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shallownessThe Good Wife - 6.19 Winning Ugly
My plan was to catch up with this and then watch the next episode live. Like many of my plans, it failed, but I did get to see the whole episode.
Alicia playing with the volume of the news was spot on as a recognisable moment.
Excellent storming by Diane upon the discovery of What Kalinda Did. (I find it really hard to give David Lee the benefit of the doubt and assume he’s not plotting for her disbarment, because without her and possibly Cary, wouldn’t he be closer to being in charge?)
I also found it difficult to believe that Ron Rifkin’s character was worthy of Marissa’s crush and Alicia’s admiration. This was mainly because the man played Arvin Sloane - really, I think a lot of your reaction to this episode would be based on whether you watched Alias or not.
While I was irked with Grace for breaking Will and Alicia up, I do have sympathy for her situation (although Will and Alicia in e-mail correspondence seem to have been a little trite).
Kalinda was right to stand firm on Cary taking her case, even though it meant that, again, Cary had very little to do. I wish Diane hadn’t picked David Lee (after all, family law is his area of expertise) to represent her at the police board although he sets Finn off flatteringly.
Marissa, Not!Arvin Sloane is too old for you.
I cheered Alicia on for recording Ernie Nolan (they love their one-person wire-trap consent on thiw). But it bit her right back.
Diane dropped David Lee – understandably – and relied on Finn when it came to proper court.
I gasped at the revelation about Peter’s election (but Alicia shouldn’t have been surprised, unless if Kalinda was hugely vague about what they had on the microchip. She should have been able to work out what election Peter had been running in that year) I felt vindicated about being suspicious, like I’m sure all Alias viewers were. TWICE.
I wonder if Kalinda’s just going to go and report Bishop to child services or something – all that time she spent with the family can’t have gone nowhere.
All that Party stuff, and yes, it was capitalised, was pretty sinister.
I am not sure what Peter’s through-line in all this was.
What a way to snatch SA away from her and return her to the firm and defending, just as it looks likely to implode because of the current prosecutors’ obsession with Bishop and his tendency to kill anyone who crosses him, never mind the ethics of client-attorney privilege. I don’t mind Alicia coming up against something bigger than her to stop her from being SA, but the way that it all came back to Bishop and Peter, chains they can never quite shake off, is tiring for me as a viewer.
And what will become of Executive Assistant Marissa and her snark now? How has she been paid apart from in entertainment and popcorn?
My plan was to catch up with this and then watch the next episode live. Like many of my plans, it failed, but I did get to see the whole episode.
Alicia playing with the volume of the news was spot on as a recognisable moment.
Excellent storming by Diane upon the discovery of What Kalinda Did. (I find it really hard to give David Lee the benefit of the doubt and assume he’s not plotting for her disbarment, because without her and possibly Cary, wouldn’t he be closer to being in charge?)
I also found it difficult to believe that Ron Rifkin’s character was worthy of Marissa’s crush and Alicia’s admiration. This was mainly because the man played Arvin Sloane - really, I think a lot of your reaction to this episode would be based on whether you watched Alias or not.
While I was irked with Grace for breaking Will and Alicia up, I do have sympathy for her situation (although Will and Alicia in e-mail correspondence seem to have been a little trite).
Kalinda was right to stand firm on Cary taking her case, even though it meant that, again, Cary had very little to do. I wish Diane hadn’t picked David Lee (after all, family law is his area of expertise) to represent her at the police board although he sets Finn off flatteringly.
Marissa, Not!Arvin Sloane is too old for you.
I cheered Alicia on for recording Ernie Nolan (they love their one-person wire-trap consent on thiw). But it bit her right back.
Diane dropped David Lee – understandably – and relied on Finn when it came to proper court.
I gasped at the revelation about Peter’s election (but Alicia shouldn’t have been surprised, unless if Kalinda was hugely vague about what they had on the microchip. She should have been able to work out what election Peter had been running in that year) I felt vindicated about being suspicious, like I’m sure all Alias viewers were. TWICE.
I wonder if Kalinda’s just going to go and report Bishop to child services or something – all that time she spent with the family can’t have gone nowhere.
All that Party stuff, and yes, it was capitalised, was pretty sinister.
I am not sure what Peter’s through-line in all this was.
What a way to snatch SA away from her and return her to the firm and defending, just as it looks likely to implode because of the current prosecutors’ obsession with Bishop and his tendency to kill anyone who crosses him, never mind the ethics of client-attorney privilege. I don’t mind Alicia coming up against something bigger than her to stop her from being SA, but the way that it all came back to Bishop and Peter, chains they can never quite shake off, is tiring for me as a viewer.
And what will become of Executive Assistant Marissa and her snark now? How has she been paid apart from in entertainment and popcorn?
