The Good Wife
So it's been a few days, so everyone who was only an episode behind has hopefully caught up by now, but those of you who are more than one episode behind on The Good Wife? You probably want to catch up now. Especially since it looks like even the episode blurbs for the next episode are spoilery. Major, major spoilers happened on Sunday night's episode, which makes it that much more annoying that the show is on Sunday nights and therefore frequently starts late due to sports events - it started around 45 minutes late Sunday night. I usually DVR it, especially with Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Cosmos conflicting with it, so my solution lately has been to DVR both it and The Mentalist even though I no longer watch The Mentalist just to be sure I don't miss anything. Annoying, though.
So Will Gardner is dead. The show runners did a really impressive job of not letting Josh Charles' decision to leave get out. As far as I can tell, no one had heard anything before the episode aired Sunday night. Even the promos didn't give anything away. I mean, they were promoting it heavily as a major episode, but misleadingly so you thought it was all going to be about the election scandal instead. In retrospect, it's obvious within the episode because Will had meaningful moments with Diane, Alicia and Kalinda in the episode, but during the unspoiled first pass it just seemed like your average episode. Also in retrospect you could sort of tell that Will's client was slowly but quietly losing it. I suppose we'll never really find out whether he was really guilty, because now he's really really guilty for something else. I suspect he was guiltier than Will was acting like he was; I'm not sure whether Will actually thought he wasn't guilty or whether he was just acting that way as part of his defense strategy. Certainly Kalinda & Diane seemed dubious about his innocence.
It will be interesting to see how everyone reacts to this, particularly Alicia because like everyone else I pretty much expected Alicia to get back with Will at some point (whether I wanted them to or not, which I mostly didn't). And now she'll never have the chance to truly reconcile with him (which I did want, because I always preferred them to be friends rather than romantic). I imagine that's going to eat away at her.
It looks like the prosecutor in the case is set to become a regular (or semi-regular), which is good because I liked him. He's played by Matthew Goode, who's been in mostly British TV such as Death Comes to Pemberley, Dancing on the Edge (with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Angel Coulby) and Brideshead Revisited.
So yeah. Kudos to The Good Wife team both for keeping this very much a surprise, and unlike Teen Wolf, not allowing the PR department to blare the news about the "surprise death" so much all season to the point that by the time it happened it had very little meaning. And of course it was much more well-written, besides.
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So Will Gardner is dead. The show runners did a really impressive job of not letting Josh Charles' decision to leave get out. As far as I can tell, no one had heard anything before the episode aired Sunday night. Even the promos didn't give anything away. I mean, they were promoting it heavily as a major episode, but misleadingly so you thought it was all going to be about the election scandal instead. In retrospect, it's obvious within the episode because Will had meaningful moments with Diane, Alicia and Kalinda in the episode, but during the unspoiled first pass it just seemed like your average episode. Also in retrospect you could sort of tell that Will's client was slowly but quietly losing it. I suppose we'll never really find out whether he was really guilty, because now he's really really guilty for something else. I suspect he was guiltier than Will was acting like he was; I'm not sure whether Will actually thought he wasn't guilty or whether he was just acting that way as part of his defense strategy. Certainly Kalinda & Diane seemed dubious about his innocence.
It will be interesting to see how everyone reacts to this, particularly Alicia because like everyone else I pretty much expected Alicia to get back with Will at some point (whether I wanted them to or not, which I mostly didn't). And now she'll never have the chance to truly reconcile with him (which I did want, because I always preferred them to be friends rather than romantic). I imagine that's going to eat away at her.
It looks like the prosecutor in the case is set to become a regular (or semi-regular), which is good because I liked him. He's played by Matthew Goode, who's been in mostly British TV such as Death Comes to Pemberley, Dancing on the Edge (with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Angel Coulby) and Brideshead Revisited.
So yeah. Kudos to The Good Wife team both for keeping this very much a surprise, and unlike Teen Wolf, not allowing the PR department to blare the news about the "surprise death" so much all season to the point that by the time it happened it had very little meaning. And of course it was much more well-written, besides.
This entry was originally posted at http://beck-liz.dreamwidth.org/1020510.html. You may comment there using OpenID, or you may comment here.
have commented there.