The Good Wife is back, she typed unenthusiastically
TGW 7.1 Bond
Jaunty opening, which wasn’t representative of what followed.
Alicia is now trying to shill for cases in bond court, although Matan was there on the other side. Of course he was.
Canning turned up to try to pressure Alicia into working for/with/for him. Eh, I remember when he was going to work with Martha Plimton’s character. This was the plotline I found myself following the least.
Alicia deciding Peter should run if he wanted and the ensuing scheming was quite funny to watch the day after of the Iowa result.
They brought in someone new for Eli to butt heads against.
Grace playing secretary was good.
Obviously, one doesn’t want David Lee to win a case on principle.
Eli and Peter broke up. TITLES. Yet, I found it underwhelming.
The return of Cary, looking at the life choices that lumped him together with Howard (instead of less ambitious associates of his own age). Also Diane was back but not doing much except trying to manage David Lee and dropping hints to Alicia.
A nice bit of female solidarity as the Bar Associate Lady recognised some grit in Alicia.
Cue Alicia being at the other end of the Whatever The Firm Is Called Now’s experts, but using the speed reading skills she’s acquired at bond court. A quirky judge, played by Jane Curtin, for whom I have a Third Rock from The Sun soft spot. She got to lampshade the experts that the lawyers and be a contrast to the grumpy judge.
Oh, Cary, no, stop trying to be down with your employees. (And really, this feels like a very broad-brush development for him.)
I liked Nora turning up to cheer up Eli with phone calls.
Eli trying to be Alicia’s chief of staff was predictable, for both intrinsic and extrinsic reasons.
Cary’s plotline made me miss Will, basically.
While making Lucca the fish out of water in Alicia’s milieu and then the plucky lawyer who could was a decent intro, she is basically filling a Kalinda-shaped gap, while I suppose the question is whether Grace is going to decide to become a lawyer or the exact opposite from seeing it all close up.
I don’t care if Alicia learns/decides to stop apologising, because any ‘development’ is always going to be within the same box that they’ve boxed her in. She and Eli choosing to butt heads with Ruth and thus, by proxy, Peter, when they could both just...walk away from him, is typical.
Six years’ investment, but I don’t think I’m going to get much out of sticking with it, not based on this episode. It’s a bitter shadow of itself. I may have to wean myself off. There are a lot of other shows I’m watching/catching up on at present, so it might turn out to be easy to just drop it.
In other news, I saw a trailer for The Night Manager - Tom Hiddlestone on the Beeb, playing a spy in a John LaCarre adaptation featuring Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman and Tom Hallander. VERY EXCITING. No date, as yet.
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/219301.html.
Jaunty opening, which wasn’t representative of what followed.
Alicia is now trying to shill for cases in bond court, although Matan was there on the other side. Of course he was.
Canning turned up to try to pressure Alicia into working for/with/for him. Eh, I remember when he was going to work with Martha Plimton’s character. This was the plotline I found myself following the least.
Alicia deciding Peter should run if he wanted and the ensuing scheming was quite funny to watch the day after of the Iowa result.
They brought in someone new for Eli to butt heads against.
Grace playing secretary was good.
Obviously, one doesn’t want David Lee to win a case on principle.
Eli and Peter broke up. TITLES. Yet, I found it underwhelming.
The return of Cary, looking at the life choices that lumped him together with Howard (instead of less ambitious associates of his own age). Also Diane was back but not doing much except trying to manage David Lee and dropping hints to Alicia.
A nice bit of female solidarity as the Bar Associate Lady recognised some grit in Alicia.
Cue Alicia being at the other end of the Whatever The Firm Is Called Now’s experts, but using the speed reading skills she’s acquired at bond court. A quirky judge, played by Jane Curtin, for whom I have a Third Rock from The Sun soft spot. She got to lampshade the experts that the lawyers and be a contrast to the grumpy judge.
Oh, Cary, no, stop trying to be down with your employees. (And really, this feels like a very broad-brush development for him.)
I liked Nora turning up to cheer up Eli with phone calls.
Eli trying to be Alicia’s chief of staff was predictable, for both intrinsic and extrinsic reasons.
Cary’s plotline made me miss Will, basically.
While making Lucca the fish out of water in Alicia’s milieu and then the plucky lawyer who could was a decent intro, she is basically filling a Kalinda-shaped gap, while I suppose the question is whether Grace is going to decide to become a lawyer or the exact opposite from seeing it all close up.
I don’t care if Alicia learns/decides to stop apologising, because any ‘development’ is always going to be within the same box that they’ve boxed her in. She and Eli choosing to butt heads with Ruth and thus, by proxy, Peter, when they could both just...walk away from him, is typical.
Six years’ investment, but I don’t think I’m going to get much out of sticking with it, not based on this episode. It’s a bitter shadow of itself. I may have to wean myself off. There are a lot of other shows I’m watching/catching up on at present, so it might turn out to be easy to just drop it.
In other news, I saw a trailer for The Night Manager - Tom Hiddlestone on the Beeb, playing a spy in a John LaCarre adaptation featuring Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman and Tom Hallander. VERY EXCITING. No date, as yet.
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/219301.html.