The Good Wife Season 3 (Premiers September 25)

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.

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.

No blonde investigator anymore? :(

that's what I was thinking. also cary #2 is out the window

Yeah not sure what happened to her xp

Vengeful pee-wee herman Eli is pretty fun to watch.

yeah Jess Weixler disappearing was really weird

really don't care about the Eli plot this season

Trying to think who Peter's chief of staff is.
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Couldn't quite place her earlier, she was the contact or department head in the Americans last time i saw her before this series

She's Margo Martindale. Recently she was in the Americans and also Justified.

but most notably as herself, Character Actress Margo Martindale, on Bojack Horseman.

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.

yeah there's a few too many dud story lines at the mo but just enough to keep me involved.

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?

It's nice that Grace is helping out with her mom's practice, but isn't she supposed to be in college?

the show could save a lot of money by just cutting loose the entire cast at Lockhart-Agos-whatever

They're obv gonna all get back together at some point tho

which is an awful idea since none of those characters have been associated with anything interesting in like a season and a half

Matthew Lillard was so, so awful, I think that's the first time I've ever rooted for Alicia to lose a case.

Finally caught up -- the bad episode I thought was before Matthew Lillard, the "Iowa" one. Like the writers purposefully tried to cram as many cliches into an episode as they could.

The music episode was nice if only for the return of Marissa.

still watchable but not nearly what it once was

Margulies hinted that this will be her (and thus, I have to imagine the) final season. We can only hope.

It reminds me a lot of how Buffy struggled in its last two seasons - running out of story and steam, random cast changes, and the shift to a more inactive, ineffectual protagonist (mirrored by increasingly ineffectual writing).

Would watch a Marissa and Diane spinoff though

Hah, I was thinking of JM leaving and renaming this show The Good Daughter and following Grace's trials and tribulations, but The Sassy Daughter with Marissa would be soooo A++.

haha i was thinking it should be named "the good daughter of the good wife" but decided not to post it.

anyway they should just give eli a lighter-touch prequel spinoff a la better call saul

only thing was it felt for a long time like it was headed to a destination & that the writers knew what that destination would be .... but now it's become increasingly clear that there was never a destination in mind

Just announced this is the last season. 9 episodes left!

It's time. I'll miss it a lot though! One of the most pleasurable TV shows ever, I think.