The Good Wife Season 3 (Premiers September 25)

yesss

some of those lawyers have great voices, they should have gone into musical theatre or something

the 'you can't vote in that t-shirt' punchline made me lol.

(i think the uk is some weeks behind. um, imdb seems to have the uk air dates on it.)

How's this season been? The extra theatricality wasn't working for me. And the fucking songs!

the songs are ok imo in a satirical, tmbg / i'm a bill kind of way but i'd rather just see more of the cast tbh

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

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

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

I'm not totally sold myself, but it's endearingly weird and still seems to be figuring out its limits.

Two eps in a row where the idiot grandmother gets her idiot grandkids into trouble

Is this gonna be a recurring thing

Another plot element it shares with TGW!

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.

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

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.)

This season of The Good Fight is fantastic so far

That's one way to end an episode/season!!!

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 children
Christine Baranski’s hair gets more perfect every season god she’s the fucking best
mainly though
I 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

That was absolutely the worst season. After that it gets good again.

almost everything after s5 is the worst. s6 features maybe the single worst ep they ever did

haa which one? i dont remember specifics any more about this show.

the episode that incorporates/references the Michael Brown verdict

i gotta rewatch now.

there was not a single current topic they were worse equipped to make an episode about

Lol/smdh at the title and concept of the last ep of The Good Fight

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

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

yeah and the musical numbers

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xyqsmEfcP4

the episode that incorporates/references the Michael Brown verdict

Oh Jesus, yes, you're right. I'd completely forgotten about that.

With good reason. I was recapping the show at the time and struggled to convey my disgust.

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.

If you enjoy watching the good wife and you don't mind its sillier moments, you will probably also enjoy the good fight

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

I might do a rewatch of just s5

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

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

Why, the Good Fight doesn't have those two things?

I found s1 joyless and rose leslie fatally miscast, too annoyed throughout to enjoy things

is there a podcast where woke lawyers recap the good wife

Well, the most recent season does not have Rose Leslie

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.

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

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

Hilarious and batshit in a good way?

yes, though it doesn't reveal quite how weird it's willing to get until, idk, maybe 3/4 of the way through s1

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

Sounds great! Enjoy their shows but thought TGF lost its way in S3 (after only finding it in S2)