The Good Wife Season 3 (Premiers September 25)

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

yeah really love the way the resolved one plotline here while leaving an even bigger one wide open

and they didn't use quite the old misleading crosscut-montage trick that soderbergh likes so much, but they did come very close. the editing on this show is top notch

Archie's accent getting Britisher the closer to the end.

Midseason finale not so good.

That was a very comforting fairytale.

Archie's accent getting Britisher the closer to the end.

yeah, i commented on this upthread too. it's like she's stopped trying altogether!

"God, handsome men are so weak."

Marissa is now the best character on the whole show

Agreed. I would totally let her get that tramp stamp.

catching up on a backlog of episodes - the one from a couple of weeks back with alicia suffering from laryngitis and working her way through a bunch of scenarios in her head was fantastic. i love it when this show gets tricksy with the format.

That one was good, but overall it's been pretty meh of late.

they really surprised my with the last ep -- didn't think they were going to follow through that way on character development. i guess they're fine with always changing things up.

No thoughts on the last ep?

been saving em up since after the midseason break

really underwhelming tbh, this season is maybe the least impressive to date

Can't help but feel like her losing her position as states attorney so fast was a bit of a cop out

woof. not my favorite season. definite step down from s.'s 4+5

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-good-wife-and-the-good-life

this is a good pt though

Interesting article. But yeah, although the exploration of failure is quite an interesting route to go, I'm not sure they found the most dramatically interesting way to go with that. great first half of the season, and the final two-three eps felt partway back on form, but the stretch inbetween felt really off its game. Still, I think the critic's cliche -- "even when it's bad, it's better than most other stuff" -- still applies, if only because most other stuff doesn't have Diane in it.

I seem to say interesting a lot.

wow, just looking up what else Archie Panjabi has been in on IMDB and apparently she did voiceovers for Postman Pat. whodathunkit?

JUst been watching this show through after seeing people talking about it 9n here. I think I'm about half way through this series.

& its been ok, but has had some super dumb things in like the Hugo Chavez thing, which might be series 2.

BUt Archie's pretty tasty anyway.

This show is on fire again.

Consistently my favorite drama on television. Im pretty picky though and don't watch any other drama on television.

The latest ep was really good

Unless im tripping, I remember Robert Wyatt mentioning that he likes to watch Good Wife. It's nice to know that my favorite musicians watch the same television shows as me. When Bill Waterson finally gave an interview decades after Calvin and Hobbes's last strip, I was like what are these bullshit questions? I dont care about your stance on commercialism. Tell me some family stories. Tell me what you watch on television. What are your interests nowadays? Nope. They wake Waterson from the dead to ask him some stupid shit.

Although maybe I didnt read the full Watterson* interview and just a long snippet that the interviewing magazine was allowed to post online. Fuck you magazine for not giving me the juicy details up front! You expect me to rationally search out the full fledger when your clickbait doesnt deliver? No. Learn to interview better!

The start of the new season completely flew past me, I've got some catching up to do!

Yeah, still seems to be good. Trying to think who Peter's chief of staff is.
A lot of Machiavellian stuff going on with some characters.

Kalinda is almost not missed, but I guess she will be inevitably.