What I've been up to (2/?)
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shallownessI had a Matthew Goode double-bill last night, of sorts, as he turns up in Belle, a costume drama about intersectionality. Although that description is true - it’s a film based on a true life story and it’s heroine is Dido Belle Lindsay, the mixed race member of an upper class eighteenth century English family – it’s also a coming of age story and a love story with a rootable, nuanced heroine.
It also allowed me to make ‘Emily of’ jokes because there’s a character called Elizabeth Murray, made me long to see Penelope Wilton in a Georgette Heyer adaptation and makes me think that Tom Felton’s agent should try harder to avoid typecasting.
And then there was the Good Wife
5.21 The One Percent
It ended with me basically cheering Diane on as she goes about cutting Canning DOWN, hopefully, for the final episode of this season. (I'm lining up my DVD boxsets.)
Totally understandably, from all parties, I think that the ladies – Alicia, Diane and Kalinda – would be much happier with a merger than Cary. Kalinda’s handling of Louis was a beaut, I also liked that they dropped in that he’d found out she’d been investigating him. (In days gone by, Kalinda might have been investigating Finn for Eli. And in another sidenote, we haven’t seen Robin for a while.)
Canning’s battle with Alicia and Cary (and their ‘maverick’ client) was entertaining. I liked the consistency of Canning wanting Kale Pepper (although I was confused about what evils they were specifically up to, at the end they sounded like a pharmaceutical company but not in the details of the class action) because it’s a big company.
Also, entertaining deployment of Harold.
I kept expecting Alicia’s client to be revealed as not wanting the big merger, actually, and that was why he was shooting his mouth off, but I suppose the main point was Canning and the look at wealth. Is Alicia rich enough to be in the 1%? I doubt it, but at least the show’s addressing it – reminding me of all that business with the house last year. Was it last year? Anyway, it was easy to set aside her emotional attachment to the house and not feel very sorry for her on that.
Also, there was a slight callback in her mixing up the black male presenters to mistaking the men at the party, yes. Not so much St Alicia. And whoa, I'm coming across as bitchy, when I'm mostly on her side.
Two nice details, that Hersh (sp) was getting wearied of working with Tascioni and that Kalinda/Cary is still a thing (even if their trust issues are as big as ever and question marks remain over their priorities).
But the other main thing was Eli cottoning on to the arrangement between Alicia and Peter. I liked that, even coming from his particular Eli Goldish direction, he pointed out that the arrangement is a daft one. Because what could possibly go wrong? Of course it’s going to work out as Alicia’s intimated.
Anyway, it was good to see Peter’s side of things, especially with Eli getting involved and, eventually, up to speed. Although if he thought that the state of Peter and Alicia’s marriage was healthy if he was having to arrange a get-together for them, his barometer is worse than he realises.
And so Finn is drawn into it all and we get informed he’s divorced. Oho, show, I see what you’re doing. I don’t know what I think about it, but we’ll see how it plays out. So, because of Castro’s machinations, Peter’s jealousy and Eli’s lack of information, Finn as a romantic/sexual option has been put on Alicia’s mental table, where I don’t think he was before.
I think I could have lived with a few more things being chucked in people’s faces. Who else noted that Castro should be grateful he just got water in his face (twice, heh) and not a punch, given Peter’s record?
It also allowed me to make ‘Emily of’ jokes because there’s a character called Elizabeth Murray, made me long to see Penelope Wilton in a Georgette Heyer adaptation and makes me think that Tom Felton’s agent should try harder to avoid typecasting.
And then there was the Good Wife
5.21 The One Percent
It ended with me basically cheering Diane on as she goes about cutting Canning DOWN, hopefully, for the final episode of this season. (I'm lining up my DVD boxsets.)
Totally understandably, from all parties, I think that the ladies – Alicia, Diane and Kalinda – would be much happier with a merger than Cary. Kalinda’s handling of Louis was a beaut, I also liked that they dropped in that he’d found out she’d been investigating him. (In days gone by, Kalinda might have been investigating Finn for Eli. And in another sidenote, we haven’t seen Robin for a while.)
Canning’s battle with Alicia and Cary (and their ‘maverick’ client) was entertaining. I liked the consistency of Canning wanting Kale Pepper (although I was confused about what evils they were specifically up to, at the end they sounded like a pharmaceutical company but not in the details of the class action) because it’s a big company.
Also, entertaining deployment of Harold.
I kept expecting Alicia’s client to be revealed as not wanting the big merger, actually, and that was why he was shooting his mouth off, but I suppose the main point was Canning and the look at wealth. Is Alicia rich enough to be in the 1%? I doubt it, but at least the show’s addressing it – reminding me of all that business with the house last year. Was it last year? Anyway, it was easy to set aside her emotional attachment to the house and not feel very sorry for her on that.
Also, there was a slight callback in her mixing up the black male presenters to mistaking the men at the party, yes. Not so much St Alicia. And whoa, I'm coming across as bitchy, when I'm mostly on her side.
Two nice details, that Hersh (sp) was getting wearied of working with Tascioni and that Kalinda/Cary is still a thing (even if their trust issues are as big as ever and question marks remain over their priorities).
But the other main thing was Eli cottoning on to the arrangement between Alicia and Peter. I liked that, even coming from his particular Eli Goldish direction, he pointed out that the arrangement is a daft one. Because what could possibly go wrong? Of course it’s going to work out as Alicia’s intimated.
Anyway, it was good to see Peter’s side of things, especially with Eli getting involved and, eventually, up to speed. Although if he thought that the state of Peter and Alicia’s marriage was healthy if he was having to arrange a get-together for them, his barometer is worse than he realises.
And so Finn is drawn into it all and we get informed he’s divorced. Oho, show, I see what you’re doing. I don’t know what I think about it, but we’ll see how it plays out. So, because of Castro’s machinations, Peter’s jealousy and Eli’s lack of information, Finn as a romantic/sexual option has been put on Alicia’s mental table, where I don’t think he was before.
I think I could have lived with a few more things being chucked in people’s faces. Who else noted that Castro should be grateful he just got water in his face (twice, heh) and not a punch, given Peter’s record?
