The Good Wife Season 3 (Premiers September 25)

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)

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.

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.

aww fuck, upcoming season of Evil will be its last :(

boo

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

Hope it’s good.

Absolutely adore Carrie Preston and Elsbeth on the Good Wife/Good Fight and I’ll prob check a couple of episodes out but she feels like a character that is best in small doses/as a regular guest star, not sure if I wanna watch a whole season.

"Every generation gets the Columbo it deserves." - Bob Marley

"The first episode of Columbo only had 10 million viewers, but everyone who saw it formed a detective agency."
--Gandhi

i do love elsbeth. if i remember correctly she is simply "quirky" and doesn't have any real DSM-5 detective skills? or PTSD or anything like that? i like that new Will Trent show but it seems like they really threw the book at him as far as trauma and spectrum stuff. it is kind of refreshing to watch someone solve crimes who is just super-smart and having fun being underestimated as opposed to someone having a lifetime of pain behind them. no offense to people in pain...but it does feel like a cliche ever since Monk. and all those British shows where every cop is living under the burden of 10 lifetimes of fuckedupness.
i could be wrong though and maybe elsbeth was diagnosed in some early episode of Good Wife. been years since i watched them.

I think it's the same shtick as Monk (neurodiversity-as-secret-weapon) minus the murder backstory. Wonder how that plays in 2024 vs. 2009 when The Good wife debuted.

Preston is such a good actor though (and also v cute IMO, irrelevantly)