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shallowness) wrote2013-04-26 08:24 am
shallowness) wrote2013-04-26 08:24 am
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The Good Wife, 4.14 Red Team/Blue Team
So good! I probably say that after most of the episodes, but I’m still finding new stuff when I think about this one.
Alicia was so angry. Rightly so, she was the injured party until she wasn’t (but then she was compromised and her promotion was tarnished. And yes Kalinda, take Cary out for drinks.) In fact, I thought Will and Diane were stupid for asking Cary and Alicia to play their opposition in the mock trial after the equity partners’ decision. How did they think they were going to react?
I said the second that the ground rules were set out ‘depends who’s going to get Kalinda’. Glad Cary thought the same way – and I was right - although I also wonder if Zach helped his mother on the IT front.
But also there was that opening speech where Alicia laid out Will’s techniques brilliantly – duh, Will, she’s not just an ex-lover, she’s Alicia who has worked next to you for years now. And she was mad. I loved that he was mortified and energised – of course he said ‘Game on.’
Side note – and though I think they should have picked someone else, Alicia and Cary were shown to be the leaders and the most astute of The Fourth Year Associates. I started going Collectivism yay!, bargaining power yay!, tactics yay! and Grace and Zach got all whey faced about their mom losing her job. Of course, she backed down – and the later line about ‘get what we want’ was pathetic and Alicia and Cary knew it, because what they wanted was to get the partnerships they’d all been offered – because it’s the US and a capitalist law firm and she’s ambitious and has kids and doesn’t want to go backwards and has learned to even take David Lee’s brutal truth that the Florrick name meant the most.
I loved that Alicia and Will were reading each other better than everyone else for most of this – and that the possible interpretations of motives were there. And then the fight!!! And yes, even though will has been feeling powerless (it goes back to the last season at least, with Alicia dumping him, getting investigated, getting suspended, fighting bankruptcy, dealing with the equity partners) she’s the injured party here. And she’s been before and she doesn’t like it AND – okay, I didn’t think that the actual kiss was the best screenkiss we’ve seen from these two – but the build-up and the aftermath, and the conversation after the mock trial and THEIR EYES, and his poor heart, because if he thought he was getting over it in any way, he knows now he hasn’t, and it’s all so complicated for her (especially as she’s using her husband for sex and stumping up her equity stake these days) AND US, SHOW. I spent the post-kiss portion of the show being both amused at Alicia and Will – who were lucky they could pretend to be worried about other stuff, but Will inching into Diane’s personal space to put some distance between him and Alicia in front of the judge was hilarious – and feeling for them. He only trusted himself with giving her a handshake.
WAAAAAAH, YOU TWO!
Meanwhile, Diane was genuinely pleased about Alicia’s promotion, which at heart I think she’s always been.
And Alicia and Cary were right to go for it in the mock trial (even if they were fuelled by rage). The second we heard about it, I was dubious of the clients’ rightness. So weird to see Raphael ‘Jiminy Cricket’ Sparge play a shady, ruthless businessman. The point that a half-decent law firm could find enough of that stuff (maybe they wouldn’t have Kalinda and Alicia’s knowledge of opposing counsel or The Rage, but they’d have more time too) was always true. It was also fun in a meta sense to see a mock trial in a show that has one nearly every episode.
But there’s more! Tascioni. I actually wondered if she could have a spin-off please, in which she was quirky and put off her clients, but then brilliant. I suppose not (her quirks plus the DOJ guys’ – but Eli’s reaction, PERFECT, Alan Cumming) worked well to offset the rest of what was going on in the ep, but I don’t know if it would work as the main show. I was duped. I was very excited about Elsbeth taking down the DOJ shredder, as I’m wont to get with this show (it does sometimes trade very much on the viewer taking sides, for all the time that it trades on our ambivalence). Then I fell for Eli, betrayed by Peter and new boy, going along with it. I suppose Tascioni talked him out of it because she had the plan. And it was SWEET. As was the name of the form she wanted tripping off her tongue.
When Cary proposed Florrick and Agos, there were echoes of Lockhart and Gardner, which I never saw before. But that is brilliant.
Aww, Cary. You looked really good in those casuals! Alicia’s cream jacket at the end looked like leather to me, and I really liked it, as well as the use of red.
Yikes, that got long. But there was so much good stuff.
Alicia was so angry. Rightly so, she was the injured party until she wasn’t (but then she was compromised and her promotion was tarnished. And yes Kalinda, take Cary out for drinks.) In fact, I thought Will and Diane were stupid for asking Cary and Alicia to play their opposition in the mock trial after the equity partners’ decision. How did they think they were going to react?
I said the second that the ground rules were set out ‘depends who’s going to get Kalinda’. Glad Cary thought the same way – and I was right - although I also wonder if Zach helped his mother on the IT front.
But also there was that opening speech where Alicia laid out Will’s techniques brilliantly – duh, Will, she’s not just an ex-lover, she’s Alicia who has worked next to you for years now. And she was mad. I loved that he was mortified and energised – of course he said ‘Game on.’
Side note – and though I think they should have picked someone else, Alicia and Cary were shown to be the leaders and the most astute of The Fourth Year Associates. I started going Collectivism yay!, bargaining power yay!, tactics yay! and Grace and Zach got all whey faced about their mom losing her job. Of course, she backed down – and the later line about ‘get what we want’ was pathetic and Alicia and Cary knew it, because what they wanted was to get the partnerships they’d all been offered – because it’s the US and a capitalist law firm and she’s ambitious and has kids and doesn’t want to go backwards and has learned to even take David Lee’s brutal truth that the Florrick name meant the most.
I loved that Alicia and Will were reading each other better than everyone else for most of this – and that the possible interpretations of motives were there. And then the fight!!! And yes, even though will has been feeling powerless (it goes back to the last season at least, with Alicia dumping him, getting investigated, getting suspended, fighting bankruptcy, dealing with the equity partners) she’s the injured party here. And she’s been before and she doesn’t like it AND – okay, I didn’t think that the actual kiss was the best screenkiss we’ve seen from these two – but the build-up and the aftermath, and the conversation after the mock trial and THEIR EYES, and his poor heart, because if he thought he was getting over it in any way, he knows now he hasn’t, and it’s all so complicated for her (especially as she’s using her husband for sex and stumping up her equity stake these days) AND US, SHOW. I spent the post-kiss portion of the show being both amused at Alicia and Will – who were lucky they could pretend to be worried about other stuff, but Will inching into Diane’s personal space to put some distance between him and Alicia in front of the judge was hilarious – and feeling for them. He only trusted himself with giving her a handshake.
WAAAAAAH, YOU TWO!
Meanwhile, Diane was genuinely pleased about Alicia’s promotion, which at heart I think she’s always been.
And Alicia and Cary were right to go for it in the mock trial (even if they were fuelled by rage). The second we heard about it, I was dubious of the clients’ rightness. So weird to see Raphael ‘Jiminy Cricket’ Sparge play a shady, ruthless businessman. The point that a half-decent law firm could find enough of that stuff (maybe they wouldn’t have Kalinda and Alicia’s knowledge of opposing counsel or The Rage, but they’d have more time too) was always true. It was also fun in a meta sense to see a mock trial in a show that has one nearly every episode.
But there’s more! Tascioni. I actually wondered if she could have a spin-off please, in which she was quirky and put off her clients, but then brilliant. I suppose not (her quirks plus the DOJ guys’ – but Eli’s reaction, PERFECT, Alan Cumming) worked well to offset the rest of what was going on in the ep, but I don’t know if it would work as the main show. I was duped. I was very excited about Elsbeth taking down the DOJ shredder, as I’m wont to get with this show (it does sometimes trade very much on the viewer taking sides, for all the time that it trades on our ambivalence). Then I fell for Eli, betrayed by Peter and new boy, going along with it. I suppose Tascioni talked him out of it because she had the plan. And it was SWEET. As was the name of the form she wanted tripping off her tongue.
When Cary proposed Florrick and Agos, there were echoes of Lockhart and Gardner, which I never saw before. But that is brilliant.
Aww, Cary. You looked really good in those casuals! Alicia’s cream jacket at the end looked like leather to me, and I really liked it, as well as the use of red.
Yikes, that got long. But there was so much good stuff.