-coital, watching Roar on TV. Alicia can't believe the insanity she's watching,...
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The Good Wife's Got All Hands On Deck
Family Matters The Most Innocent Bystander Who's causing a family crisis? Gun violence. How? Motel owner Harry Dargis once had a high-school aged daughter who was planning on attending Stanford and...
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At Long Last, The Good Wife Starts To Make Some Moves
Meeting Time Go Greek Who called the meeting? Middle-aged libido. What's it about? Since Jason is an avowed believer in Greek Orthodoxy, Alicia wants to know if Jason believes in God, if Jason...
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The Good Wife Gives Alicia A New Opportunity To Earn That Nickname
Alert! CBS Take Off! From The Great White North Alert Type: Political Football Alert. Issue: Our old friend Jeff Dellinger, the NSA whistleblower, has suspended lamming it to try to return to the U.S....
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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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The Good Wife Dusts Off Her Old Routine For Peter's Trial
Plot Lightning Round CBS Just in time for no one left to care about it: the time has come for Peter's trial! We see that Diane has taken over from Mike as Peter's lead counsel as Connor Fox gives his...
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The Good Wife Deals, Heals, And Reels In Her Season Finale
Plot Lightning Round CBS Alicia having been alerted at the end of the last episode that the jury's back with a verdict, she, Eli, and Peter are in the back seat of a car, each on his or her phone...
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After A Midsummer's Nightmare And Still Star-Crossed, Which Amped-Up...
You know whose plays have always felt unfinished? Shakespeare's. He gets most of the way there, but his scripts all tend to need one more pass in a writers' room before they're perfect. Thankfully,...
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Watch Jesse Tyler Ferguson And Alan Cumming Help Out With The Late Late Show...
Some things just shouldn't be put in musical form. Like, Games of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and Stranger Things. While they're all critically acclaimed shows, they'd be terrible if they included...
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