The Good Wife Season 3 (Premiers September 25)

Good gods, you've got amazing recall. An obscure Sports Night in-joke (considering the way Josh Charles' character and hers interacted) that I missed. ;_; xpost`

i have seen sports night so many times. so. many. times.

I was disappointed when Peter agreed to give that douchey supporter a job, but also rolling my eyes at the way Donna Brazille should've known the very reason no one was willing to vouch for him is because he was running a clean office with no favors.

eventually all of dan rydell's love/hate/flirt objects should be cast. we've had lisa edelstein and this person who's playing his sister. we need teri polo and that chick who played dan's shrink in the second season.

xp

i think donna brazile probably did know that and did not care. which rings true; i mean, i like donna brazile, but she's a professional political operative.

also, remember in the second season, that wack social network episode? i thought the screenwriter was supposed to be sorkin, with his criticisms of the internet age and his alleged past drug abuse.

I bow down to your knowledge of Sports Night trivia -- I don't even remember Teri Polo on the show, and I initially thought that his shrink was played by Paula Marshall even though I also know that her character was the pr0n star that Jeremy dated -- I need to dust off my DVDs. Maybe they can work Hillary Clinton into The Good Wife and he can mix up secular and the other thing again.

See I'd like to think I'd have spotted the Social Network ref except that I kind of didn't know that Sorkin wrote the screenplay.

And while they're at it, CBS can add a laugh track to the show.

don't even remember teri polo??? for shame.

The other sister (Merritt Wever) is k-funny on Nurse Jackie.

man i hate that lawyer from michigan. this show has such good hateful characters.

lol at first I knew her as John Adams' daughter-in-law, but the actress has made that scummy law-bag her own and am all about hating her now, which was why it felt so nice when she of all people objected to the little personal asides Caitlinn threw into her questioning.

it's meryl streep's daughter you know.

I saw she's getting a medical drama pilot (for the CW, so whatever).

Caitlin twist this ep was pretty classic GW misdirect.

Sure had David Lee fooled!

V v sad to not see any more Gardner sisters.

Sure had David Lee fooled!

renewed, which is nice. does that mean they can go back to putting the soapier elements on the backburner?

...would there be a show left without the soapy elements?

were the non-soapy elements originally supposed to be (a) the arc of peter's re-entry into politics, and (b) the question of whether peter and alicia would reconcile, and (c) alicia's self-fulfillment-through-professional-success narrative?

I'm not disputing that the show is built on soapy elements, but it's seemed more blatant about it lately, not just w/ the Alicia master plot getting hammier recently, but the Matt Czuchry stuff, bringing back maybe-wife-killer Dylan Baker super quickly (with a sexual harassment suit!)...they're just laying on the draaahma a little thicker than usual.

though thankfully the Sedaris/Cumming stuff is gone for now I guess? thank christ. (that was objectionable on diff't grounds.)

i thought the cary bit at the end this week was pretty righteous. until he had to say something about the perception his going unpunished would create. but still.

eli has really been diminished as a character since his initial run as a foul-mouthed mastermind operator.

maybe a different way to think about the proliferation of chaotic subplots is to look at the characters that are around and the relationships and interactions they can plausibly have given the larger-scale plot developments. the first season had a really marvelous nexus between alicia's work relationships and home relationships, and both of those were pretty complex and shifting (because of her prior relation to will, her parity with cary at the beginning, but her affinity with diane, at work; and for obvious reasons at home but especially in light of peter's mother's role in the family). alicia has moved in and out of proximity to different people since then, with the same kind of dynamic that's constrained by the relationships and power interests of the others, but it seems like the frames have rarely been drawn as definitely or as stably since, i dunno.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/movies/finding-the-right-wig-for-the-role-on-screen.html?ref=movies

apparently juliana margulies wears a wig on this show. i just thought she had been having her hair straightened for three years.

a couple great moments this ep, i thought. the scene with "look more worried" and the fakeout with the recusal.

Jackie is the evilest person on the show, btw.

Loved the episode. Interestingly, during the episode, I'd been wondering where Jackie had gotten to.

'so you're the woman... i'm the black.'

Posey and Cumming again -- awesome chemistry.

So much deliciousness this week.

now that was a proper episode.

The idea of someone taking the ankle clips was pretty bogus though. And how did they get back to their proper place (assuming they did) if the bike didn't get back? Who the hell wears ankle clips in the first place?

Well, when you take ALL of someone's clothing, I guess the ankle clips would go too.

What's wrong with Matthew Perry? He sounds terrible.

i can see how it's a matthew perry role but i want matthew perry out of my good wife

he is the worst

he's not even remotely good at being a slimy terrible person.

being totally insufferable is like the point of that character though.

he's not even insufferable, he's just a bunch of bleh, adding nothing

i thought it was great, i just want to punch him in the face while running away cringing

Yeah, I really liked the complete barefacedness of his lying. He's not as good a sleaze as Jackie, though.

jackie is a great villain of our time

Well, when you take ALL of someone's clothing, I guess the ankle clips would go too.― Johnny Fever

I meant before the murder. What kind of person "borrows" a bike and leg cuff clips

I didn't follow the case at all, waaay more interested in the campaign and Jackie subplots this week.

DNC dbag crushing Parker Posey's dreams has me considering voting for Ron Paul now.

that episode was pretty bad, but PREZ!

i don't know why the writing was so dumb and obvious. like when alicia turned to kalinda and was like. "lana's going to get you killed!" thanks for spelling that out, show.

Yeah, this wasn't great. Also, it's already Season Finale Time? WTF. I guess so, but it doesn't seem like it.

This season is 22 eps, whereas the first two were 23.

Lots of twists! None of them terribly good. Sorta dud for a season finale imo, but at least it's already been renewed iirc so that's a good thing.

There was nothing really cliffhanger-ish about the episode, just lots of threads left hanging. Felt more like the episode before a finale.

Premieres 9/30 (or 30/9 to you Euros/programmers).