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shallowness) wrote2014-03-21 08:14 am
shallowness) wrote2014-03-21 08:14 am
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The Good Wife 5.8 The Next Month
I’m typing ths very softly, but I don’t think this last episode was quite as gripping as everything else that’s happened this season. Yes, it was the first (non-paying) client that Florrick & Agos got, and obviously, his life was saved, but not legally. Plus Natalie's boss met Lockhart & Gardner.
Part of the problem was that I wasn’t really into Eli/Natalie. Yes, so we saw him flustered, fighting fate and making grand gestures and America Ferreira is altogether charming, but I could shrug it all off.
I did feel for Robin though, her face when she overheard the Carys. Kalinda’s advice seemed sound, but watching Robin go to further and further lengths and break laws was worrisome. It also meant that Alicia was giving her best pleading (to a succession of people at a succession of places) without any idea of the provenance of their intelligence. I know intellectually that this has happened before, but there was a disconnect. It’s partly that it is her own firm. So there was irony in Alicia and Cary exchanging condolances that the people around them have changed, without realising how much they have to do with it. Also, again, Cary snapped first (with the case worker).
Meanwhile at ‘LG’ (ha, that’s not going to stick), there was Howard putting his foot in it, David being mean, Will dodging questions about Alicia and some eye-rolling and wincing from Diane. The Goverenor’s office stuff was relatively low key, and Marilyn IS using her pregnancy.
It felt as if the balance of things going off and things being set up (Eli wanting to prove himself to Natalie influencing him unduly, Natalie's boss' impression of Howard might lead places), which has been so well judged, wasn’t there.
And another thing, Alicia getting ratty new offices was, for me, haunted by the shadows of Borgen season 3, in terms of visuals etc. So when Peter complimented her about being able to take over the world, I was muttering ‘she could, but only if the Danish foreign secretary let her’.
I’m typing ths very softly, but I don’t think this last episode was quite as gripping as everything else that’s happened this season. Yes, it was the first (non-paying) client that Florrick & Agos got, and obviously, his life was saved, but not legally. Plus Natalie's boss met Lockhart & Gardner.
Part of the problem was that I wasn’t really into Eli/Natalie. Yes, so we saw him flustered, fighting fate and making grand gestures and America Ferreira is altogether charming, but I could shrug it all off.
I did feel for Robin though, her face when she overheard the Carys. Kalinda’s advice seemed sound, but watching Robin go to further and further lengths and break laws was worrisome. It also meant that Alicia was giving her best pleading (to a succession of people at a succession of places) without any idea of the provenance of their intelligence. I know intellectually that this has happened before, but there was a disconnect. It’s partly that it is her own firm. So there was irony in Alicia and Cary exchanging condolances that the people around them have changed, without realising how much they have to do with it. Also, again, Cary snapped first (with the case worker).
Meanwhile at ‘LG’ (ha, that’s not going to stick), there was Howard putting his foot in it, David being mean, Will dodging questions about Alicia and some eye-rolling and wincing from Diane. The Goverenor’s office stuff was relatively low key, and Marilyn IS using her pregnancy.
It felt as if the balance of things going off and things being set up (Eli wanting to prove himself to Natalie influencing him unduly, Natalie's boss' impression of Howard might lead places), which has been so well judged, wasn’t there.
And another thing, Alicia getting ratty new offices was, for me, haunted by the shadows of Borgen season 3, in terms of visuals etc. So when Peter complimented her about being able to take over the world, I was muttering ‘she could, but only if the Danish foreign secretary let her’.