The Good Wife Season 3 (Premiers September 25)

I'm not disputing that the show is built on soapy elements, but it's seemed more blatant about it lately, not just w/ the Alicia master plot getting hammier recently, but the Matt Czuchry stuff, bringing back maybe-wife-killer Dylan Baker super quickly (with a sexual harassment suit!)...they're just laying on the draaahma a little thicker than usual.

though thankfully the Sedaris/Cumming stuff is gone for now I guess? thank christ. (that was objectionable on diff't grounds.)

i thought the cary bit at the end this week was pretty righteous. until he had to say something about the perception his going unpunished would create. but still.

eli has really been diminished as a character since his initial run as a foul-mouthed mastermind operator.

maybe a different way to think about the proliferation of chaotic subplots is to look at the characters that are around and the relationships and interactions they can plausibly have given the larger-scale plot developments. the first season had a really marvelous nexus between alicia's work relationships and home relationships, and both of those were pretty complex and shifting (because of her prior relation to will, her parity with cary at the beginning, but her affinity with diane, at work; and for obvious reasons at home but especially in light of peter's mother's role in the family). alicia has moved in and out of proximity to different people since then, with the same kind of dynamic that's constrained by the relationships and power interests of the others, but it seems like the frames have rarely been drawn as definitely or as stably since, i dunno.

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apparently juliana margulies wears a wig on this show. i just thought she had been having her hair straightened for three years.

a couple great moments this ep, i thought. the scene with "look more worried" and the fakeout with the recusal.

Jackie is the evilest person on the show, btw.

Loved the episode. Interestingly, during the episode, I'd been wondering where Jackie had gotten to.

'so you're the woman... i'm the black.'

Posey and Cumming again -- awesome chemistry.

So much deliciousness this week.

now that was a proper episode.

The idea of someone taking the ankle clips was pretty bogus though. And how did they get back to their proper place (assuming they did) if the bike didn't get back? Who the hell wears ankle clips in the first place?

Well, when you take ALL of someone's clothing, I guess the ankle clips would go too.

What's wrong with Matthew Perry? He sounds terrible.

i can see how it's a matthew perry role but i want matthew perry out of my good wife

he is the worst

he's not even remotely good at being a slimy terrible person.

being totally insufferable is like the point of that character though.

he's not even insufferable, he's just a bunch of bleh, adding nothing

i thought it was great, i just want to punch him in the face while running away cringing

Yeah, I really liked the complete barefacedness of his lying. He's not as good a sleaze as Jackie, though.

jackie is a great villain of our time

Well, when you take ALL of someone's clothing, I guess the ankle clips would go too.― Johnny Fever

I meant before the murder. What kind of person "borrows" a bike and leg cuff clips

I didn't follow the case at all, waaay more interested in the campaign and Jackie subplots this week.

DNC dbag crushing Parker Posey's dreams has me considering voting for Ron Paul now.

that episode was pretty bad, but PREZ!

i don't know why the writing was so dumb and obvious. like when alicia turned to kalinda and was like. "lana's going to get you killed!" thanks for spelling that out, show.

Yeah, this wasn't great. Also, it's already Season Finale Time? WTF. I guess so, but it doesn't seem like it.

This season is 22 eps, whereas the first two were 23.

Lots of twists! None of them terribly good. Sorta dud for a season finale imo, but at least it's already been renewed iirc so that's a good thing.

There was nothing really cliffhanger-ish about the episode, just lots of threads left hanging. Felt more like the episode before a finale.

Premieres 9/30 (or 30/9 to you Euros/programmers).

'i don't like people who quit.'

Scene with Alicia at the office at night is DARK.

And... Uncle Junior! I mean, Judge Junior.

'i'm a blogger'

bodie!!!

'you said to be... entrepreneurial...'

Wee-Bey made a cameo, too, as a photograph.

Srsly tho Boadie wouldn't have tolerated the hijinx Dex was trying to pull.

Am I in need of some mansplanation on how professional women are capable of solidarity regardless of relatedness, or was Amanda Peet's character obviously the Colonel's daughter?

i thought you were a dude. you have to give the mansplanations if you are.

I need someone to explain mansplaining. #genderfail

<3 judge abernathy

Amanda Peet's character obviously the Colonel's daughter?

If that was the case, it passed me by. I thought it was just female solidarity because it's tough to be a woman in the military.

i forgot alicia even had kids

how is this the first time alicia ever heard of cutting?

haha yes i was seriously lolling at that. but the "they like how it feels to heal" line was pretty good. liked eli's manipulations too. seriously don't understand kalinda at all at this point.

she's in THRALL

and boooooring

the main plot was kind of truncated. i suppose that was just setup for something else later in the season, either an unexpected fail/win on the murder case, or something to do with judge hirsch?

I thought the case was essentially resolved (as a fail) with the adultery twist. I'd imagine the tension with judges is the sort of thing they'll pursue though. I like internal firm intrigue, but will v. the entire justice system really bores me.

Felt like they're going to resume the case next week or soon, while also involving some romantic intrigue between Amanda Peet and Peter, or at least more allegations of impropriety. We could call them Peeter!

alright, now THIS is a courtroom episode

those are pretty good sunglasses to wear for running someone down.

Otm x 2.

Kyle MacLachlan!