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
― Simon H., Thursday, 27 November 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
they could ride this character arc all the way to the white house tho
or at least the senate
― j., Thursday, 27 November 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
They should make her become Secretary of State so that they can show Madam Secretary how it's done.
― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Thursday, 27 November 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Thursday, 27 November 2014 02:45 (nine years ago) link
Love this show. EXCITEMENT AND KISSING.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 5 January 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Herc is even Hercier than he was on The Wire.
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Monday, 5 January 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Monday, 5 January 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
alflijlijliwjdliwjliwjl @ this latest ep
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
In a good way?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
yah just hair-pulling plot developments
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
yeah really love the way the resolved one plotline here while leaving an even bigger one wide open
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
Archie's accent getting Britisher the closer to the end.
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Monday, 12 January 2015 05:27 (nine years ago) link
Midseason finale not so good.
― Simon H., Monday, 12 January 2015 05:46 (nine years ago) link
That was a very comforting fairytale.
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Monday, 12 January 2015 05:59 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i commented on this upthread too. it's like she's stopped trying altogether!
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 12 January 2015 10:36 (nine years ago) link
"God, handsome men are so weak."
― Common Street Screwers (Leee), Monday, 16 March 2015 04:35 (nine years ago) link
Marissa is now the best character on the whole show
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Monday, 16 March 2015 04:42 (nine years ago) link
Agreed. I would totally let her get that tramp stamp.
― Common Street Screwers (Leee), Monday, 16 March 2015 04:49 (nine years ago) link
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.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
That one was good, but overall it's been pretty meh of late.
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
No thoughts on the last ep?
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 30 April 2015 00:08 (nine years ago) link
been saving em up since after the midseason break
― j., Thursday, 30 April 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
really underwhelming tbh, this season is maybe the least impressive to date
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 April 2015 02:12 (nine years ago) link
Can't help but feel like her losing her position as states attorney so fast was a bit of a cop out
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 30 April 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
woof. not my favorite season. definite step down from s.'s 4+5
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 05:41 (nine years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-good-wife-and-the-good-life
this is a good pt though
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 05:50 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 07:20 (nine years ago) link
I seem to say interesting a lot.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 07:21 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 May 2015 08:08 (nine years ago) link
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 Once-ler, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
The latest ep was really good
― Spottie, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 02:13 (eight years ago) link
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.
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 02:33 (eight years ago) link
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 Once-ler, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 02:45 (eight years ago) link
The start of the new season completely flew past me, I've got some catching up to do!
― :wq (Leee), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Yeah it will really depend on how these new characters develop. Her new PI has that perma-flirty face, he could be a good character/love interest. I like all the double/triple crossing stuff going on atm.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
No blonde investigator anymore? :(
― :wq (Leee), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
that's what I was thinking. also cary #2 is out the window
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
Yeah not sure what happened to her xp
― Spottie, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
Vengeful pee-wee herman Eli is pretty fun to watch.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
yeah Jess Weixler disappearing was really weird
really don't care about the Eli plot this season
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
Trying to think who Peter's chief of staff is. >Couldn't quite place her earlier, she was the contact or department head in the Americans last time i saw her before this series
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
She's Margo Martindale. Recently she was in the Americans and also Justified.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
but most notably as herself, Character Actress Margo Martindale, on Bojack Horseman.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
This show is way past its prime but still super enjoyable. This half-season has been a huuuge improvement on the last half of the sixth.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 12:15 (eight years ago) link
yeah there's a few too many dud story lines at the mo but just enough to keep me involved.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
Finally have gotten around to beginning this season, am enjoying the nu-Kalinda, her accent is definitely more convincing.
Looking forward to seeing where this Landau thing is going. Is there an online extra of Alicia and Veronica's cooking show scene in full splendor?
― :wq (Leee), Monday, 21 December 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link