The Good Wife – That’s what I’m talking about!

Just a week removed from what I deemed a sub-par episode, The Good Wife proved once again why it keeps on getting nominated for all those fancy awards. And all it took was a little time in court — I told you so!

And yet it was so much more than that. The case was great for sure, but I also enjoyed some of the political intrigue as well. Go figure, right?

After his legal show The Deep End went off, well, the deep end, Norbert Leo Butz popped up as a jury guru, an expert in micro-expressions. I may have been alone in this, but I made quick note of the fact that he’s right only 80% of the time.

I enjoyed the entire Will/ Judge Weldon (David Oyelowo) intrigue, from Will’s phone call with Cary all the way to the judge blowing up at Alicia. I loved the strategy of asking him to recuse himself in open court, but as the jury member said at the end of the trial, the only thing that matters is the defendant’s guilt. Who cares if the judge is biased? It makes for great fun in novels, but it means little in judging someone’s guilt or innocence. Still, a twenty minute jury deliberation? Crazy.

I was wildly enthusiastic about Michael Ealy joining the show this season, but I’m terribly disappointed in the direction the writers have moved Derrick Bond. I didn’t believe that Bond had some ulterior motive up his sleeve back when Diane started getting all up-in-arms, but as soon as he told Will to placate Diane for two months before they muscled her out my total outlook on him changed drastically. By the way, I understand Diane’s wish to share client lists, but her intimation that two named partners should be involved with all said clients is such a ridiculous waste of resources. Will should have changed gears right there.

Anyway, now that Will and Diane have a secret pact against Bond I’ve lost interest in the partnership thing again. And while I thought it could be interesting for Cary to join Diane at her new firm, it’s childish of him to only come back to Lockhart, Gardner if he can sit on high atop Alicia. Again, as soon as he said that Diane should have stopped pursuing him as an employee.

The Blake and Kalinda thing has also ended up in a much darker place than it was first heading. In the beginning it was good, clean competition, but with the whole supervisor thing, and Blake investigating firm members, not to mention his being set up as a bad guy weeks ago … even so, Kalinda was acting like a complete baby every time she said “let me ask my supervisor about that.”

For once I was really into Peter’s campaign, and for multiple reasons. First of all, I enjoyed Eli and Alicia’s uncomfortable conversation about Peter’s old campaign guy Adam Boris (Matt Letscher) … for once their chemistry was on. And then I liked Eli and his friction with Adam; Jackie’s a stupid character, and her insistence on sticking her nose in her son’s campaign has always bothered me. Can you be proud of someone (Peter) for doing something that they should have done about thirty years ago? But I liked how it pitted Eli against Adam, and how Eli laid down the law for Peter.

And just to throw everyone for a loop — Will and Alicia’s conversation, where they didn’t know what the other one was talking about? Funny stuff.

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Jan 19, 2011 @ 14:00 EST5EDT