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shallownessChristine Baranski was on The One Show last night, promoting a one-day run of Follies. She put up with the random vagaries of that show like a champ – I know because I kept it on in the background for her. (Have they finished filming this season already?) Not that The Good Wife was mentioned, per se.
Speaking of,
6.13 Dark Money
Slightly disgruntling, really. The whole case with Sweeney was basically the show twirling about showing how clever it is. How it knows the phrase ‘ripped from the headlines’ has been thrown at it (I did it for the last episode). Look at the over-dramatic opposing counsel. I think having Baker play the actor too was self-indulgent (and his accent didn’t sound fully convincing to these British ears), not to mention another of Sweeney’s partners using a court case about him killing his previous wife as foreplay. I also felt really protective of Marissa as Renata poured herself all over her, although I admit that I’d have been amused if Eli had been around to witness it.
More interesting is yet another client’s lack of faith in Cary and Diane (named partners!) sans Alicia. And it was Alicia who got to the right answers for winning the case, even though she wasn’t paying full attention to it. I was really confused about Chum-Hum. I thought the firm had been dumped in the last episode, and this was following on from that, although they didn’t follow up the Alicia/John weirdness per se. And speaking of that, Toby Ziegler? I was thinking more Sam, although another example of this episode’s meta. Anyway, how is Chum-Hum the firm’s client? Is it through David Lee?
I don’t believe that being knowing is the right attitude when you’ve got a nasty piece of work like Sweeney on display and Alicia getting more and more soiled by politicking and raising funds. Prady came off as more principled in the conversations with Redmayne, plus there’s the looming issue of the PAC. I don’t know what to make of Prady still reaching out any more than Alicia does. At least we ended on Alicia recognising what she’d done and feeling some measure of self-disgust – a hug from Grace is a better way of dealing with it than more wine in one of your giant glasses, love.
Alicia’s situation was interesting, if depressing, and so was Kalinda’s. Setting all the son of Bishop issues aside, I am sure Dylan was delighted to be rescued by a tiny woman outside his school. I’m also sure his bully was delighted to be terrorised by a tiny woman. I noted that Bishop kept talking about his son like the most important ‘thing’ in his life.
So, another not great episode with less stuff of import than last week, maybe, to balance out the sour taste left behind.
Speaking of,
6.13 Dark Money
Slightly disgruntling, really. The whole case with Sweeney was basically the show twirling about showing how clever it is. How it knows the phrase ‘ripped from the headlines’ has been thrown at it (I did it for the last episode). Look at the over-dramatic opposing counsel. I think having Baker play the actor too was self-indulgent (and his accent didn’t sound fully convincing to these British ears), not to mention another of Sweeney’s partners using a court case about him killing his previous wife as foreplay. I also felt really protective of Marissa as Renata poured herself all over her, although I admit that I’d have been amused if Eli had been around to witness it.
More interesting is yet another client’s lack of faith in Cary and Diane (named partners!) sans Alicia. And it was Alicia who got to the right answers for winning the case, even though she wasn’t paying full attention to it. I was really confused about Chum-Hum. I thought the firm had been dumped in the last episode, and this was following on from that, although they didn’t follow up the Alicia/John weirdness per se. And speaking of that, Toby Ziegler? I was thinking more Sam, although another example of this episode’s meta. Anyway, how is Chum-Hum the firm’s client? Is it through David Lee?
I don’t believe that being knowing is the right attitude when you’ve got a nasty piece of work like Sweeney on display and Alicia getting more and more soiled by politicking and raising funds. Prady came off as more principled in the conversations with Redmayne, plus there’s the looming issue of the PAC. I don’t know what to make of Prady still reaching out any more than Alicia does. At least we ended on Alicia recognising what she’d done and feeling some measure of self-disgust – a hug from Grace is a better way of dealing with it than more wine in one of your giant glasses, love.
Alicia’s situation was interesting, if depressing, and so was Kalinda’s. Setting all the son of Bishop issues aside, I am sure Dylan was delighted to be rescued by a tiny woman outside his school. I’m also sure his bully was delighted to be terrorised by a tiny woman. I noted that Bishop kept talking about his son like the most important ‘thing’ in his life.
So, another not great episode with less stuff of import than last week, maybe, to balance out the sour taste left behind.
