Women in power
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shallownessThe Good Wife 6.16 Red Meat
I watched it and I was engrossed at the time, although I thought it could have been better – referencing The West Wing when the show has been borrowing from it anyway seemed like a bit of a clunker. (I just found myself worrying about Melissa Fitzgerald’s career.)
I’ve been waiting to see where they’d go with the result for Alicia – partly because I felt they rowed back on the bravery of setting the new firm, so I was thinking ‘oh well, she’s lost then’. I feel less invested in Diane’s need for clients to bring into the old offices than I did when it was Alicia, Cary and gang building up their firm in their ramshackle offices. And why was David Lee in on all that? Why are they trusting him after everything?
I felt that having Kalinda at work (or the ever elusive Robyn) might have avoided some of Diane’s faux-pas. In fact, I thought that the whole episode might turn out to be about Kalinda not being able to vote because of Bishop’s problems. Perhaps it was a step too far to have the confrontation over Kevin, well, Kalinda’s tail and poor Kevin’s latest expulsion, make Bishop reform ON ELECTION DAY. It just felt that there was too much going on there – perhaps Kalinda being referred to as Mrs Bishop was the tipping point. I mean, I can see how it works in terms of unexpected pressure from Bishop on Alicia rather than what she thought it’d be, where Kalinda fits in and the tensions with the staff and what direction Alicia will want to take.
Anyway, Alicia won, even though we all learned Prady is the better person, probably. His last pitch and refusal of the offer of deputy managed to be thought-provoking, more so than Diane’s culture wars, even if they did manage not to be too pointed, in the final analysis, over abortion.
Peter didn’t realise he didn’t want Alicia to win until she called him on it, I thik. But at least he helped her win (in a shady, but not as shady as it could have been way).
Obviously, I hope Marissa will stay and look after Alicia – she was marvellous.
Jon won’t. That moment where he went from dorky excitement to realising Alicia won’t leave Peter for him was pretty sad (so it is going to be Finn, purveyor of Halo gifts – I did wonder if all this loose talk over headphones might come back to haunt them).
I can’t get too worked up about what next. This may be partly because of my current emotional state, but a lot of it is because of what the show’s done recently.
Home Fires Ep 3
November 1939 – skipped a month. The broad brush thing in the main didn’t work for me this time around, partly because ‘will my man be called up/volunteer’ is getting overdone. However, Susan and her sister’s relationship plus the running battle with Joyce Cameron is still fun and gripping. The best moment, after a too poetic speech, was Steph, getting that her husband was going and, seeing it was a fait accompli, supporting him in her own way. (I’m saying that when I saw the vicar’s decision as a bit selfish, because he was blind to the service he could and would offer, and the sacrifice he was unilaterally demanding of his community. And what of Steph’s son without his father?). It’s just that, generally, having a woman see the broader picture (even if I disagree with her!) instead of just her personal pain, especially when we’ve had several examples of that, is something I welcome seeing in fictional war narratives.
Nearly everything else was too obvious, like Alice’s indecision over nicking the sub (just one of those hesitations would have been fine with a side of Boris as her conscience). The camera loved the close-ups of our young couples. Aww, Claire and your postman, I liked you more than Kate and her pilot, until he unilaterally decided to dump you for your own good.
At least it looks like the WI is going to be on Bob’s case. He’s a two-dimensional bully, but it’s still distressing to watch domestic violence.
I watched it and I was engrossed at the time, although I thought it could have been better – referencing The West Wing when the show has been borrowing from it anyway seemed like a bit of a clunker. (I just found myself worrying about Melissa Fitzgerald’s career.)
I’ve been waiting to see where they’d go with the result for Alicia – partly because I felt they rowed back on the bravery of setting the new firm, so I was thinking ‘oh well, she’s lost then’. I feel less invested in Diane’s need for clients to bring into the old offices than I did when it was Alicia, Cary and gang building up their firm in their ramshackle offices. And why was David Lee in on all that? Why are they trusting him after everything?
I felt that having Kalinda at work (or the ever elusive Robyn) might have avoided some of Diane’s faux-pas. In fact, I thought that the whole episode might turn out to be about Kalinda not being able to vote because of Bishop’s problems. Perhaps it was a step too far to have the confrontation over Kevin, well, Kalinda’s tail and poor Kevin’s latest expulsion, make Bishop reform ON ELECTION DAY. It just felt that there was too much going on there – perhaps Kalinda being referred to as Mrs Bishop was the tipping point. I mean, I can see how it works in terms of unexpected pressure from Bishop on Alicia rather than what she thought it’d be, where Kalinda fits in and the tensions with the staff and what direction Alicia will want to take.
Anyway, Alicia won, even though we all learned Prady is the better person, probably. His last pitch and refusal of the offer of deputy managed to be thought-provoking, more so than Diane’s culture wars, even if they did manage not to be too pointed, in the final analysis, over abortion.
Peter didn’t realise he didn’t want Alicia to win until she called him on it, I thik. But at least he helped her win (in a shady, but not as shady as it could have been way).
Obviously, I hope Marissa will stay and look after Alicia – she was marvellous.
Jon won’t. That moment where he went from dorky excitement to realising Alicia won’t leave Peter for him was pretty sad (so it is going to be Finn, purveyor of Halo gifts – I did wonder if all this loose talk over headphones might come back to haunt them).
I can’t get too worked up about what next. This may be partly because of my current emotional state, but a lot of it is because of what the show’s done recently.
Home Fires Ep 3
November 1939 – skipped a month. The broad brush thing in the main didn’t work for me this time around, partly because ‘will my man be called up/volunteer’ is getting overdone. However, Susan and her sister’s relationship plus the running battle with Joyce Cameron is still fun and gripping. The best moment, after a too poetic speech, was Steph, getting that her husband was going and, seeing it was a fait accompli, supporting him in her own way. (I’m saying that when I saw the vicar’s decision as a bit selfish, because he was blind to the service he could and would offer, and the sacrifice he was unilaterally demanding of his community. And what of Steph’s son without his father?). It’s just that, generally, having a woman see the broader picture (even if I disagree with her!) instead of just her personal pain, especially when we’ve had several examples of that, is something I welcome seeing in fictional war narratives.
Nearly everything else was too obvious, like Alice’s indecision over nicking the sub (just one of those hesitations would have been fine with a side of Boris as her conscience). The camera loved the close-ups of our young couples. Aww, Claire and your postman, I liked you more than Kate and her pilot, until he unilaterally decided to dump you for your own good.
At least it looks like the WI is going to be on Bob’s case. He’s a two-dimensional bully, but it’s still distressing to watch domestic violence.
