TMBG! I knew they reminded me of something. That actually makes me feel more tolerant about them, although, yeah, overall, I'd rather watch a scene of Delroy Lindo eating lunch
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
Felt like reviving this thread to discuss the Kings' Evil since it has so much Good Wife DNA despite the ostensible genre switch: Mike Colter! that score! technology! child-rearing! courtroom scenes!
I wish they hadn't felt the need to spell it out, but the conclusion to the fourth episode was genuinely ghoulish in a way I wasn't sure they had the nerve for
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 October 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
I haven't seen any of the Good Wife and only seen S1 of the Good Fight (which I really like) but I'm still unsure about Evil
I like the procedural elements and the whole element of trying to reconcile faith v science but I do not care a single bit about the characters' personal lives (which I get is part and parcel of these kind of shows but still) and that recurring character who plays a prosecutor (?) against the protagonists or something who I guess is a demon or Satan in disguise or something but is so cartoonishly evil that he comes from another show entirely idk
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 24 October 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
I'm not totally sold myself, but it's endearingly weird and still seems to be figuring out its limits.
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 October 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
Two eps in a row where the idiot grandmother gets her idiot grandkids into trouble
Is this gonna be a recurring thing
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 25 October 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link
Another plot element it shares with TGW!
― Simon H., Friday, 25 October 2019 03:07 (four years ago) link
I really cannot stress enough that Evil has been flying under the radar for how thoroughly weird it is. Maybe it's not quite as weird as Braindead, but it's awfully close, and unlike that one it's gotten renewed. Anyway, I'll take it over The Good Fight any day.
― Simon H., Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
Okay, I didn't expect the incel plot line to resolve itself that way lol
I'll give the show this - things never resolve the way you'd expect
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 6 December 2019 04:21 (four years ago) link
The twelfth episode, which aired last week, was mostly not very good, but LMAO at the closing scene. Who is letting them get away with this shit? (I mean this lovingly.)
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 31 January 2020 03:15 (four years ago) link
This season of The Good Fight is fantastic so far
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link
That's one way to end an episode/season!!!
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 29 May 2020 03:20 (four years ago) link
I am a few episodes into S4 of The Good Wife and Mr Veg and I are both unanimous in being over Alicia and her obtuse uppityness.Also I hate her idiot childrenChristine Baranski’s hair gets more perfect every season god she’s the fucking bestmainly thoughI am TIRED of Kalinda wearing GO GO BOOTS and LEATHER JACKETS and generally dressing like a 90s NIGHT CLUB PROMOTER. They have signified her edgy otherness to death dear god will her sexy pirate costume ever end. And this stupid dom/sub storyline with her creepy-ass husband is so dumb She deserves so much better! This show is so weird why do i like it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 May 2020 07:22 (four years ago) link
That was absolutely the worst season. After that it gets good again.
― trishyb, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
almost everything after s5 is the worst. s6 features maybe the single worst ep they ever did
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 29 May 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
haa which one? i dont remember specifics any more about this show.
― Spottie, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
the episode that incorporates/references the Michael Brown verdict
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 29 May 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
i gotta rewatch now.
― Spottie, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
there was not a single current topic they were worse equipped to make an episode about
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 29 May 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
Lol/smdh at the title and concept of the last ep of The Good Fight
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 29 May 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
The seventh/final season of Good Wife (I want to say it’s the nsa one but I can’t remember) is a pretty good rally. S5 starts great but then loses it big time. Sixth season’s a mess all round, with weird parallels to S6 of Buffy
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 29 May 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
I loved season 2 of good fight but I had to bail for s3 because I was so tense about when those fucking dreadful animations and monologues were going to start
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 29 May 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
yeah and the musical numbers
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Friday, 29 May 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
for lawyers, those characters had great voices
I don't remember which season of good wife it was but the Noth running in Iowa plotline was especially dire
I remember nothing good about s6 or 7 tbh. You're better off pretending the s5 finale is just a cliffhanger ending.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 29 May 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xyqsmEfcP4
― wearaew (FlopsyDuck), Friday, 29 May 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
Oh Jesus, yes, you're right. I'd completely forgotten about that.
― trishyb, Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
With good reason. I was recapping the show at the time and struggled to convey my disgust.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
So-so episodes never bothered me because I liked the show. I always thought this thread was too heavy on disgust.
I'm encouraged to watch the spin-off by the seldom praise it has received in this thread.
― wearaew (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
If you enjoy watching the good wife and you don't mind its sillier moments, you will probably also enjoy the good fight
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
The first season is fine, the second season is almost as good as Good Wife in its peak, the third season I’ll return to eventually
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 30 May 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
I might do a rewatch of just s5
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 30 May 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
OK, after reading a description of the Good Fight's s3 "finale' I might have to give it another try starting from s2
It tickles me that the Kings are Epstein obsessives
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
Watched a couple of s5. What I really miss about this show is
1. The dialogue, which asks "what if Whedon and Sorkin didn't suck"2. those obscure bits of absurd but real legal minutiae that get sprinkled liberally into every episode and blow your mind for a few minutes, like House only interesting
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 8 June 2020 01:24 (four years ago) link
Why, the Good Fight doesn't have those two things?
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 8 June 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
I found s1 joyless and rose leslie fatally miscast, too annoyed throughout to enjoy things
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 8 June 2020 02:19 (four years ago) link
is there a podcast where woke lawyers recap the good wife
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 8 June 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
Well, the most recent season does not have Rose Leslie
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 8 June 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
season 3 just started in the uk. halfway through first episode and part of me wants this to continue and part of wants it to stop.
― koogs, Friday, 19 March 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
anyone else other than Simon watch Evil? S2 starts streaming today
lol'd at the bad dubbing for the Shocking Swear Word they used now that they're not encumbered by network standards
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 20 June 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
way more people should be watching this hilarious and batshit television series imo. michael emerson having the time of his goddamn life, even more than on lost
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Hilarious and batshit in a good way?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
yes, though it doesn't reveal quite how weird it's willing to get until, idk, maybe 3/4 of the way through s1
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
Simon is making it sound like those "I swear it gets good later!" shows that are mostly prominent amongst prestige TV but Evil is great all the way through imo and is worth trudging through even if you're not impressed by it at first
one of the things I admire the most about this show, which I think may be a thing with all of the Kings' shows, is that storylines never resolve themselves the way you'd predict, I wouldn't say their storylines are unpredictable thrill rides through and through, but the resolutions are never quite what I expect, especially with one near the end of S1, and I bet Simon knows which one I'm talking about
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
Sounds great! Enjoy their shows but thought TGF lost its way in S3 (after only finding it in S2)
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
Watched three episodes. It's fun! Also it continually skirts with badness but somehow that's part of the fun too.
Some of the performances (e.g. Colter and Emerson) are enjoyable but verrrry unconvincing - but it's almost like the bad acting amps up the feeling that No One Is Who They Seem.
No animations or musical numbers or monologues please.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 2 July 2021 12:30 (two years ago) link
Obsessed with Evil now. The first season was a bit so-so, but the second season is so fantastically creepy and bonkers, love it.
the elevator episode fucked me up.
― Roz, Monday, 15 November 2021 07:50 (two years ago) link
aww fuck, upcoming season of Evil will be its last :(
― Murgatroid, Friday, 16 February 2024 01:23 (four months ago) link
boo
― Roz, Friday, 16 February 2024 02:30 (four months ago) link
I need to catch up on this! I only got halfway through the first season, not sure why I stopped, it was a lot of fun.
I ditched Good Fight during the third season (musical cartoons were too cringe and I felt tense about when they were gonna turn up).
And there's a new spin-off procedural show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ2WX99QXXY
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 16 February 2024 12:13 (four months ago) link