The Good Wife Season 3 (Premiers September 25)

yeah i mean that's what i was wondering i guess, like they said it was a car accident (!)

they did. but that's not super believable. it's just… what appears to be the case.

but presumably someone has the tape of dude saying that he set up casey, right?

by someone i mean dude who just got fired from the DA's office

well knowing this show, probably no - they couldn't let cary off too fast

RIP Cary, maybe they can make Eli's daughter a partner.

poor cary :( that was a hell of an episode, though.

I just started watching this show, holy hell is it good

my wife and I blasted through all the episodes in the space of a month or so. it's fucking great! it's weird how archie panjabi's American accent seems to get worse over the course of the series tho

Also, rmde @ Ramona probably mispronouncing Sleater-Kinney.

Really surprised that upper-class professional strivers would know about SK, but maybe it's retroactive Portlandia aura.

WHAT

Dan, give or take 5-6 episodes it's basically six solid seasons of really good-to-totally greatness

I just started watching this show, holy hell is it good

― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, November 24, 2014 2:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awesome yes just wait it gets even better as it goes

what were we supposed to take from the intern's mom meeting w the governor? my roommates were talking in that scene

― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, October 13, 2014 12:19 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg elspeth's ~~mind~~

― j., Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:50 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

deej i think nothing? there appeared to be no subtext, just that peter literally was able to dump the intern because he knew her mom and she wanted her moved

― j., Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:50 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:D

i also just finished watching the whole series over the last 3 months...the wait for this weeks episode was so painful.

ftr I started with the new episode about three weeks ago, nobody's got time to binge on old seasons over here

The intern's mom is old friend of Alicia and Peter; he had an affair with her while A. was pregnant with Grace (she says while showing him recent pix of them together)(P. reminds A. that this lady is now his attorney).

So, Castro's revenge on Alicia and Peter (who withdrew his endorsement of C.) is to cause the conviction of her law partner, who is in cahoots, ladies and gentleman, with the drug dealer, long-time client of and current campaign contributor to St. Alicia. Okay, but why did Bishop screw over Kalinda? He wanted to teach her a lesson for threatening him with Child Services (pix of known dealers entering/leaving his house during hours when kid was usually there). Seemingly not worried about son actually being taken---so he's got that much of an understanding with DA Castro, or somebody, despite surveillance of his home...

I hope Kalinda will leave the show (announced for end of this season) after doing something to Bishop to rescue or at least avenge Cary, then escaping, riding off into the sunset with her fallen FBI gf (or maybe the blonde cop)---on a motorcycle, dammit.
This won't help Alicia, but I wouldn't vote for shady her or righteous TV guy.

IDK, that DINO ad was pretty lulzy.

seasons 1-4 were amazing above and beyond never before seen television.

season 5 was p much shit.

season 6 i dunno.

whaaaaaa S5 was the best!

I kind of feel the same as surm.

Matthew Goode, huh? had no idea

Yeah he's been a regular for a year now

season 5 was the most gratuitous shit i had ever seen, after all the nuance of the first 4 seasons. all the subtlety went out the door.

it turned into like a middle of the road ABC show.

season 4 had by far the worst plot line, kalinda's ex-husband's reign of terror

uh but you got to see Kalinda beat him up? and that's like, never bad television.

the irish guy in season 5 probably second worst.

So many Poochies.

Luckily they've been pretty good at taking notice of when a character's not working and dispatching them pretty swiftly (except for Kalinda)

All the seasons are good! I think the current one has been fucking fantastic (albeit a coupla blips in the middle). The only weak patch was the Kalinda/Marc Warren era, and the second half of that season got well back on track.

Either way, I can't think of another one-hour show that's remained consistently great into its sixth season.

yeah, i love this show. i do miss some of the more procedural seasons/episodes, but i am glad that they mix it up.

the whole trick about the first 4 (rip Tony Scott) was that it actually got me excited about law. and the writing was believable, and understated. then BAM! season 5 and it's all wacky punch lines and dramatic blows. i was sad :( i barely even finished it and i don't know if i care enough to watch the 6th. but we'll see. not to mention the Will thing. oldest trick in the book - done wrong

I disagree. Charles was done with the show and they needed a definitive end for the character so that everyone else wouldn't always be musing as to what he was up to and how he was doing. I thought the fallout, especially, was really artfully handled. Given all the horrendous things these characters have had a hand in it felt dramatically appropriate to me to have their safe remove from events just disappear for once, and with absolutely no corny foreshadowing.

Totally agree.

Season 5 is one of the best, the 1st 2 seasons are way more uneven, gets better as it goes imo

Season 6 feels pretty "average" so far, which is to say still good. Panjabi's departure is coming too late, if anything - the fact that she and Margulies are never physically in the same room gets more distracting every episode (40 episodes or so now!)

Sarah Steele was a smart addition

Kinda think they should so just one more season after this one, wrap it up and end strong

they could ride this character arc all the way to the white house tho

or at least the senate

They should make her become Secretary of State so that they can show Madam Secretary how it's done.

whenever I catch any of Madam Secretary (while waiting for TGW to start) it seems so transparently like the zero-cal, sad shadow of TGW on like every level, it's not even fair

Love this show. EXCITEMENT AND KISSING.

Herc is even Hercier than he was on The Wire.

Though I have to say, I haven't loved this show since the end of last season. The narrative maneuvering seems a little more obvious than usual.

Yeah perhaps the legal stuff has been a little soapier -- I like all the little idiosyncrasies and journalistic details in the weekly cases -- although I guess the procedural element will be back next week? But The Cary story has been pretty thrilling, and I love that every episode is a fucking machine.

alflijlijliwjdliwjliwjl @ this latest ep

In a good way?

yah just hair-pulling plot developments