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The Good Wife; Season 6
Topic Started: Sep 20 2014, 03:55 PM (2,817 Views)
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I thought Kalinda was dead the minute after she 'threatened' Bishop. I honestly don't know what I would have done if I was Cary. He's totally screwed now that he said he was guilty because he can't practice law I don't think. It is a felony still, right? Since he can't practice law I probably would have gone to Barcelona but I do agree with Tgir that Bishop will always have a hand around his neck. Bastard!!!

The daughter was an idiot for showing that letter to her teacher. She must have known it would get blown out of proportion. Oh well.

We do need to see a lot more Diane. I just love her to death.

I don't like the campaign stuff but I love Eli and the other guy. Funny.

Mike Colter (Bishop) would be great in the Marvel Netflix series.

Loved Frasier. :D

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Cary is/was totally screwed. No good options, but with the jury very probably going against him... four (or two) years probably... best. Yes, felony, so his career is over. Of course, this being a tv show, we may be suspicious that, you know, there will somehow be a magic fix. It'll be overturned. There will be a happy ending. But we can't ENTIRELY trust that, either... they don't always play by the rules.

I don't think Diane's been absent or minimized enough to say I 'miss' her, but it would be cool if we checked in on her and Kurt (Gary Cole) again soon.

I'm not getting enough Lee or Canning lately...

>> I love Eli and the other guy. Funny.

I still kinda have typecasting issues with Steven Pasquale (Elfman) and have to remember he's not a dumb guy here (like his Sean Garrity on Rescue Me.

I get Grace trusting her teacher enough to not suspect she'd be a vindictive blackmailing bitch. She probably never saw that side of her before...
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God knows, I have balls but threatening Bishop would not be a thing I would do! I like the character and hope he does not go to jail. I don't see how they can salvage Cary's career but it is a TV show, not reality...

I can't see kalinda being killed offeither, due to the other recent murder..

Yeah, daughter, total idiot. I would have NEVER passed on anything my mother said to my teachers and this was waaay before socieal media...The girl has pulled other stunts in the past. She is brain-less. Son is not much better.
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Cary is free.

I feel for Det. Prima, knowing he's not lying about the e-mail. But it seems the ex-partner's testimony is good and shows some rottenness in the case...

Kalinda is doubly fucked. Between the risk on the fraudulent metadata and the 'favor' she now owes Bishop...
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Yes, a really good episode. I do feel for Kalinda. I cannot wait until the election stuff is over. Because I am soooo over it.
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Agree with the election fatigue... Yeah, as much as I like the various actors in the story... Kinda wanna jump ahead to 'okay, we're counting the votes'....
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Agree. Election stuff is boring but love the characters.

I feel so bad for Kalinda. She is screwed. I'm happy Cary is free. Loved the 'prison' training session. I was laughing because I had heard a lot of the same stories he was telling Cary.
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I figure Kalinda gets busted and sent to jail and that's her exit.

(er, um...I thought the political stuff, especially the debate prep was better than Cary's wrap.)
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Good episode. Really hit a lot of current topics and a good job.
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KMI, I agree that the debate prep was better than Cary's wrap as far as writing goes but I just am not in love with the whole campaign storyline. It's just not realistic to have the sitting governor's spouse run for election for anything, much less state's attorney. And I think I am so tired of the perpetual election cycle that I just don't want or need to see it as entertainment on my tv. Also wasn't in love with Cary's storyline for that matter. I don't find him interesting. I am looking forward to seeing more of Diane.
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I don't like the election either but the tie in with the police matter was current. I also think her running would be unrealistic. I have said before this is not my favorite season but the show is still one of the best of regular channels.
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I didn't pick this show up until last year because I rather deplored the premise: a high profile politician cheating with hookers on his gorgeous stand by your man wife.

I really like many of the actors but relatively few of the male actors. I think the show is witty but I haven't loved any of the storylines so far. There are really good moments: last night, Alicia lighting into the reporter and the kitchen impromptu debate stand out and when Alicia's handler basically showed that he was in love with her by not being able to look her in the eyes--a bit of genius acting although I don't need to see the story there. I adore Chris Noth, Julianna Margulies, Christine Baranski, Alan Cumming and the actress who plays his daughter, Archie Panjabi but that's about it. I watch for them and not so much for the story. There are moments I really like but there's a lot I just don't care about at all. I'm finding there is less and less that I am interested on watching on TV. Maybe it's a sign of old age...
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Your description of the premise doesn't really resemble the show they made, though. It was never about a guy cheating on his wife with hookers... it was that that HAD happened, and he was caught, and post-public-scandal, what is she going to do? She went to work. What is her world now? How did she react?
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Right: it had happened already. So plucky wife gets herself a job at a high powered law firm having not practiced law for what? 15 years? Of course that's much, much more interesting than the reality of wife works more at the job she's always had and has a continual internal debate about whether to press ex husband for the court ordered child support he can never seem to pay but threatens to take her to court for custody if she makes too much of a fuss and b)is it ok to insist hubby take child(ren) on court ordered visits if neither child(ren) nor hubby want to do it, even if the new girlfriend seems pretty ok with 'blending' your kids with hers. Never mind that the better paying shifts, now necessary, are also more difficult to live with when raising young children or children, any age because just because you tell yourself they are old enough to stay alone at home for a few hours after school doesn't mean a)that they are and b)that they don't need as much attention/supervision as they did as toddlers plus more money. Oh, and dating. With kids and a deadbeat ex.

That's boring and unfortunately a lot more realistic.

But Alicia gets the job because an old law school flame really does still want to sleep with her plus hubby's high profile might be more of a bonus than a negative.

I get that the reality is much more boring than the show's premise.


I just don't enjoy the actual stories, although I do enjoy the performances of some of the actors very much. And individual scenes.
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I like most of the stories a lot but the Cary thing dragged on way too long. Week to week there is a lot going on.

I didn't care that high power husband had an affair and face it people with connections use them. Those are both pretty realistic stories.

I just don't understand why people who are not happy with their marriage have to pretend they are instead of just divorcing like most other people do. But that too is realistic.
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I was actually rather disappointed with this last episode. I thought the kitchen debate was too contrived and didn't buy it at all. And all of a sudden Diane and Cary are resenting Alicia? It was so obvious the writers sat down and said, okay, the conflict with Cary and the law firm VS the DA is done, so we need a new conflict with Alicia... boom. The writers' plotting was too glaring for me. Plus I despise David, and not in a Boyd Crowder Villain way.
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I liked it.

I'm not sure I like Diane and Cary rushing to bring in David (even if they did just lose their biggest client) but I do think there was enough groundwork laid (and history of super-fast alliance switcheroos) that I don't share that criticism with KMI, that it's now just Alicia's turn to be 'on the outs' now that Cary is in the clear and the abruptness feels sloppy. Alicia is right to shout what she does (re: 'if I were a man') at Diane, who doesn't really refute it, I think, because she kinda KNOWS Alicia is right. It's another reiteration of the theme expressed earlier, that many of us tend to put our OWN troubles ahead of others'...

The kitchen debate was well-done, but we've seen that (the candidates go off-script and get real in private) before, sure.

Based on the video we saw in the beginning, it's pretty impossible to fathom the cops being found Not Guilty... but, um... yeah. Not unrealistic.
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Sadly, Dax, I agree. It's not at all unrealistic.
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When does the show return? I thought it would be this coming weekend.
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3/1. Only two shows in January, and none in February this year... Grammys, Super Bowl, Oscars...
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http://tvline.com/2015/02/25/the-good-wife-kalinda-leaving-alicia-scene-spoilers-season-6/
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Hey, remember this show?

First one back was good.
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Are they going to kill Kalinda? I am sick of the election.
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I hope not, but that's a possibility, sure. I think it's at least a little bit more likely that she lives than dies.

Next season will very probably be the last... They've been doing a very clever thing with the episode titles since the beginning. Season 1's were all one word. 2, two words. 3, three; 4; four. Then they started going back down... 5, three; this year's, two.... Season 7 will have one-word titles again, and then they'll be done... http://epguides.com/GoodWife/

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I liked the 3/1 episode, too. But I agree with Krystal that I am sick of the election stuff. It has at least as much to do with the near constant election cycle in real life as anything with the show. Love seeing David Hyde Pierce.

I am afraid for Kalinda. Next year sounds like the right time to end the show.
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I think you are right about the real life elections. It seems never ending and I don't need it on my pretend shows as well.
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I am actually enjoying the election stuff. Way more than some of the CotW sometimes, and this week in particular since I am not a fan of the Sweeney character or stories, and really thought they stretched too hard to get F, A, L the win.

Alicia's been able to shield herself from the morality issue as a lawyer, defending the Bishops and Sweeneys since they 'have a right to an attorney, a defense, burden of proof on the prosecutor,' yada yada - but now she is letting the gray areas get very very dark gray with the campaign, and I think it's an excellent exploration of her whole dynamic over the seven years.

And since my class just watched "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" the justifications of the Joe Paines of the world rings especially hollow - so her break down in the end was perfect.
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Boy this one was stupid and boring.
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I liked it, but I'm bummed if this is/was our good-bye to Canning.
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